Weston Dog

jolly47roger · Post by **jolly47roger** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:53 am

Just looking at the 2005 picture of the bay platform at Weston General. I remember that on that wall of the station was a memorial to a dog that used to collect money for charity. Does anyone know what has happened to it?

horace · Post by **horace** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:12 pm

Well, i would imagine the dog was dead other wise there would not of been a memorial, and if it is the memorial you are talking about, i would imagine it had gone as nobody could remember the dog as it died so long ago!!

sorry but i am an old cynic.

Agency_Scum · Post by **Agency_Scum** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:11 am

...and there's no such thing as Santa!

simon · Post by **simon** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:34 pm

Was it like this one - at Slough:

http://simon71.fotopic.net/p52074993.html

jolly47roger · Post by **jolly47roger** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:43 pm

It was a carved marble stone, built into the wall facing the buffer stops of the bay. Dated from 1920-ish, I think

Agency_Scum · Post by **Agency_Scum** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:09 am

Hang on a mo, I remember that. Isn't it in a museum somewhere?

keith.anthony · Post by **keith.anthony** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:07 pm

I think this has been moved now to the waiting room in the Station. I remember seeing this a few years ago, I think the Dog was called "Dandy"!
the orphans friend.

Agency_Scum · Post by **Agency_Scum** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:10 pm

I'll pop in for a nose next time I get a nightshift round there.

jolly47roger · Post by **jolly47roger** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:17 pm

While on the subject of Weston, I thought I'd share one of my memories from the fifties...

In the days before automatic door locking and in-train comms it took a team to get a long up train away. The guard (invisible from the footplate because of the curve) would whistle and a team of 3 or 4 porters spaced along the train would check the doors and turn to face back with their right arms up. The guard, seeing this 'all clear' would wave the green flag and the porters would pirouette in turn to relay the 'right-away' to the engine.

Another sight we won't see again.

Agency_Scum · Post by **Agency_Scum** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:09 am

Ah, 13 coach specials to Barry Island. There goes me nostalgia gland!

Hobbler · Post by **Hobbler** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:31 pm

jolly47roger wrote:While on the subject of Weston, I thought I'd share one of my memories from the fifties...

In the days before automatic door locking and in-train comms it took a team to get a long up train away. The guard (invisible from the footplate because of the curve) would whistle and a team of 3 or 4 porters spaced along the train would check the doors and turn to face back with their right arms up. The guard, seeing this 'all clear' would wave the green flag and the porters would pirouette in turn to relay the 'right-away' to the engine.

Another sight we won't see again.

I remember seeing a porter doing this on the old No 9 platform at Temple Meads and as he spun round he managed to knock off the hat of a passenger who was walking past .The gent was not well pleased !