This just in from Captain Deltic...
"Rollout of the prototype Deltic - then the most powerful single unit locomotive in the world - was not the only noteworthy event of 1955.
"The Boeing B52 also entered service with Strategic air command.
"Today, the Deltic is in the National Railway Museum, but the United States Airforce is reinstating a fourth squadron of B52, known to airmen as the BUFF (Big Ugly Fat er... Feller).
"By comparison with the BUFF, our IC125 is a mere strippling at 30 years old.
It will easily maintain the highest standards of service until the MML and GWML are electrified."
Thinks, wasn't the Zombie train originally called HST2? Another reason for binning this expensive farrago.
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