{"id":121,"date":"2007-04-08T09:03:37","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T09:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=121"},"modified":"2007-04-08T09:06:01","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T09:06:01","slug":"name-a-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Name a Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:728,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk\\\/scoutingplus\\\/050407\\\/050407.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk\\\/scoutingplus\\\/050407\\\/050407.htm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:241,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/LMS_Royal_Scot_Class&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260115000246\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/LMS_Royal_Scot_Class&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:24:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:24:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:243,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/BR_Standard_Class_7&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/BR_Standard_Class_7&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Looks like one of the train operating companies is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scouts.org.uk\/scoutingplus\/050407\/050407.htm\" target=\"_blank\">name a locomotive with a Scouting<\/a> name.<br \/> Naming a locomotive with a Scouting related name is not a new idea. <\/p>\n<div>In the 1930&#39;s the London Midland and Scottish Railway named one of it&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LMS_Royal_Scot_Class\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Scot<\/a> locomotives, number 6169, The Boy Scout. They also named one, number 6168, The Girl Guide. <\/div>\n<div>In the 1950&#39;s British Railways named a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BR_standard_class_7\" target=\"_blank\">Britannia class<\/a> locomotive, number 70045, after the then current Chief Scout, Lord Rowallen.<br \/> I&#39;m interested to know which TOC it is. How about &#39;The Scout&#39;? <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like one of the train operating companies is to name a locomotive with a Scouting name. Naming a locomotive with a Scouting related name is not a new idea. In the 1930&#39;s the London Midland and Scottish Railway named one of it&#39;s Royal Scot locomotives, number 6169, The Boy Scout. They also named one, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Name a Train&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-railways","category-scouts","tag-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-1X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}