This from Captain Deltic...
May I offer Eye followers the chance to re-live a fabled period in privatised railway history?
After Privatisation was announced there was a period of 1,064 days during which no new trains were ordered for Britain's railways.
This was not an hiatus, according to long suffering Transport Minister Roger Freeman, but a long pause.
This Sunday, the 15th August, it will be 500 days since the last rolling stock order was placed.
Can the 1,064 day record be beaten?
We'll be halfway there on 16 September.
