portable "step boxes"

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 These slides are from the NWHS "Don Ball Collection". There are few shots
that appear to have been taken the same day at Kemper Street with the same
people.

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=90688
https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=90634
https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=90816
https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=90786

There is also this shot which looks like it might be Kemper street as well
from the same collection. Can anyone verify?
https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=90803

- Roger Link

On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 8:41 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Just recently ran across this nice step-box image again in the archives.
> It also wonderfully captures the interaction between the porter and the
> young passenger.
>
> John Garner
>
> https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=90688
>
> ___________________
>
> They were not used just at Crewe. I can remember seeing step boxes used
> at stations with platforms. That first step is pretty high for some
> people. The portable step boxes were pretty much standard in the 1940's
> and '50's. And, I think I remember, not just on the N&W.
>
> Jim Nichols
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