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    CALL ATTENTION

    Jul 16, 2021 3 minutes

    Any old iron?

    In the June ‘Call Attention’, Andy Roden’s dog had found a fishplate bolt while out for his daily exercise. The bolt had been ‘torched off’ as was standard practice when lines were lifted, and though larger ironworks, such as rail chairs, were recovered for scrap, the old steel bolts were generally just left among the abandoned ballast. Dogs will doubtless be finding them for centuries to come! Railwaymen abandoned an awful lot of tools and equipment when lines and locations were deleted from the railway map.

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