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Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Burton is recovered

Thank goodness, we've got Burton Dasset back.
When an accountant goes missing like that you start to worry. They could be almost anywhere - adding up columns of numbers on discarded supermarket receipts, decoding the check-digits in EAN-13 barcodes - their interest in controlling the world through the power of numbers is unlimited.
But on this occasion we've recovered Burton from Ridgmont station. We should have thought of looking there first, of course.
Initially I thought he'd made the old mistake of trying to collect engine numbers. He's done that before, you know. Stood there for hours and forgotten the limited variety of numbers available on the Marston Vale line. But on this occasion he'd spent all day correlating the timetable to make sure the timings between stations were consistent.

Anyway, we've got him back now  but he's a bit blue from the cold.  I suggested it was British Rail blue, but Burton says it's more like a GER livery.

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