These two insulators are from the London and North Eastern Railway. One has been cleaned with liquid Drano. I could not bring myself to clean the other one. What has it seen in its service life? Millions of young Englishmen sent off to war? Sadly, many fewer returning home? The world's speed record for a steam locomotive, 126 MPH, set in 1938 by an A4 Mallard?

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