With the possible return of the railway to Hawick never far from the news, Loan resident Maurice Wear recalls almost ten years of his working life as a joiner with British Rail.
Three other members of the Wear family were also employed on the railway, chalking up a combined 120 years’ service.
Mo, as he is better known, joined as an apprentice joiner in August 1958, leaving some ten years later to work for a private joinery firm, going into partnership with his brother Bert in the 1970s. And speaking this week, he said he was the last apprentice tradesman to be taken on at the railway workshops at Lochpark.
His father, Joseph Lawrence Wear, who stayed in Oliver Park, was on the railway for 20 years as an electric welder. One of his jobs was working on the Forth Rail Bridge, recalled Mo.
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