New gate

[John Ashworth]

Our compound has had a new gate fitted, following an artistic rearrangement
by a locomotive. The colour change is there to denote that there is a new
item in place. Gate is being named "Johna", after its creator!!

I plead guilty, your honour. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

[Tom Macrery]

But, your honour, as there were several mitigating circumstances, my client deserves special consideration. Perhaps banishment to the faraway Land of the Sud, without a railhead in sight, will be sufficient. And as rehabilitation the sentence must include a six-monthly return to the scene of the crime for intensive retraining on, and reacquaintance with, the offending loco.

[Nathan Berelowitz]

Sentence agreed upon, and on return, 50 lashes with a spraypipe (leather one!) and two hours coal trimming.in Sudan!