RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 26, 2014 Anyone care to guess where I was today... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted June 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 26, 2014 At work ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 26, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 26, 2014 "Upstairs" in the main building at Exeter St Davids would be my first wrong guess..... It does look a bit like there Yes, it does look a bit like that, but that's not the right answer! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stadman Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Old part of Exeter Central footbridge, partioned off from present but has the old lift doors? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted June 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 26, 2014 St Erth ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 St Erth ? St. Elsewhere? St. Anywhere? St. Somewhere? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptic Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 All that Blue paint would suggest somewhere on the, err.?,... Eastern Region ?........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 26, 2014 Newton Abbot I reckon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkie_pudd Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Hiding inside keeping out of the possible rain well someone had to say it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Stevie Posted June 27, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 27, 2014 Jason Shron's basement!!! hat coat brolly gone............ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 27, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2014 I think SM Mike is on the money. Certainly the island platform is 1 & 2 "over the footbridge" - in contrast to the convention of P1 being the first up platform. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stadman Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Just beyond the foot bridge at Newton Abbot, where it crossed platform 4 and up through line? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 28, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 28, 2014 Gosh, you are a clever lot - it is indeed Newton Abbot, the non-public side of the footbridge, now FGW offices. And how did you guess my colleague and I were sheltering from the rain there? Well, we were, a bit, and were waiting for this: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium brushman47544 Posted June 28, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 28, 2014 I think SM Mike is on the money. SM being an acronym for StationMaster of course :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I don't know trainspotting on company time ? Good luck to you!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 28, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 28, 2014 SM being an acronym for StationMaster of course :-) Well actually Station Managers since the late '60s, but in his case Stationmaster of course. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 28, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 28, 2014 as opposed to anything else SM may stand for My dear chap...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 28, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 28, 2014 Well actually Station Managers since the late '60s, but in his case Stationmaster of course. Just for the record I was actually an AM (as in Area Manager) as well as being an AAM and umpteen other things over the years but when I set my name up for RMweb I though 'stationmaster' had a more 'real railway' feel to it than the more modern titles and I did of course actually manage quite few stations in my time (among other things including loco depots, various). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted June 29, 2014 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted June 29, 2014 I once tried, not that long ago (it was in late Railtrack or early Network Rail days) to get the title 'District Operations Manager' introduced during a local reorganisation - unfortunately the high ups with no sense of imagination wouldn't have anything with the allegedly 'old fashioned' word 'district' in it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 29, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 29, 2014 I once tried, not that long ago (it was in late Railtrack or early Network Rail days) to get the title 'District Operations Manager' introduced during a local reorganisation - unfortunately the high ups with no sense of imagination wouldn't have anything with the allegedly 'old fashioned' word 'district' in it... I think Districts preceded Divisions (1962-ish), and indeed remained in use for civil engineering boundaries for decades afterwards. I also suspect that organisational design is now a high art practised by people with MBAs and a nod to Harvard. Any connection with the railway is purely coincidental. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted June 29, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 29, 2014 I think Districts preceded Divisions (1962-ish), and indeed remained in use for civil engineering boundaries for decades afterwards. I also suspect that organisational design is now a high art practised by people with MBAs and a nod to Harvard. Any connection with the railway is purely coincidental. There might be some truth in that by now Ian but back in our day, when we were grown up enough to be allowed to write reorganisations, I think we had a reasonable choice of titles although 'District' was verboten in the Ops world. I was always amused in one of my later big railway jobs to be in a post where my title was 'such & such Officer' (the good Captain might even remember it although I'd had far more to do with him in my previous job when I was only an 'Assistant' but effectively the Chief Controller's right hand man although my job title said something very different). The world of railway job titles is always an amusing and sometimes fascinating one and my final one (in its first incarnation) was fairly ordinary in English but sounded quite impressive in French, let alone adding up to a single word of about 20-30 letters in German. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 When I was a kid and my mates wanted to be engine drivers I decided that the railway job I fancied far more was Divisional Traffic Superintendent. I'm not sure why or probably exactly what it was but one grandfather was a station master and the other a signalman and I knew I wanted to go up in the world, be paid monthly and have an office (I think I might have also just read Bhowani Junction !!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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