FROM‘Streaks’ and‘Footballers’ for Nigel Gresley’s LNER A4 and B17 classes to ‘Terriers’ for the SR A1X locomotives and‘Black Fives’for the LMS Class 5 engines, railway enthusiasts and indeed the industry itself have long loved nicknames, writes Geoff Courtney.
One suchnow we’re going to build a teddy bear.”