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- History graduate and chartered accountant working in consultancy and voluntary sectors; has owned a succession of SAABs, inevitably
![Great trains have long lives. The Flying Scotsman is close to 150 years. The Cornish Riviera, over 120. The Broadway lasted over 80. The 20th Century Limited, 65. Canada’s Canadian […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/01-fogg.jpg "Trackside Classic: 1949-70 California Zephyr – A Silver Thread Across America")
![Britain has no shortage of wonderful railway stations large and small – London Paddington, York, Newcastle Central, Glasgow Central and Bristol Temple Meads all have their fans among the larger […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/st-pancras-roof.jpg "Trackside Classic: St Pancras Station – Industrial Revolution Meets Gothic Revival")
![Wakefield Kirkgate What happens when you take an underachieving bus and try to turn it into a cheap train for an underfunded rail system? You get the horror that is […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/02-shefield.jpg "Trackside Horror: 1985 British Rail Class 142 – The Truly Awful Pacer")
![CC has already met the replica Peppercorn A1 Pacific no 60163 ‘Tornado’. But on 14 February she did something special, which I think merits an encore – she became the […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16711953_1313649115340826_5973756471385732197_n.jpg "Trackside Outtake: The 0825 Appleby – Skipton Makes History")
![We usually think of the Southern Railway as little more than a huge fleet of electric multiple units scuttling around London and south east England – impressive, but not exciting. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/25-golder-arrow-painting.jpg "Trackside Classic: 1941-46 Southern Railway Merchant Navy and West Country / Battle of Britain Class Pacifics – Wartime Ambition, Peacetime Reality"){kind=icon}
![London’s Routemaster is Britain’s most famous bus – it lasted in frontline service for 50 years and is recognised worldwide as the symbol of London. But there is another vehicle […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/01.jpg "Bus Stop Classic – The Leyland Atlantean 1958 – 1986 – Rush Hour Isn’t Crush Hour Anymore")
![Standard, although not among the largest of British car makers, did reasonably well in the the post war period, and even took over Triumph Automobiles in 1945. Eventually it was […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160516_124837.jpg "Tavernaside Classic: 1955 Standard Vanguard Phase III – Resting After A Good Cypriot Lunch")
![At the end of WW2, when the United States refused to share in the nuclear secrets that had enabled the USA to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki to such effect, Britain […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/vulcan-558-011.jpg "Aviation History: 1960 Avro Vulcan B2 XH558 – The Empire’s Last Stand")
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