GSWR 90 Overhaul

[Maitland]

Northroader: Please don't even to begin to think such a thing is funny. It's quite possible that the "mug" is wearing oily overalls, and perfectly possible that your smouldering waste is hot enough to ignite it. Result? Burning to death, or at best a painful recovery. Or, especially in the case of volunteers who might be as past it as I am, a breathing crisis. Or a volunteer leaving the group.

A prank went wrong last year in Swansea:  (sadly the original newspaper report is behind a paywall).

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/man-in-court-for-setting-fire-to-fellow-worker.302502/

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A railway worker set a colleague's overalls on fire at the end of a shift causing widespread burns to the victim's body, a court has heard. The victim was left with burns to his face, chest, and stomach and spent more than a week in hospital. ....

Kyle Blackett's advocate told Swansea Crown Court that there had been no intent on the part of his client to cause injury in what he termed "industry-accepted horseplay".
 

No intention of being a killjoy, but that doesn't count as joy.

Edited 7 hours ago by Maitland
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[Northroader]

 My apologies, I was thinking back to apprenticeship days in a main loco works, rather different from today’s scene.