Scenario

Steam has been re-introduced, as has BR..... staff are wanted at your local running shed... Starting as a Cleaner on Minimum Wage, dirty hard work, shiftwork, nights, for about 5 years and then another ten as a Fireman before you make Driver.... will you apply?

Form queue here....

 

Wouldn't that be nice!

Well, they say "the wheel turns" so why not?..........

 

Will rose tinted specs be issued on application?

 

no safety gear supplied...just like of old.

 

no but I would be contacting the BR management about a bunch of 101 DMU's that I just happen to be part owner of to see if they would be interested in running them
cheers
Colin

 

Only if we can have today's mod cons.................................

 

pretty much...do you want the job or not? there's waiting list you know...

 

get out of my queue then....next!

 

Is there?........

How many have signed up?........ would make a serious dent in the dole queue if it really did happen!

 

Would depend on salary.

 

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Only if you get six weeks paid holiday and every other weekend off. Plus a starting salary of 30k a year.

 

Best thing about 1950s......

No extraneous technology!

 

doubt you'd get many takers in reality.

 

Common sense was the order of the day then, it was a job requirement. Sadly common sense died a long time ago.
How many of todays young people could get out of bed at all hours and KNOW it was going to be a hard 10/12 hour shift.
I'm too old and creaky now, but I'll join the queue, I'll be the tea boy.

 

yep, you have to have an old guy around the place...I think that's tradition...and it was the job I had earmarked for me, I'll sweep up then

 

Na, nowadays you'd have to do a degree at the "University of Vaguely Southwest of Watford" and finish up with a 20K student loan before you were eligible for a cleaners job.

 

I'm between jobs at the moment so I'd be down to sign up first thing Monday.