For anybody on the train tomorrow...IT'S A GUSHER!
My housemate works for Jarvis in the railway signal design department, he is office based but spent the first 6 months out with the workers trackside seeing how everything works.

Everytime a train driver sees people trackside he has to blow his horn and the workparty has to acknowledge, they take this very seriously.

One day whilst the group were all stood around watching one bloke do some delicate wiring job, up to his elbows in a complicated signal box, the spotter says 'train'
The train driver blows his horn and the spotter waves back, he then shouts 'It's a gusher!' and starts to run up the embankment followed by the rest of the crew, including my housemate who didn't have a clue what was hapening.

The only person not to move was the bloke up to his elbows in the box, he couldnt let go of the gubbins for fear of screwing up the job.

The rest of them watched as an express train thundered past trailing two long vortexes of effluent enhanced mist. The train having passed they all walked back to find a drenched sparks not best pleased with the situation.

He had a few close scrapes himself and now partakes in this trackworkers tradition. Anytime he is on a train, either stood near the bogs or best of all on them, upon hearing the horn he counts to three and then flushes.

Less length?.. Let daddy do the driving!
('tin'tintin, Thu 8 Sep 2005, 0:34, Reply)