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Platform 9 and 4/4: A New Railway Appreciation Thread

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  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    In India the word "bogie" is, I believe, used to mean "carriage" (presumably not a four- or six-wheeler!)
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited February 9
    Stercus Tauri wrote: »
    Merry Vole wrote: »
    A question for you train afficionados if I may:
    I sing songs in folk clubs and I like to find out if I can the meaning of the words of the songs.
    One song I do is In the Sidings written in the 1960s by Cyril Tawney in response to the Beeching cuts, I believe. The song is from the point of view of a station master made redundant. It contains the line "my bogie fires are burning low". Usually pronounced 'boggy'.
    What are these bogie fires?

    I wonder if he is using 'bogie' to mean engine? (Interestingly, 'boggi' is the Swedish word for 'bogie', but I doubt that's relevant here).

    That's a possibility, I guess, but it's an odd word to use...

    Mind you, a singer could substitute 'engine' for 'bogie', and it would fit.
    :wink:
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Baptist Trainfan wrote: »
    In India the word "bogie" is, I believe, used to mean "carriage" (presumably not a four- or six-wheeler!)

    Yes, although that doesn't explain the reference to a 'fire'. Alas! Cyril Tawney died in 2005, so we can't ask him what he meant...
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    There are so-called bogie hearth furnaces for industrial processes, see e.g. here. Hm.
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