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Rare sighting of a swallow

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Sitting on Lancaster station today, my wife looked across at the Avanti brand station sign and said “Is that a bird?”. Sure enough, there it was, an Intercity Swallow on the supporting bracket. Anyone know where else such a bird may be spotted?
 
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Sitting on Lancaster station today, my wife looked across at the Avanti brand station sign and said “Is that a bird?”. Sure enough, there it was, an Intercity Swallow on the supporting bracket. Anyone know where else such a bird may be spotted?
Technically it's a swift ;) , but the design is of course commonly referred to as the InterCity Swallow.
 

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Sitting on Lancaster station today, my wife looked across at the Avanti brand station sign and said “Is that a bird?”. Sure enough, there it was, an Intercity Swallow on the supporting bracket. Anyone know where else such a bird may be spotted?
A bird ... a plane ...
Hard to swallow?
Avanti meaning 'let's go'
Making a swift exit now ...
 

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It wasn't so much I was arguing what was the more accurate but more how it the design basis was a swift, I know it is almost always referred to as InterCity Swallow but the original cast metal emblems fitted to HST power cars etc were based on Swifts (ie Swift in speed).

Actually based on our photos the tail in particular is more a hybrid between the two for a start.
 

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It wasn't so much I was arguing what was the more accurate but more how it the design basis was a swift, I know it is almost always referred to as InterCity Swallow but the original cast metal emblems fitted to HST power cars etc were based on Swifts (ie Swift in speed).

Actually based on our photos the tail in particular is more a hybrid between the two for a start.
Tbh I wasn't saying which it was but giving both for comparison.
 

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Great to have stimulated a bit of interest. So far Chippenham, Coventry & Plymouth have been nominated to add to Lancaster. Any more for any more?
 

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Until about three years ago, the house next to my local pub in Hebden Bridge had a polished cast metal Intercity swallow/swift emblem attached to the gable end. However, when the house was sold, the former owners took it with them.
 

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A Stainless steel version of the Inter City "Swallow" emblem, measuring 32 inches x 34 inches, sold for some £2,700 through specialist auctioneers GW Railwayana Auctions in November 2019. See link...


Other (possibly smaller) examples have also gone for several hundred pounds and sometimes more.
 

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A Stainless steel version of the Inter City "Swallow" emblem, measuring 32 inches x 34 inches, sold for some £2,700 through specialist auctioneers GW Railwayana Auctions in November 2019. See link...


Other (possibly smaller) examples have also gone for several hundred pounds and sometimes more.
This is rather odd as I'm not aware of any other swallow going for such crazy money just this one. What was so special about this one? Generally they go for 300 400 quid max now.
 
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