Re: Extant Relics

In article <4df713f756dhwild@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, David H Wild
<URL:mailto:dhwild@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

Many years ago I was involved with the computerisation of the Accountant's
Rolling Stock Library at Derby.

Presumably that was in the days before acronyms were invented. SCNR ;-)

While TOPS recorded the operational aspects of wagons this recorded things
like build date, purchase price and maintenance cost limits. We were rather
surprised to find two two-year old vehicles with grease axle boxes. It
turned out that they were match wagons for a Civil Engineers crane that
lived in a PW yard, and were actually 102 years old - but the "year built"
field had only two digits.

There's also an apocryphal tale of how, towards the end of the implementation
of TOPS, a heck of a lot of old wagons ended up in Northeast England. Sorry I
can't remember the details offhand, but they were very funny indeed.

(David - every good wish to you and yours - long time no speak!)

All the best,

Iain

'You need to be very careful when drawing up a specification, otherwise you
risk getting what you ask for rather than what you want.'

--

Iain Logan, Langholm, Dumfriesshire
<http://homepages.enterprise.net/iainlogan/>
<mailto:iainlogan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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