Class 50s in the borders. We know it happened, so just get over it.

We've decided at 'When you travel by train' to join the 'Did class 50s travel on the Waverley' debate.

With the answer that 'Yes they did - well at least once'

Railway Illustrated this month has also added speculation to the fact they did with a well thought out article on the Scottish wanderings of the EE's finest product. Personally we love the idea of D400 sitting outside Hawick chatting to the bobby so much so that our junior feature writer Bernard Matthews dreamt this little scenerio earlier, and then spat his tea out with such force we had to ask what had caused it.

"Picture the scene on the platform of Carlisle kingmoor on 28th December 1968, the gas lamps on the station shine through the mist but do little to illuminate the gloom. A lone class 50 sits idling in the centre road. In the distance we see the dim glow from the headcode box of a peak as it rumbles into the platform, apparently suffering a hot box hence it's late arrival from Leeds. The squeal of brakes precedes much activity as the peak is uncoupled and rumbles forward, to be replaced by the class 50, which lifts the heavy train out of the station easily, and, flanges screeching on the tight curve, swings round canal junction and into the night, powering away towards the hills and Edinburgh"

What the hell have they done to the coffee up here in Melton Mowbary?