RHTT with a silent 'B'

Strap lane near Upton Noble is the location as DB sisters 66011 and 66094 pass by working the mysterious 3J13 08.45 Westbury to St Blazey.

 

Why mysterious?, well every year for a few weeks in the autumn a couple of DB locos turn up in these parts with three blue tanks and some other kit, seemingly going back and forth and each day they are a little bit grubbier, apparently it's called RHTT(!?).

 

I don't get it, Trains coming and going up and down the Rail Head Treating us to a show, sometimes the tanks seem to be leaking something (which I really hope is only water). As always in 'Rail-Speak', everything's an acronym - no-one knows what they mean;

SPAD, SIMBIDS, TPWS, AWS, OTDR, ABBA, UXB, WTF, OMG, BOGOF - all gibberish designed to confuse.

 

For a time I wondered if RHTT should really be RHTT(B), that might explain the loco's dirty colouration - it could be "Red Hastily Turns To Brown".

 

Maybe RHTT is for some strange reason relating to well known figures?, could an answer be found there?;

 

Rita Hayworth Top Tottie

Rolf Harris Television Transgressor

Rob Halford Titanium Tonsils

Reinhard Heydrich Teutonic Terror

Rudolf Hess Truant Teuton

Rachel Hunter Tottie Too

Richard Hammond Tiny Tearaway

Ricky Hatton Thrice Thumped

 

No-one really knows but I'm not going to bother trying to figure it out anymore, it's getting Really Hard To Think and I may Require Hospital Treatment Too.

 

Wait, 'Treatment', could that be something?, no, can't get my Head around that, what's that got to do with Rail and Train?

 

 

Done