Signalbox at Enfield Lock station.

[locojoe]

This photo shows the old signalbox at Enfield Lock station. Most of the stuff shown is now just a memory (see bottom photo)
Gone is the old signalbox where we would give the signalman a wave whilst on the Hertford East runs, gone is is the nice canopy and the footbridges. The old style crossing gates which were worked by the signalman turning a big wheel inside the signalbox have been replaced by modern remote controlled drop down gates which as we all know are an accident waiting to happen. Some things change for the worse. Loads of other things have gone including waiting rooms and toilets.

I can see this station from my back bedroom window.

[ccmmick]

Very interesting locojoe
You will have to come to Cornwall time stands still down here it's the same now as when Brunel laid the tracks.

ccmmick.

[locojoe]

Originally Posted by ccmmick

Very interesting locojoe
You will have to come to Cornwall time stands still down here it's the same now as when Brunel laid the tracks.

ccmmick.

Hi commick how about a couple of Cornwall station photos as a taster. I'd love to go to Cornwall as it's the only English County I've never visited but at the moment health problems will not permit.

[ccmmick]

I will put a couple on for you now the weather is a bit better.
When i go to Truro i will take a picture of the footbridge where back in second world war a German fighter plane came down and shot bullets into Truro station the bullet holes are still there in the footbridge to this day.

ccmmick.

[locojoe]

Originally Posted by ccmmick

I will put a couple on for you now the weather is a bit better.
When i go to Truro i will take a picture of the footbridge where back in second world war a German fighter plane came down and shot bullets into Truro station the bullet holes are still there in the footbridge to this day.

ccmmick.

I'd like to see the Truro Station photos commick, thanks.
If the German fighter planes bullets had hit a British Railways pork pie they would have bounced off eh.

[ccmmick]

Originally Posted by locojoe

I'd like to see the Truro Station photos commick, thanks.
If the German fighter planes bullets had hit a British Railway pork pie they would have bounced off eh.

There is story about pork pies but i think i will get told off if i put it on here
i will try and keep it clean.
Billy the station master at Bodmin Road had a pork pie every day for his dinner
and Billy was a funny old bugger, so one day one of the porter's got Mary who wasn't quiet all there and rubbed a pork pie under Mary's skirt then put the pork pie back in the buffet in comes Billy for his dinner everyone was in on it and watched Billy eat his dinner .
I didn't do him any harm he lived right up into his 90s.

ccmmick.

[locojoe]

Originally Posted by ccmmick

There is story about pork pies but i think i will get told off if i put it on here
i will try and keep it clean.
Billy the station master at Bodmin Road had a pork pie every day for his dinner
and Billy was a funny old bugger, so one day one of the porter's got Mary who wasn't quiet all there and rubbed a pork pie under Mary's skirt then put the pork pie back in the buffet in comes Billy for his dinner everyone was in on it and watched Billy eat his dinner .
I didn't do him any harm he lived right up into his 90s.

ccmmick.

Thar's a good un commick.
Here's one.
A pork pie walks into a pub and the barmaid says sorry we dont serve food in here.

[ccmmick]

Originally Posted by locojoe

Thar's a good un commick.
Here's one.
A pork pie walks into a pub and the barmaid says sorry we dont serve food in here.

Good one here's another one.

A man walks into a bar with a pork pie on his head.
He orders a drink and the barmaid asks why are you wearing a pork pie on your head.
The man replies it's a long-running family tradition we always wear pork pies on our heads on tuesday.
The barmaid remarks then I have some bad news for you it's wednesday
The man says oh dear i must look like a real fool .

ccmmick.

[Dave Rowland]

Originally Posted by locojoe

A pork pie walks into a pub and the barmaid says sorry we dont serve food in here.

A man walks into a pub, carrying an octopus, and orders a pint for himself and a half for the octopus.
"No chance" says the barman, "You can't come in here with that octopus."
"Just one moment, my good man; this is no ordinary octopus - he can play any musical instrument you care to give him." says the man.
"Tosh. There's a piano over there - if it can play that, I'll pay for your drinks, but I don't believe it for one minute."
The man takes the octopus over to the piano, puts it on the stool, and opens up the piano lid. The octopus then proceeds to play astonishing piano.
The barman's very surpised at this, and stumps up for the drinks, then says "I bet it can't play my trumpet...", and rushes off to get it. The octopus then plays 'The Flight of The Bumble Bee' without a fault. Once again, the barman provides the drinks. A chap sitting in the corner opens a guitar case, and takes out an acoustic guitar, on which the octopus plays expertly in a number of styles. More drinks. Over the space of the next hour, with the help of musical locals, the octopus proves his dexterity on the harmonica, a violin, a kazoo, paper & comb, a trombone, and an accordian, all of which produce more drinks from the barman, who thinks he's been taken for a ride somehow. "Hang on," he says, "I'll fetch my mate Angus." Off he goes, and returns with the Scotsman, who has with him a set of bagpipes.
"Let's see you deal with THIS!" says the barman.
The octopus picks up the bagpipes, wraps its tentacles around it, and for the next ten minutes produces nothing more than ghastly wailing and screeching noises. "I KNEW it!" yells the barman, "I KNEW it was all a swindle! Drink up & clear off!" The bloke and his octopus drink up and leave, and sit dejectedly on the wall outside the pub. After an ominous silence for several minutes, the man turns to the octopus and says " What the hell were you doing? We were onto a good thing in there - free beer! And you have to cock it all up!"
"YOU wanna complain!" says the octopus; " TEN MINUTES I was struggling in there with that thing, and I couldn't even get its knickers off!"

[ccmmick]

Very funny Dave
The one i like is Tommy Cooper's old joke.

Man goes in fish shop with a fish under his arm
He say's to the man behind the counter have you got any fish cakes the man replies no we haven't
Oh thats a shame he says it's his birthday today .

ccmmick.