The North York Moors are on my doorstep (about a 20 minute drive away) but it is a place that I don't get to often enough.

I'm on leave this week, so despite the appalling weather here today, I decided to entrust my life (and my sanity) to public transport to do a bit of exploring of the moors.

At one point I found myself in Grosmont, headquarters of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and where it has its engineering workshops.

You're allowed to wander round to see what is going on.  Among the piles of ash, coal, spare parts, rusty relics and oil rags was the locomotive that bears the name of the man most people (myself included) regard as the finest ever locomotive engineer - Sir Nigel Gresley.

He's the man who designed Mallard which to this day still holds the world speed record for a steam train - 126 miles an hour.

It looks like the loco Sir Nigel Gresley is in need of some tender loving care (as you can see below), but fortunately it seems to be getting it from the dedicated people of the NYMR railway.

There was something else that caught my eye.

I've never really properly studied the former British Railways logo, but it was on the side of a another loco parked up in one of the sidings.

I've decided I like it.

There's something great about it in fact.

It's bold.

It's industrial.

It's powerful.

And on the side of a massive great locomotive it kind of has the 'Ronseal effect.  You know, it sort of 'says what it does on the tin'.

It's a shame British Railway's reputation was never as great as it's logo was.