The stoker
The jobs in the Mikado: the stoker
Toni, how are we doing for coal? My colleague Toni is the
stoker. His job is to make sure there’s always water in the
boiler, coal in the furnace and constantly turn it over so
that it burns well... Which he does for hours and hours.
Sometimes we can be travelling for up to 14 hours before we
reach our destination!
They say that nowadays there are much more modern, cleaner
locomotives. Thank goodness for that! I’m told they work
with diesel or electricity.
That’s right! Now we are going to look at one that operates
with electricity. In the House of Trains there’s one that is
blue and has a very funny shape.