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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS.
MOVEMENT OF LUGGAGE BARROWS AT STATIONS.
General Rule 6.
Every care should be exercised by the staff when moving barrows along
the platforms, and under no circumstances must a barrow, loaded in such a
' manner as to obstruct the view of the man wheeling it, be propelled, but in
such cases the barrows must be drawn. ( O . 227/17/1909).
PERSONS OTHER THAN DRIVERS OR FIREMEN RIDING ON ENGINES.
General Rule 20 (a).
Engine-drivers must record upon their mileage tickets the name and
of any persons who may ride upon their engines in addition to
the fireman.
When engines are returning light, and there is no other train or van in
which the Guard can ride, he may be allowed to travel on the engine to his
•home station without a pass.
When engines are proceeding from a shed to a station, other than their
:home station, in order to commence the day's work the guard may, when
•necessary, be allowed to travel on the engine without a pass.
PASSENGERS BY GOODS, MINERAL, AND CATTLE TRAINS.
General Rule 20.
Guards must not allow persons to travel by goods, mineral, or cattle trains
except those who have a pass or ticket specially endorsed as available by
goods, mineral or cattle trains, or those who have other special authority
to so travel.
Guards of such trains must ascertain that all persons travelling by their
'trains have proper passes, tickets, or authority to so travel, and report
irregularities.
DEALERS, DROVERS, AND OTHERS IN CHARGE OF LIVE STOCK.
General Rule 20.
Guards must not allow any persons other than those named in the Live
Stock Waybills to travel in charge of Live Stock, and the latter only on
production of proper Passenger Tickets, except men in charge of Live Stock
to or from Shows, who are allowed to travel free in charge of the Stock on
production of a Pass made out on the Live Stock Waybill.
The collection of the Passenger Tickets must be duly attended to by the
Station Master or Goods Agent at the stations to which the Drovers or other
persons are booked, but at the stations where the trains conveying the Live
Stock end their journeys the guards must collect the Passenger Tickets and
hand them to the proper officer of the Company.
CARETAKERS TRAVELLING BY GOODS TRAIN IN CHARGE
OF HEAVY MACHINERY, FORGINGS, ETC.
General Rules 20 and 111.
In the case of a caretaker with a private Locomotive Engine running in
steam and terminating its journey at some point on the North Eastern line
away from a Station, the free pass to be collected from the caretaker by the
Pilot Driver provided by the Company, and given up at the nearest Station.
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