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Hi All

Just received this birthday card so thats what happened to Silver Link

it was de-streamlined, rebuilt with normal boiler & painted blue

(Well according to greeting card company anyway)
http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/ ... -2Qj8Jgv/A

Neil

It also apears that the cartazzi truck has been replaced with one from a stanier pacific.

And what's wrong with this picture? I've heard of artistic licence and editorial oversight but, well, you be the judge.
http://theopendoorway.co.uk/index.php?m ... ts_id=1402

Here's the music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwab4b7_7qA

giner wrote:And what's wrong with this picture? I've heard of artistic licence and editorial oversight but, well, you be the judge.

The LMS Coranation Scot worked by a dodgy looking LNER A4?.

No doubt eh, Micky. I think I read somewhere that the poor sap who okayed this to be printed got his butt fired down the road. The boss must have been a staunch LMS man. It was probably a case of "Well, it's a tune about a train, innit? Find a picture of a train 'Arry, and we'll stick it on the cover."

giner wrote:I think I read somewhere that the poor sap who okayed this to be printed got his butt fired down the road. The boss must have been a staunch LMS man.

He may have been a LNER man giner but if your boss is a staunch LMS man you don't go putting a A4 on the front of the Coranation Scot!!.

Ay up!

If you listen to the piece, the whistle is closer to a chime than a Stanier hooter.

I have heard that the name was pinched by the LMS. Anyone else hear that?

Anyone remember the guy who converted his 3 wheel car into a driving cab of a Inter City 125 and drove it around.

Blink Bonny wrote:I have heard that the name was pinched by the LMS. Anyone else hear that?

Just a spot of bandwagon-jumping I think. I doubt it's possible to copyright the name of a royal event.

It's a good job the LMS took a couple of years to catch up though. 'Silver Jubilee Scot' doesn't have quite the same ring to it...