Dietrich and Lenya lacked a number of singerly virtues, but their strengths lay in a kind of extramusical quality of feeling and experience.

Mr. Hoyle, who does not believe many multiple-unit diesel services on secondary routes will resist for ever the road transport challenge, would forgo passenger traffic altogether on a little-used route in order to improve the quality of the freight working and reduce its costs by equating the average speed of all trains on the line concerned.

Darren: Yeah. They can. Shaun: What do they say? Darren: You know what they say. Shaun: What, lanky four-eyed twat? Darren: Yeah. Shaun: Weirdo goggle-eyed gimp? Darren: Sometimes. Shaun: Frankenstein's albino gonk? Darren: I've never heard that one. Shaun: It's so easy to have a go at a bloke who looks like you, you're just easy pickings, and it's... [trails off and shakes his head] Darren: Sheepshagger they've said sometimes as well. Shaun: I thought sheepshagger was Welsh. Darren: No, it can be Bristol as well. Shaun: I thought Bristol was inbreeding. Darren: Sheepshagging, inbreeding, slavery... we're famous for loads of stuff down there. Shaun: Oh, all right.

And Death's grim hands grip hard below / At mortared seams of the yieldless stone