Thesong’s narrator, whoselife is in a rut,climbs Solsbury Hill, sees an eagle and imagines it urging him to pack his things and return to a life where he is in more control. He takes the eagle’s advice, quits andwalks right out of the machineryof his current life, his heart going...
As all locomotives were coaled with Yorkshire hard coal this immediately put the Western Region engines at a slight disadvantage as the drafting arrangements for these engines had been designed around the use of softer South Wales steam coal. Subsequent additional tests were carried on the Western ...