Jones Quotes

“Morning Ivor, jumping cold this morning!′ Then Jones would light up Ivor’s boiler, fill his coal box, and when the boiler had begun to boil, Jones would make a pot of tea from the boiler tap, and he would sit on the step of the engine and drink his cup.”

″... and down into Tan-y-Gwich Jones uncoupled the truck and then he and Claude, the station master of Tan-y-Gwich, sat in the grass and ate their sandwiches.‘You know, Claude,’ said Jones, ‘I’ve been thinking, it must be a good life in a quiet sort of way being a railway engine.”