I remember that in the Prefabs we had a coal hole.We used to climb up on the railway line behind the Co-Op and using a bucket collect coal.Sometimes when no one was about ,we would visit a train bunker, and coal used to accidently fall into our buckets.
I also remember placing 4 and 6 in nails on the railway tracks and waiting for a train to come by and flatten them.We would then use them to make arrows ans spears.
I think I was with Ronnie McDiarmid and a couple of his mates and there was one of those self propelled railway trucks which you cranked a handle up and down to move it and we took a trip on it out of the siding, luckily for us there was no train coming either way…boys will be boys!!!
