MR Chuffer

Agreed, but over 5 different pumps from the same brewery? The Small World Summer Bank that went on at the same time is near to perfect, but a little on the light side for me. The world can always do with more good beer....

Of course, it might be as many Lancashire beers are different to Yorkshire beers, which I generally prefer due to water quality. But let's get this right, I want as wide a range of beers available to taste and enjoy as possible and the whole batch of Durham beers delivered to the Dog has missed the mark so anything that can be done to up their game is beneficial to us all. Take the Wakatu NZPA, I love a NZPA, Hawkshead being there at the top and I had a Hophurst NZPA in Hebden Bridge last Friday - delicious, but a week after it went on, Wakatu is still there, I couldn't face another pint of it yesterday so I actually had 2 pints of cider instead - sacrilege. On the way out, a friend showed me his half finished pint in a straight glass, it was dead as a dodo, no froth clinging to the sides of the glass, as appealing as a glass of cold tea. Hawkshead, Ossett Excelsius, Brewsmiths APA and other heavy hitters go in little more than a day in our pub. I also tried a couple of pints of 28 Days Later (IPA), similarly unenthused by the flat taste when there are so many other medium strength beers we have that are zingers, e.g. Goose Eye Chinook, Vocation Bread and Butter and Pride and Joy, Ossett White Rat and Silver King, etc., again, these only last 2 days at max. Best wishes.

My local, the Dog Inn in Whalley in East Lancs is renowned for the quality of its ever changing range of beers but this week it looks as though there's been a tap takeover as 5 out of the 6 handpumps is a Durham brew. By common consensus they are quite insipid by comparison to regulars such as Saltaire, Ossett, Roosters, Vocations, Brewsmiths and the many other popular beers we are used to. Perhaps they don't travel well?

In my particular version, if I understand you correctly, the bolections are finely already etched onto the sides and for my other Wizard kits too.

I have the 1st/3rd luggage composite in my "kits to build" drawer, as Stephen says, etched brass with whitemetal fittings. Can't comment on quality as I'm an etched brass novice, but it seems ok, very fine detail, as do my D529 4w brake and my D490 43′ Bogie Third Carriage Kit, I think I snaffled the last one during lockdown.

Can someone help me out, at £40 + VAT are these pre-painted sides, like the 7mm versions? Hard to discern from the Slaters web site.

I think your humour/irony switch must have been temporarily disconnected this Saturday morning, if you follow the "tongue in cheek" comments more closely...

Can you justify this? Is it your evaluation of what were the biggest cities, thinking Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield, Hull, Bristol, York might be in this list but I don't think the LNWR directly served some - if not all - of them. If running rights counted, then the Midland was pretty much on a par.

No, the Midland Railway advertised itself as "The Best Way", and it clearly was....

Or snails added to milk to make it frothy and seem fresher than it was....

... Which can be evidenced today by parking under the venue

Just taking the Midland as an example, there were huge beer storage vaults under both St Pancras and Manchester Central

And there are records of L&Y excursions heading north into Scotland from the northwest pre-WW1.

Aha, and a photo of a Midland single veranda brake facing "the wrong way"!

The lettering, shouldn't it all be upper case as I have read elsewhere on here that lower case on shop signs and the like only started to appear post-fifties.

Buy at your peril, search this forum - avoid!

I tired the link in my summary that you display and its works for me, it shows the (a) product on ebay but states Out of Stock, sure there are plenty more as this is a standard product for building lathes and other track machinery. Is this what you meant?

Apologies for the shameless bump, but is there no input or words of wisdom on 4mm backscenes with Ashlar constructed buildings?

Page 106, Rails to Ripley - Howard Sprenger. 1207 on Boxing Day 1925

Ashlar is a type of masonry (not brick!) which is finely cut and/or worked, is characterised by its smooth, even faces and square edges and is a common material used for house and industrial building across broad swathes of northern England. There are several model kit ranges including ashlar e.g. Metcalfe's Settle and Carlisle range, Scalescenes and others, but ashlar back scenes to complement them, I cannot find. Any suggestions suitable for 4mm welcomed, we're talking dense Northern housing scenes (and industrial) with an Edwardian slant - thx.

Access was from the compartment either side for each of the two lavatories only. I recall travelling to school on the GC from Rothley in the late 1950s in a similar, more modern non-corridor coach and thinking "weird"....

The tunnel scene was filmed at Britannia Tunnel, Bacup on the Facit line to Rochdale. See a photo in Disused Stations.

Of course they did! I have some modelled myself, @Compound2632thx for correcting this.

Just dug out your own initial reference ...

They were unpainted, i.e. bare timber, sometime prior to 1900 but I can't find the exact date at the mo.