The Deeside line
At the age of nineteen, I joined the Midland Bank at Bramley branch in Leeds. The main branch was in Town Street, Bramley, and it had two subbranches to each of which a clerk and guard were sent each day. The sub branch in Station Parade was on the main road from Bradford to Leeds and the guard was a retired policeman, and I took my turn as the clerk.
I think it was when I said I was interested in railways that he told me that he used to be a signalman on the Deeside line. He told me that once it was very cold and he didn’t tend to his signals as he should have. He was in trouble because the
