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Although the loco was coal-fired it wasn't coal as we new it. It was more like what we used to call "brickettes" ,I think.

It was coal fired .

I first visited the Douro line in 1968 and travelled from Barca d'Alva to Fuente de San Esteban on the once a day cross border train. There were no through carriages from Porto conveyed and the only other passenger train on the line did not cross the border. I was there during the last week of...

Perhaps if they rename Penn Station,Trump Station, they could use these words on the plaque; "My name is Donald Trump, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!"

In the north of England there used to be a device called an autovac which returned the beer in the drip tray to the barrel. This was particularly popular in Yorkshire but could also be found here in Lancashire. This is now outlawed.

Church bells are still weighed in imperial however. At the church I am a ringer at the tenor bell weighs 9cwt 1qtr 19lb or 479kg.

There would be no technical reason why real ale could not be brewed in accordance with the demands of the Reinheitsgebot. Finings couldn't be used of course as the swim-bladder of the sturgeon isn't mentioned in the purity law. A top- fermenting yeast would have to be used to create an ale but...

There were some exceptions to the general rules of the Reinheitsgebot though. The very popular Weizenbier was made with 50% malted barley and 50% malted wheat. Because wheat malt is not very fermentable it was permitted to use some sugar in these brews. This sneaky move wasn't allowed for...

The EU have said the the Reinheitsgebot can no longer be legally enforced in Germany. Even when it was it didn't prevent the use of hop extracts.

In the late 1980's I visited a brewery in Morlaix, Brittany, called Brasserie Coreff, which had been founded in 1985 by two French men under the supervision of Peter Austin, founder of, among others, the recently closed Ringwood brewery in Hampshire. All the draught beer was real ale served...

As a spotter at Leyland in the 1950's I remember only Semis (Duchesses) on the Birmingham to Glasgow day trains. In summer the Edinburgh portion ran as a separate train and , I think, was usually a Jubilee.

I have an old Melodya LP of some music Shostakovich wrote for a cartoon film called "The Priest and his servant Blockhead" which might be appropriate in this case.

I vote for Slade "Merry Xmas Everyone"!

There's one still in use in my house!

I once got off at Hof Hauptbahnhof!

As a child my favourite pop was Dandelion and Burdock made by T & R Smith of Chorley.When I became of age I transferred to Thwaites Best Mild. Although they no longer brew this I find Holts Mild or Bank Top Dark Mild acceptable substitutes.

He's a closet Marxist!

I've been a member of CAMRA since 1972 and have drunk hardly anything but real ale since. I don't mind other people drinking keg if they want to, it's easy for them because every pub in the country sells keg beer of some sort. I don't know any real ale pub that doesn't also sell keg but I've...

111 Preston to Wigan is now 110 and is operated by Holmeswood. 337 Chorley to Ormskirk and 347 Chorley to Southport are both now operated by Vision Bus. .

I wonder if the people promoting St George and his flag realize that he was born in Turkey and lived for a long time in Palestine and couldn't speak English? Since being canonized he has been the patron saint of Moscow and other places. He would probably be arrested if he came here.