The song lampoons the " single track " nature of the A-status road and depicts unsuspecting tourists dodging tourist buses and fish vans, and returning from Mallaig by train instead.
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When the UTA took it over, the BCDR had 29 locomotives, 181 carriages and 25 other coaching vehicles, 629 wagons mostly covered vans and wagons but also including some 6-wheeled fish vans, and 54 service vehicles.
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In Sweden the P1800ES was nicknamed "'Fiskbilen "'( The Fish van ); in Germany and Switzerland it was nicknamed "'Schneewittchensarg "'( Snow White's coffin ), because of the all-glass rear hatch.