In 1955 British Rail decided that their perfectly functional steam locomotives were awfully old hat, and that what they really needed was the most dysfunctional collection of diesels ever perpetrated on a single railway network.

A while back I took a look at them... https://twitter.com/Canocola/status/1111048630826422272">https://twitter.com/Canocola/...

I wouldn& #39;t normally retweet stuff, btw, but for the moment I suspect there& #39;s a lot of things I& #39;ve written that you guys won& #39;t have seen.

And I& #39;m also *incredibly* lazy.

Also because I& #39;m lazy, I might as well say if anyone& #39;s seen anything that they reckon I& #39;d be interested in feel free to let me know.

Someone& #39;s already pointed me at Japan& #39;s slightly mad one-gun cruisers:

Somebody retweeted this earlier along with a slightly sweary comment expressing their surprise, and now it looks like that retweet has disappeared so I presume I accidentally got them into trouble with their mum for using naughty language.

Sorry, whoever you were!