To successfully 'glip' a bridge, a deliberate passage through the concentration of small arms, machine gun and automatic weapons fire, and often blossoming, white puffs of time-fused mortar shells, was essential.

The GWML is now electrified - and from early next year, Intercity Express Trains will be able to run from London-Cardiff Central completely on electric power. That will enable the biggest timetable shake-up since 1976.

A bright, ambitious kid just out of technical school, learning railroading from the ground up.

Nipless. Remember the lad who smashed a Spencer st. wine saloon window to get his weekend nip?