The wrong name

 

Doncaster’s finest: artwork outside the station depicting locomotive names from years gone by.
Ian Walmsley

I have written before about the rules I think should apply about the naming of trains (June 2018 issue). There I listed my 10 worst names, from the plain daft (Penny the Pendolino) to examples more like essays than train names.

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