The two Newport station boxes, East and West, were equipped with the earliest route-setting installations in the country, developed by a former G.W.R. Signal Engineer, R. J. Insell, and brought into service in 1927.

A grand duke, or a lesser titled personage, in a car goes ram-jamming over Moscow at 40 miles an hour up, with no one to say him nay.

And I never spreed with the fellows as a student any more than I had enjoyed myself with the lads in the playground.

[H]e lived on tinned tomatoes, beef embalmed and sourdough bread, / On rusty beans and bacon furred with mould; / His stomach’s out of kilter and his system full of lead, / But it's over, and his poke is full of gold.