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Years ago there was a Monty Python episode, if I remember aright, with armed sheep robbing a bank. Could this have been the same gang on a practice run for a train hold-up?

Hitchin to Aberdeen, rocking and rolling in noisy Mk 1 compartment stock on jointed track for most of the way in the 60s could have been a court sentence for a serious offence. Hitchin to Bedford in a Park Royal railbus that bounced like a fairground ride, but so much fun to be able to see...

My nomination goes to the production Deltics, Class 55. I think they did more to attract positive public attention to the railways than any other locomotive of their time, with the timetable changes they made possible, and the experience of riding behind them that even the most insensitive...