No, an old branch line that was ripped up years ago. The most amusing part of this was that the surname of the lad who did this was 'Shot'.

coppinpr wrote:I was forcibly removed from a railway sleeper carriage at 1am

Slightly off-topic, but did you know that the record for peeing off our local railway station bridge was set at 1.00am and reached 4 sleepers along the track. To my recollection this was back in the late 1960s.

and not give a stuff about health and safety.... Yes, we were crazy back in the '60s, there was a lot of redevelopment in our town during that time and we used to play on the demolition sites after school. One incredibly stupid (but exciting) lark was to light a penny banger and wait until it fizze...

Hi prunehat and a warm, belated, welcome.

You machine is a 'Saxony' type allwin of the 1930s and probably started life as a 'reserve' machine with 3 balls. Looks to be in quite good condition. Do you have any photos of the internal mechs?

Too much ale bp.

BP, have you tried turning off the Taxi light, leaving the 'for hire' light on, and placing the said object in a window at the front of your house.
At least that way, you could make use of the fare charge counter.

........just a thought

ensure on your camera/phone location settings are turned off Absolutely agree TF, modern cameras and phones will write a lot information to the jpeg photo file, camera type, aperture, speed, lens settings, exact time and date pic was taken and most scary exact number coordinates of where the photo ...