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Seen on another forum: At last Gordon Brown decided to throw the towel in and resign. His
cabinet colleagues decided it would be a worthy gesture to name a
railway locomotive after him. So a senior 'Sir Humphrey' went from Whitehall
to the National Railway Museum at York , to investigate the possibilities.
"They have a number of locomotives at the NRM without names," a
specially-sought consultant told the top civil servant. "Mostly freight
locomotives though."
"Oh dear, that's not very fitting for a prime minister," said Sir
Humphrey. "How about that big green one, over there?" he said,
pointing to 4472 Flying Scotsman
"That's already got a name" said the consultant. "It's called 'Flying
Scotsman'."
"Oh. Couldn't it be renamed?" asked Sir Humphrey. "This is a national
museum after all, funded by the taxpayer."
"I suppose it might be considered," said the consultant. "After all
the LNER renamed a number of their locomotives after directors of the
company, and even renamed one of them "William Whitelaw."
"That's excellent", said Sir Humphrey, "So that's settled then...let's
look at renaming 4472. But how much will it cost? We can't spend too
much, given the expenses scandal!"
"Well", said the consultant, "We could always just paint out the 'F'."
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