“THE KING’S TIME”
REVIVAL OF OLD CUSTOM London, Jan. 9 "Taking the King’s Time to Holyhead” is an old custom which may be revived o lhe Irish mail train. From 1937 to 1940 i ! had been the traction for the guard on this train to bo handed every day at Euston, just before the train loft, a fat turnip watch in a leather rase from an Admiralty messenger. He carried it carefully 1o Holyhead, and gave the limo from it to the office” of the boat to Kingston, Troland Thon ho sen! 'ho watch back by the up mail to bo readjusted at the Admiralty ready for the next lourney. The cu tom was carried out in spite of telegraph, telephone, radio and 8.8. C. time signals. The war ended it. hut ho London Midland Scottish Railway now hopes to start the custom again.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 8, 10 January 1946, Page 5
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