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Dunstan Times, Issue 3334, 16 August 1926, Page 7

Stories of peers, like Lord Raglan, who did service on the railways duiimr the British strike, may easily he matched from the past, for engine-driv-ing in particular seems to have ,-i special attraction for the higher ranks of the peerage. The father of the present Duke of Westminster, for instance. was an expert driver, frequently found on the footplate, and so was the late Duke of Sutherland. Sir William Russell used to toll how one day he saw the Duke of Sutherland take a train out from Dnnmhin station and hoard an admiring navvy exclaim. “There, that’s what I call a real duke! There he goes, a-driving his own engine, on his own railway, and a-hurning his own —■ coals!”