Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish A Weekly Podcast this

week coming to you from Cambridge.

My name is Dan Triber and please welcome to the stage, it's the regular elves Andy

Murray, Anich Zzynski and James Harkin.

And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last

seven days and in no particular order here we go starting with you, Andy Murray.

My fact this week is that before trains had corridors, guards had to climb along the outside

of the carriage to check your ticket.

They did it while the train was moving and this was a thing, this happened.

Carriages used to not be, you couldn't go through a carriage, you would get in at one end,

they closed the door, they'd lock it, you were locked in for the whole journey and at

the other end they'd unlock it and you'd get and it was just across the train instead of

front to back through the train.

Were you locked in for health and safety reasons?

I think partly you were locked in so you wouldn't try and sneak into first class.

I don't think they were that bothered about health and safety if you had a guy climbing

on the outside of the carriage.

Indeed, that's where it seems to fall down.

How did he get, was there a ledge?

There was a little, they call it a running board so just on the outside of the carriage

of the bus there's a little plate that you could climb on but it wasn't even a continuous

running board, it was intermittent so you had to climb on between the beds and the people

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