Eventually I was the train driver. I started out cleaning the engines, then I became a shunter coupling the wagons up together, gradually I became a senior one of them before progressing to driver. I became a driver and was doing that for about ten years. I loved it, I used to be happy going to work, I had loads of friends there and we were a jolly crowd and we had a laugh. There would be 3 men to each locomotive. It would take 2 hours to pick up your train inside the works, get the ladles, and then heading out towards the foreshore you would have to cross the road. Do you know where spiller's works are? Across the dock, you used to cross the main road there with the train and then out to the foreshore and then once you are around that ground you were on British Rail Tracks. Then you had to find out where to tip the stuff. By the time you got back to the works that was half of your shift gone. So say you were doing a 6-2 shift by 11am you would have done your first run so you would get the train ready for the next shift to come in and drive back out to the foreshore. You were on the go all the time but you didn't have to break you neck.