AN AMATEUR ENGINE DRIVER

New Zealand Tablet, 11 January 1912, Page 54

AN AMATEUR ENGINE DRIVER

;.;. The railway trouble in ■ Scotland has recalled some stories respecting the North' British railway strike /of twelve years ago. In the emergency an amateur engine driver had been ; put ;on duty on a branch line. At one station ;he . ran his train a considerable way past the platform; stopping, at last, he backed,' and went as far beyond at the other end...__.'■- y.: ;. ,„ y- ;:. The old porter, who had remained loyal, eyed the proceedings with- cynical amusement. ' Stop whaur ye are,' he shouted, and we'll shift .the station for ye.'