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Re: Secs What are they ?

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Subject: Re: Secs What are they ?
From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:09:32 +1000
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Owen Cook wrote:

> A coroners report on the death of a lengthsman in 1891, uses the
> word   "secs" . I would have thought it meant sections, exception
> the word section is spelt out a number of times in the report.

>From your extracts, I would say it is supposed to say "cess".  This is short for access
and indicates the area between the boundary fence and the nearest rail on each side of the
track.

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