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Bullocks stop train. 9 Nov 1954. Two bullocks escaped from the Harringay cattle dock and stopped all train traffic on the Great Northern Line

Post number 73 on this page.

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jwealleans wrote:Post number 73 on this page.

Hi jwealleans" Thanks for pointing that out but it's easy to miss other posts.

locojoe wrote:

jwealleans wrote:Post number 73 on this page.

Hi jwealleans" Thanks for pointing that out but it's easy to miss other posts.

Something which is not surprising when the "other posts" are on a completely different website.

strang steel wrote:

locojoe wrote:

jwealleans wrote:Post number 73 on this page.

Hi jwealleans" Thanks for pointing that out but it's easy to miss other posts.

Something which is not surprising when the "other posts" are on a completely different website.

What a very nice chap you are jwealleans"

A question that I have, locojoe.

How did you find that newspaper cutting?

Was it simply by accident, or were you searching for specific keywords?

strang steel wrote:A question that I have, locojoe.

How did you find that newspaper cutting?

Was it simply by accident, or were you searching for specific keywords?

Hello John I get my info from various places same as everyone else on this forum. Can't remember where I first saw this newspaper cutting, perhaps "The Guardian".

Hi Joe,

I'd recently read that thread and your post reminded me of it. The whole thread is full of railwaymen reminiscing, though all post-steam (and some still serving). I thought you might enjoy it.

It also put me in mind of how far most people are from animals these days; in the days when cattle traffic was at a peak, many people had worked on the land or with livestock. It was no problem for railway staff to empty a cattle wagon if a beast was down. These days most people (myself included) wouldn't have a clue.

jwealleans wrote:Hi Joe,

I'd recently read that thread and your post reminded me of it. The whole thread is full of railwaymen reminiscing, though all post-steam (and some still serving). I thought you might enjoy it.

It also put me in mind of how far most people are from animals these days; in the days when cattle traffic was at a peak, many people had worked on the land or with livestock. It was no problem for railway staff to empty a cattle wagon if a beast was down. These days most people (myself included) wouldn't have a clue.

Hi jwealleans" being a townie I havent a clue concerning cattle. I never worked cattle traffic but I've probably had a few old cows travelling as passengers.

locojoe wrote:

strang steel wrote:A question that I have, locojoe.

How did you find that newspaper cutting?

Was it simply by accident, or were you searching for specific keywords?

Hello John I get my info from various places same as everyone else on this forum. Can't remember where I first saw this newspaper cutting, perhaps "The Guardian".

Thanks locojoe.

I was hoping you might say you had discovered a searchable database of past newspapers. That would be marvellous, but I think that they would charge for that sort of thing.

A number of papers do run an archive service but only as far as the digital goes back.
A website I use to keep an eye out for anything out of the ordinary is Britarch which trawls the newspapers for headlines vaguely connected with Archaeology.
Railway and Transport items come up frequently.

http://www.archaeologyuk.org/archaeologylatest
Click on the News from UK media to get the headlines.

or join the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London but caution keep to the subject you are researching its very easy to lose ones self in newsprint.