Telegrammed by our International Correspondent
A little light relief, after today's IEP excitement...
State-owned national icon No 4472 - Flying Scotsman - continues to cause heartache as engineering problems worsen.
This from the Northern Echo...
'Chris Beet, engineering and rail operations manager, said:
“Essentially, it’s a very big job and very time consuming....
"It should have been scrapped 46 years ago by British Railways”.'
Ain't that the truth!
As avowed by the bank managers of Messrs Alan Pegler, Sir William McAlpine BART, Pete Waterman, Dr Tony Marchington, the creditors of Flying Scotsman plc... (cont P94).
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