(e) To keep his van clean and smart, washing it when required.
(f) To carefully observe such of the Railway Regulations as apply to the brakesman’s work.
SIGNALLING REGULATIONS.
61. The engine-driver shall give three short whistles when he requires the brake-van brakes to be put down, and one short whistle when they are to be released. When he requires facing points to be set for the main line he shall give two, and for a branch or siding three medium whistles. A whistle continued for several minutes is a call for assistance, and workmen within hearing should at once proceed to the spot.
62. A red light is a signal to stop; a green light, to proceed cautiously; and a white light, to go a-head. In shunting, a green light, if waved up and down, is a signal to move a-head; if from side to side, to back.
63. It is important that all persons having to do with shunting operations should understand that if an engine is either in contact with no vehicles, or has vehicles both in front and behind, it is said to go a-head when it moves chimney first, and to back when it moves fire-box first. If in contact with vehicles at one end only, it is said to go a-head when it draws and to back when it pushes such vehicles, without regard to its own direction.
D.
The following rather neat parody, which appeared in a London evening paper at the time of the passing of the Light Railways Act, expresses a very reasonable doubt, in which I fully share, as to the specially beneficial effect of the measure on agriculture. Fortunately, the Act has been taken very quietly, and such schemes as have been promoted will, for the most part, be of considerable general advantage. Certainly there are some cases in which farmers would be the gainers by a light railway, but these are an infinitesimal proportion of their whole number.
THAT TIGHT LITTLE, LIGHT LITTLE
“Non si male nunc et olim
Sic erit.”