A dozen eggs, cooked and well travelled

This story from 100 years ago comes from the Quorn Mercury via the Adelaide Observer, Saturday 25 April, 1908. “A workman, while dismantling a sheep van at the Quorn Locomotive Workshops, discovered a nest of hen eggs (12 in number) in a recess on top of the bogey, between the body of the vehicle and the axles. Judging by the appearance they had been there for a number of years, and the railway department had carried them free of charge for thousands of miles. With the heat of the north they had been boiled or baked quite hard, and... MORE