swampy

Try this... https://emgs.org/virtual-show-2021-welcome-closed/virtual-show-2021-demonstrations-pre-group-wagons/

Also visible is a wagon longer than the others, maybe an ex-LYR double end door open , with one end boarded up, Dia 81 or 83 possibly. and possibly two ex-LYR Dia 99 vans at the back.

ISTR there was a full page photo of a train made up of these MR sleeper wagons with (very blurred) similar large LMS lettering in Bill Hudson's "Through Limestone Hills". Haven't seen a copy for ages, though, so I may be wrong about the photo, or even the book. Perhaps someone with a copy could check.

It's Father Stone. Apart from the pose... and hospital... and she doesn't look like Ted...

Shades(!) of Model Railway Constructor in the sixties

Last Wednesday, the same Lidl also had some micrometers in stock.

Middle of Lidl (at least the one between Halifax and Bradford) has some digital calipers @ £9.99.

Based on Maritime Pit at Pontypridd ( he writes )

In his book "Model Railway Layout Design", Iain Rice showed a multi-level plan for a South Wales based pit, "Deep Navigation Colliery". Pete

Loco profile no 37 has a works picture of 6225, with the caption commenting that the ventilation louvres were added to the 1938 batch of streamliners, and were therefore missing on 6220-4 (as built). So it depends what number you're modelling.

Having lived in Klagenfurt in Carinthia/Kärnten for a year in early 70s as part of a German degree, I can sympathise with German speakers trying to understand Austrian or Swiss dialects. I lodged with a family who originally came from a remote valley near the Slovenian border, and it took me a couple of weeks to get the hang of "Karntnerisch", which apparently Germans found hard to understand. Some of the the southern Austrians I meet on holiday are surprised to find an Englishman recognising their accent, and asking if they live near Klagenfurt.

42 endings? 7 cases x 2 (singular and plural) =14 x 3 genders =42

Mike , there is a detailed GA drawing no 1829 of the Diagram 21 brake van in the "Virtual Museum" on the LYRS website. The end elevation shows the lower footsteps as 1 and 3/8" thick; the upper veranda step looks to be the same , drawn about half the size of the 3" floorboards. HTH Pete

I think there is a photo of a train of these sleeper wagons in Bill Hudson's " Through limestone hills", but as I don't own a copy, I could well be mistaken. Pete

Thanks a lot, I'll pass it on. He's a retired engineer, and should appreciate the technical info Pete