92030 daft question

Charlie Hulme wrote:

> It took the name in 1996 at a ceremony involving the local Mayor,
> having previously been named 'de Falla.' Marsden says it
> was to continue the twinning of the town with a modern freight loco,
> the name having been previously carried by 33 052.

Really ? Never heard the name 'de Falla' before - not in any of my
references here.

TY muchly

This now then leads me to ask was 92031 renamed as well - a couple of
my list have this one a anonymous before it got its ILT name in 2001.

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Nick

wyrleybart@netscape.net wrote:

> one for sparky things, especially with
> a 3rd rail shoe !!

:o)

They have 12 of those.

So Frotteurs to you.

:o)

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Nick

Charlie Hulme wrote:

> Seems it should have been 'Schiller' but for some reason they never
> got round to applying it,

Now I had heard of the Schiller name with the 20/20 hindsight vision
after you posted it.


> And what has always puzzled me about these namings: why do some
> have first names and others surname only? e.g. 'Bertolt Brecht'
> and 'Charles Dickens' but just 'Kipling' (not even the 'Mr' ;-)

Its a right mixture isn't it.

''Johan Strauss'' could be any one of the three but I assume it is II .

Some are pen names - one can accept ''George Eliot'' rather than ''Mary
Ann Evans'' and for the same reasons I would think ''Jean-Baptiste
Poquelin'' and ''Marie-Henri Beyle'' would baffle a few without google.

Maybe ''Puccini'' is better than ''Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele
Secondo Maria Puccini'' but IMHO it ought to be ''Rudyard Kipling'' -
ignoring the Mr. bit :o) - and likewise for some of the others.

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Nick

Charlie Hulme wrote:
>
> And what has always puzzled me about these namings: why do some
> have first names and others surname only? e.g. 'Bertolt Brecht'
> and 'Charles Dickens' but just 'Kipling' (not even the 'Mr' ;-)

Perhaps it doesn't relate to the author but comes from the verb 'to kipple'?
;-)

< snip various >

:o)

I've always wondered why with all the traction and signalling
interferences current problems with 92s they mixed amps and volts and
called one ''Voltaire''.

Perhaps thats why they took so long to get the software right.

:o)

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Nick