The provision of sanding-gear on brake vans operating over such lines should be compulsory (this old Highland brake was not so fitted); ….

I have never been chewed out like he chewed me out. . . . It must have worked because we went out in the second half and beat them going away.

The move toward the Washminster model identified in the early 1980s may be measured by shifts in several of these indicators.

That the bright glister of their beames cleare / Did sparckle forth great light, and glorious did appeare.