The move toward the Washminster model identified in the early 1980s may be measured by shifts in several of these indicators.

I have never been chewed out like he chewed me out. . . . It must have worked because we went out in the second half and beat them going away.

The provision of sanding-gear on brake vans operating over such lines should be compulsory (this old Highland brake was not so fitted); ….

That the bright glister of their beames cleare / Did sparckle forth great light, and glorious did appeare.