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Do we take it that all arrivals and departures must be at the platform road? Which way is up?

I'm reminded of those Polish friends of mine who say that they were taught Russian in school, but did not learn it. I don't speak LNER myself but know enough to translate where necessary. But this all begs the question, what were WNR structure colours? Presumably the more-or-less ubiquitous two shades of brown? And did the WNR S&T Dept use them or have its own preferences? Or was the signalling contractor also responsible for maintenance?

Spoons?

By no means. LQ was well nigh universal up until well into the grouping period. The perception of GW exceptionalism in this respect is a classic example of looking back through a BR steam lens - always bound to fog the picture. Hope you are both on the mend.

Splendid. I've had one sitting in the to do pile since it came out - a bit intimidated by rolling the plates, but I've now got a set of rolling bars... Not so long ago @Jol Wilkinson commented over on the Small Suppliers subforum that he'd not seen any of these built on RMWeb, which made me feel doubly guilty!

Driving into Derby last Saturday, from Ashby by way of the Swarkestone Bridge, I was perturbed by this rather disturbing sign: [Embedded link to Wikimedia Commons.] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allenton_hippopotamus.

Don't push, pull: [Embedded link to catalogue thumbnail of MRSC 69343.] Not that there's that much wrong with pushing: [Embedded link to catalogue thumbnail of MRSC 61647.] Though most of the photos of singles double-heading show them working in pairs, which makes one pine for a Johnson Atlantic... [Embedded link to catalogue thumbnail of MRSC 66714.]

Steam?

Due to the lights and the works being the responsibility of different contractors?

That was in the days when schools could afford class sets of textbooks. Handouts are a false economy - the economics of poverty, locked into spending more because one doesn't have the capital to afford that which would save money in the long run.

One thousand pages and this is the level we're at?

Intended.

Oh dear.

Looks suspiciously like a scene from James Cameron's Titanic?

Far from it. Yellow Submarine was the first piece of popular music of which I was really aware, though it was not until quite a few years later that I learned that it was by the Beatles. I wasn't two when it came out.

As far as I'm concerned, mid-December 1964 was the turning point.

All I know is that half of Lexi's former vicar went to be vicar of Horbury Junction while the other half became a Canon of Wakefield Cathedral.

Normanton is perhaps the real biggie you've missed - a small mining village between Wakefield and Castleford but the junction of the Manchester & Leeds (later L&Y) and York & North Midland (later NER) with the North Midland and the home to major refreshment rooms with the traditional half-hour luncheon interval for the day Scotch expresses from the opening of the S&C in 1876 to the introduction of dining carriages in 1893. I can't off-hand think of any places on the Midland that took their name from the railway, unlike Horbury Junction on the L&Y not far from Normanton, home to Charles Roberts Ltd. - though I suppose there must have been a Horbury for the Junction to take its name from.

Like many vocational jobs, the satisfaction gained by doing it has been screwed out of the system by management and process.

There was one issue maybe a couple of years ago that carried adverts for three exhibitions, two of which had taken place by the time the magazine was published, or at least, distributed to subscribers, and one of which was the following weekend (as far as I recall); and indeed to be fair it has been much better of late.

Ah, yes, the MRJ approach to exhibition advertising...

Good. Still alive then. I have the impression that attending shows takes up a lot of time and energy. Evidently it's commercially worth-while but it must impact on the mail order side of things, to say nothing of production.

Listed as a trader at the York show over the Easter weekend. Were they there?

I'm now speculating on the military uses of French Maids' outfits. An extension of the use of the kilt by the Third Foot and Mouth?