In 1955 British Rail decided that their perfectly functional steam locomotives were awfully old hat, and that what they really needed was the most dysfunctional collection of diesels ever perpetrated on a single railway network.

A while back I took a look at them... https://twitter.com/Canocola/status/1111048630826422272

I wouldn't normally retweet stuff, btw, but for the moment I suspect there's a lot of things I've written that you guys won't have seen.

And I'm also *incredibly* lazy.

Also because I'm lazy, I might as well say if anyone's seen anything that they reckon I'd be interested in feel free to let me know.

Someone's already pointed me at Japan's slightly mad one-gun cruisers:

Somebody retweeted this earlier along with a slightly sweary comment expressing their surprise, and now it looks like that retweet has disappeared so I presume I accidentally got them into trouble with their mum for using naughty language.

Sorry, whoever you were!