Deltic Names Reimagined for 2023

[Jeremy Cumberland]

2 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

I’ve always thought ‘Silver Blaze’ should have had a loco named after it, even if it was a fictional famous horse. It would have gone well with Silver King etc.

One of my favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. It even has some railway interest:

 

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“We are going well,” said he, looking out the window and glancing at his watch. “Our rate at present is fifty-three and a half miles an hour.”

“I have not observed the quarter-mile posts,” said I.

“Nor have I. But the telegraph posts upon this line are sixty yards apart, and the calculation is a simple one.

 

 

But it is, of course, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time that makes the tale memorable, and Holmes' question about whether anything might be amisss with the sheep. You can read it here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/834/834-h/834-h.htm

[Ian Smeeton]

So would the worst performing of the new batch of Deltics bear the name

 

Noble Locks

 

Alas, turned down by the Jockey Club when Clement Freud tried to register the gelding.

 

Regards

 

Ian

[New Haven Neil]

Hmm.

 

Ballabriggs.

Hedgehunter

 

Declaration of bias - their owner lived 500 yards from here, recently deceased.