Johnny May & Ted Nye
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2022 10:00 am
Johnny May and Ted Nye a couple of names from the dim and distant past that would be familiar to any ex-signalling staff on the Kings Cross area during the early 1970s. Both men were signalling inspectors up the London end during the early 1970s and quite possibly during the the prevoius decade of the 1960s.
Johnny May was a man of about 61 or 62 years of age I would hazard a guess by the early 1970s and was a rather tall thin looking man with bit of a small moustache who often wore black B.R. trousers and a black B.R. jacket and occasionally wore a railway overcoat all topped off with a distinctive black homburg hat.
Ted Nye was of a slightly more fuller build than Johnny May and I would hazard a guess he was about 50 or 51 years old by the early 1970s and like Johnny May Ted usually wore black B.R. trousers and a black B.R. jacket but no hat this time and was referred to by some signalmen as 'Noggy' Nye.
I don't remember Johnny May ever showing up at Welwyn Garden City box when I was at the box as a telegraph lad between 1972-74 but I remember Ted Nye showing up on a couple of occasions when I was at the box possibly after something may have occurred at the box and he had turned up to find out a bit more about it because I don't think Ted was the sort of bloke who would have showed up for a 'social chat' with the signalman somehow?.
Johnny May was a man of about 61 or 62 years of age I would hazard a guess by the early 1970s and was a rather tall thin looking man with bit of a small moustache who often wore black B.R. trousers and a black B.R. jacket and occasionally wore a railway overcoat all topped off with a distinctive black homburg hat.
Ted Nye was of a slightly more fuller build than Johnny May and I would hazard a guess he was about 50 or 51 years old by the early 1970s and like Johnny May Ted usually wore black B.R. trousers and a black B.R. jacket but no hat this time and was referred to by some signalmen as 'Noggy' Nye.
I don't remember Johnny May ever showing up at Welwyn Garden City box when I was at the box as a telegraph lad between 1972-74 but I remember Ted Nye showing up on a couple of occasions when I was at the box possibly after something may have occurred at the box and he had turned up to find out a bit more about it because I don't think Ted was the sort of bloke who would have showed up for a 'social chat' with the signalman somehow?.