Wondering if any of you have heard the Huw Williams penned song, Travelling By Steam, which has a lot of rail jargon in it. In the liner notes to Fairport's Jewel In The Crown, they quote Huw as saying he was commissioned to write this but knew nothing about trains really, so a trip to the library brought him all this jargon which he used in the song. Not being a train expert, this might be inaccurate or outside the loop, but he mentions "pick up your traps and your tommybox, standing in the byte (sp?), and some other references I have never worked out myself!
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