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Like gold-y and bronze-y, only it's made of iron
Freightliner's 66534 'OOCL Express' about to pass under the Bishopstoke Road bridge at Eastleigh with a mixed rake of empty intermodal flats.
I'm sure this is by no means the first or last time that this loco has hauled a container working of fresh air but the irony of a locomotive named after one of the world's largest container shipping companys hauling not one single TEU container was worth noting.
Founded in the far east in 1947 OOCL was already a formidable shipping and logistics player when in 2018 the parent company was taken over in a $6.3 billion dollar deal by Shanghai-based competitor COSCO Shipping. COSCO as currently the world's fourth largest maritime transport business with approximately 11% of the market.
66523, with it's distinctive red nameplates was named OOCL Express in November 2001 to commemorate a long term trade relationship between the company and Freightliner.
The quote used in the title caption is of course from the brilliantly funny BBC television series Blackadder, specifically Blackadder the Third, episode five "Amy and Amiability" and involves an exchange between Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) and his dimwitted 'dogsbody' Baldrick (Tony Robinson);
Blackadder: "Baldrick, do you have any idea what irony is"?
Baldrick: "Yeah. It's like gold-y and bronze-y, only it's made of iron".
Our eternal thanks to writers Richard Curtis and Ben Elton for these and so many other killer quotable lines in this much loved comedy series.
Like gold-y and bronze-y, only it's made of iron
Freightliner's 66534 'OOCL Express' about to pass under the Bishopstoke Road bridge at Eastleigh with a mixed rake of empty intermodal flats.
I'm sure this is by no means the first or last time that this loco has hauled a container working of fresh air but the irony of a locomotive named after one of the world's largest container shipping companys hauling not one single TEU container was worth noting.
Founded in the far east in 1947 OOCL was already a formidable shipping and logistics player when in 2018 the parent company was taken over in a $6.3 billion dollar deal by Shanghai-based competitor COSCO Shipping. COSCO as currently the world's fourth largest maritime transport business with approximately 11% of the market.
66523, with it's distinctive red nameplates was named OOCL Express in November 2001 to commemorate a long term trade relationship between the company and Freightliner.
The quote used in the title caption is of course from the brilliantly funny BBC television series Blackadder, specifically Blackadder the Third, episode five "Amy and Amiability" and involves an exchange between Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) and his dimwitted 'dogsbody' Baldrick (Tony Robinson);
Blackadder: "Baldrick, do you have any idea what irony is"?
Baldrick: "Yeah. It's like gold-y and bronze-y, only it's made of iron".
Our eternal thanks to writers Richard Curtis and Ben Elton for these and so many other killer quotable lines in this much loved comedy series.