Duchess of Sutherland

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

Restoration at its absolute best in spite of

Reading this a few minutes ago had me shaking my head in dismay!

Don't you just love reporters?

Will they ever do simple research in order to get the nomenclatures correct!?

Geoff – I very much doubt it.

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This article appeared in the DissMercury, 17/12/15 

Edited By OuBallie on 18/12/2015 17:28:12

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

She has both a ‘horn’ and ‘burner’!

[Martin ConnellyParticipant @martinconnelly55370]

I also dislike what is becoming a common grammatical error. The crowd was an "amount" of people. It should be a "number" of people. 50% is an amount and 100 is a number.

Martin

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

reminds me of a family outing on I think Boxing day 1965 to a relative who lived very near the sheds at Warrington (1st main town N of Crewe on West Coast line) – passing over the bridge which overlooked the shed it + the yard was jampacked with Coronation Scots (Duchesses!) and other mainline locos – probably well over 50 there – guess on their way for scrap. In previous years used to have one pass by at speed hauling a down Scot as I got off my train (abt 5pm) returning from school

Edited By Frances IoM on 18/12/2015 19:25:33

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