Re: Losing wagons

On 26 Jan, 13:30, "Brian Robertson" <conceptcraftsfram...@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Before the advent of TOPS, did wagons ever get lost in the system, only to
be discovered months later tucked away at the back of a marshalling yard?

Brian.

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Brian,

It wasn't just wagons that went missing - loco's did too.

With the "inbalance" of traffic flows control offices had a daily
balance of locomotives - with the result orders were given that "xxx"
number of loco's had to be sent from "a" to "b" etc. As a result
loco's (mainly freight) would get lost for weeks on end.

Similarily "manual" reporting wasn't too reliable - One I remember...

A Liverpool Street "Jazz" EMU was reported to be stabled at four
seperate locations one evening - but was in Wolverton works at the
time.

Bob Smith
.

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