The word in Salford back in the day was that Ewan McColl personally arranged the defective repair to the steam brake on 48188 just so he'd have something to write about. The land he owned was of course Kinder Scout, the Duke was merely his agent on the spot. In fact, Ewan McColl was not Ewan McColl at all, but another folksinger of the same name. His mannerism of putting his hand over his ear was to be better able to hear the orders relayed from the Kremlin on a tiny implanted radio. The beard he got secondhand from Cuba.