New years eve rituals

WHEELTAPPER · Post by **WHEELTAPPER** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 3:40 pm

Although I have lived in Bath since 1963, back on new years eve for 1961/2 I lived in Truro and can remember the locos on
shed sounding their whistles to bring in the new year. Did any local sheds do this?
Finally, I wish all members a healthy and safe 2011.
Rog.(The Wheeltapper)

oldchapie · Post by **oldchapie** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 4:59 pm

I was on the royal edward pilot when midnight struck and all hell let loose with ships sirens any loco near by that was in 1950 it happened every year

Robin Summerhill · Post by **Robin Summerhill** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:26 am

I don't know about "rituals" as such, but I was on early turn in Bath Road Time Office on New Years Day 1972 (New Years Day wasn't a Bank Holiday in those days).

At the time I was living in a shared house in Totterdown - all the rest there were Rolls Royce apprentices - and they were making so much bleedin' noise with their New Year celebrations that I went to work at 0100 and got my head down for 5 hours in an empty office

Mitch · Post by **Mitch** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:13 pm

I recall one New Year's Eve in the mid-eighties when I was a freight guard at Bath Road. All those of us who were on duty climbed into cabs for the magic hour and kept most of Bristol awake with two-tone horn-blowing for several minutes. We'd probably have been sacked for doing it these days