Re: Railways

NM (never.opened@xxxxxxx) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

Spanish Talgo pendular have been running since the early sixties

A quick google suggests 1980 as an introduction date.

including copeing with a gague change at the French border, we
were still building steam engines then.

I s'pose March 1960 counts as the "early 60s" - which was when the
last British steam loco was brought into service...

Would that be Evening Star 90000F series freight loco?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A15849868

Thats the one, used to see it going through Hayes station on it's way
west out of Paddington when I was on my way home from school,
beautiful piece of kit.

Indeed. But with two clear decades between it and the Talgo Pendular -
despite your assertion that they were contemporaneous.

Nice bit of diversion, btw.
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