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The Welsh settlers

Initial construction

Locomotives

Rolling stock

Later extensions

Operations

Remaining relics

Appendices

1 Resolutions of Congress

2 Surviving letters

3 Surviving telegrams

4 Staff list of 1890

5 Extra photos

6 FCCC itinerary

7 Loco no. 3 detail photos

8 Notes for C. T. Alt

9 Passenger regulations

10 Report on extension

11 Poem from 1915

Chapter 2

The Welsh-built Central Rly. of Chubut

Glossary

Site map

RAILWAYS OF THE FAR
RAILWAYS OF THE FAR

Appendix 11

A poem of protest, published in Y Drafod of 5 November 1915

The Trelew Train Time-table

 

From the hand of Mr Abel

We've received your new time-table,

And we've studied it until we're nearly blind.

Will you let us know by cable

Just as soon as you are able,

If its meaning is quite clear within your mind.

 

We have known a lot of railways,

Steamship lines and penny tramways

But such problem we have rarely met before

To be certain of the train days

And the days that are but lay days,

So we wish you to inform us somewhat more.

 

If we wish to pass a week end

And our battered nerves mend

By the sad and salty wavelets of the sea,

We must quite a lot of cash spend

If the service you will not mend

Or provide us board and lodgings that are free.

 

We've perused the works of Bradshaw

Dealing with all kinds of train law,

And at times they've really made us quite perplexed,

But your time table's like a jig saw

Dating from the days of Esau

And we must say we feeling more than vexed.

 

Noting how the table's dated

It has come to hand belated

But of this we do not seriously complain.

This, we know is estimated,

It most certainly is fated

That some passengers are bound to miss the trains.

 

With the spread of education

And night classes in the station,

Perhaps your timetable we in time may understand.

As it is, the rare formation

Makes one have a great trepidation

To remark that now it really beats the band.

 

by H.P.E.

 

28-1-2018

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