More than underground appeal
UK: THE chief beneficiary of Lloyds’ July 31 sale of London Underground railwayana in Putney was a pet pig called Charlotte, whose owner, John Shirley, paid the auction’s top hammer price of £1000 for the front end of a Type 59 Northern Line train, intending to house his animal in it.
The price might not seem high for a piece of rolling stock, but when one
considers that on top of t…