Wayne Bellinger

Retired Railway Worker

Place of birth: Launceston

Year of birth: 1945

Lived in Launceston: 70 Years

“When I worked at the railway in the sixties, about 1200 railway workers used to cross Invermay Road, at lunchtime and at 4.30pm every day with a policeman directing the traffic.

It was good to go to work in the winter, because we arrived to our forges and furnaces going, thanks to Bronco Walker, as he started early.

In the mid-sixties the first aid officer Stan Porter tested the noise level in the blacksmiths shop as the noise was deafening.

The word decibels was used, we thought it had something to do with Christmas.

They were good years for the Doctors of Steel, sadly we are a dying race.”