The memorial to the great locomotive engineer as photographed at Edinburgh Waverley station on Wednesday.
The memory of Mallard's creator will live on long after the likes of TPE have been consigned to the corporate dustbin!
UPDATE: This just in from Captain Deltic...
Captain Deltic wonders what the Great engineer would have thought of Trans-Pennine Express' German Class 185 DMUs - or for that matter the Intercity Express Programme.
Since his reaction to the Reichsbahn's Flying Hamburger high speed diesel train was to show that loco-haulage could do better, we can only assume that the great man is following with approbation, from the great motive power depot in the sky, Ian Walmsley's campaigning for real inter-city trains with serious traction horsepower on the front end, rather than under the floor.