What a dump!

[hq1hitchin]

Anyone care to guess where this hovel was? Certainly didn't get many visitors, they probably had too much sense....

[Ferrybridge Flyer]

It may be a hovel hq,but i can imagine someone buying it,and converting it into a house for sale.They seem to put houses everywhere,so why not!

[hq1hitchin]

It's not there now and I doubt even the keenest type would have wanted to live there - Another clue then - in the words of a local song , '.... if it wasn't for the 'ouses in between.....' so where was it - anyone guess?


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[AndyG]

Complete guess - initially somewhere in Glasgow but as this is LNER somewhere in Gateshead?
I'm afraid I don't recognise the song.

Andy

[52A]

Doesn't ring a bell with me in this part of the world. Could still be in use, Notwork Fail provide accommodation to that high standard for most of their staff.

[hq1hitchin]

Doesn't ring a bell with me in this part of the world. Could still be in use, Notwork Fail provide accommodation to that high standard for most of their staff.

Portacabins seem the favourite accomodation for that outfit, witness the shanties at Woking or the grandly named James Forbes House (actually Portacabin City in Ewer St, London SE)
Anyway you blokes missed nothing by not signing the road to Temple Mills Marshalling Yard, London E10, the only place I've worked where supervisors and chargemen slugged it out with knives and broken bottles. All gone now. The place shown is the Manor End cabin, which was about in the middle of the yard.

Here's a pic of the main yard taken from a lighting tower (I didn't have a parachute, either!), showing the Manor End with the Control Tower and hump in the distance. Hackney Marshes, which is where the song comes from 'Wiv a ladder and some glasses, You could see to 'Ackney Marshes, if it wasn't for the 'ouses in between' not far away on the left.

[Bullhead]

Complete guess - initially somewhere in Glasgow but as this is LNER somewhere in Gateshead?

The LNER was extensively represented in Glasgow - for example, one of the two remaining passenger termini in the city (Queen Street) is ex-NBR/LNER, as is a substantial portion of the North Clyde suburban system between Airdrie and Milngavie/Balloch/Helensburgh.

[giner]

Doesn't ring a bell with me in this part of the world. Could still be in use, Notwork Fail provide accommodation to that high standard for most of their staff.

Portacabins seem the favourite accomodation for that outfit, witness the shanties at Woking or the grandly named James Forbes House (actually Portacabin City in Ewer St, London SE)
Anyway you blokes missed nothing by not signing the road to Temple Mills Marshalling Yard, London E10, the only place I've worked where supervisors and chargemen slugged it out with knives and broken bottles. All gone now. The place shown is the Manor End cabin, which was about in the middle of the yard.

Here's a pic of the main yard taken from a lighting tower (I didn't have a parachute, either!), showing the Manor End with the Control Tower and hump in the distance. Hackney Marshes, which is where the song comes from 'Wiv a ladder and some glasses, You could see to 'Ackney Marshes, if it wasn't for the 'ouses in between' not far away on the left.

Stone the flippin' crows, guvnor! I knew it was dahn the smoke, dittn' I? I was finkin' it was Stratford or somewhere rahnd er . . . Bow Locks.

[hq1hitchin]

Stone the flippin' crows, guvnor! I knew it was dahn the smoke, dittn' I? I was finkin' it was Stratford or somewhere rahnd er . . . Bow Locks.[/quote]

Leave it out, John, even if we did come under the auspices of the Depot Manager, Stratford - I doubt either of us (remember the High St in Stevenage Old Town?) would have been prepared for this devil's cauldron, and not a barrel organ or Dick Van Whatsiname to be seen! Did have a Train Preparer who in a previous life was on a charge for damaging an 'East Anglian' headboard, mind. Hope the weather is ok now, giner

[giner]

Your train preparer must have been an 'ammers fan miffed by a defeat at the hands of Norwich City.

Stevenage High St. I'm well acquainted with. I'm in Stevenage at the moment on a short break and will be at one of my old haunts (if they still exist) on Monday to see 60163 come through on her way norf.

Cheers, giner.