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The plinthed tank loco at Catania is a standard gauge 980 class rack locomotive which worked the line between Paola and Cosenza in Calabria. Here's one arriving at Cosenza with a train which includes a through carriage from Rome I photographed in 1971. It had pushed the train up the mountain but...

Sounds very fishy to me!

In Preston in the 1970's ladies of a certain age would go up to the bar and ask for "a beer please". The bar person would then serve them a half of mild.

My dad bought his own chimney sweeping kit for cleaning our two chimneys. He also lent them to neighbours so they could do theirs. He didn't do weddings though.

Definitely, I had a red London Midland Region one. You had to fill in a form and send it off to Ian Allan. I can't remember if there was a charge.

Although I enjoy reading this thread I have never traveled on any of the Anglo-Scottish sleepers. I wonder, therefore, if anyone who has, will be watching the new Nightsleeper series which starts on Sunday on BBC1. The Radio Times says it is a " real-time thriller about the hacking of a sleeper...

Here's a photo I took of No5 Mona approaching Ramsey in August 1968 a few weeks before the St Johns to Ramsey line unceremoniously closed. The train is a mixed one carrying fuel oil from Peel to Ramsey. A supporter of the railway had decided to use the railway and reduce freight traffic on the...

There's certainly one here in Leyland on Hough Lane, also one in Preston on Fishergate and one in Chorley on Chapel Street. The company are based in Bolton. I recommend their pea and ham soup with its large chunks of ham and thick peas.

In Russia it's an Iron Road or as they say a железная дорога.

Talking about whistles, when I travelled on the Madrid to Badajoz mail in 1967 I was impressed by the deep toned whistle of the large RENFE locos which sounded like 76 bass trombones and were constantly in use at every minor level crossing. Here's a photo of 4-8-2 241F2411 somewhere between...

Whereas the Welsh stick with railway or Rheilffordd.

Although in English it's a railroad or railway in most of the major European languages it's an iron road or way. For example Chemin de fer, Ferrovia, Ferrocarril, Caminho de Ferro and Eisenbahn. The Dutch Spoorweg does seem to refer to the track or rail though.

The hotel and the adjacent inn have both been bought by Lees.

Whitbread have just sold the Craigside Hotel in Little Orme, Llandudno to the Manchester brewery J W Lees, so at least the beer should improve.

I was a 1950's nobbly kneed trainspotter with a school cap and a Bluebottle voice and with an Ian Alan London Midland Region loco-spotters club badge on my school blazer.

Today watching Fishwick buses running through the streets of Leyland but knowing that tomorrow, like the Brig o' Doon, they will be gone.

Nor me. I like the way they look after my moral health as well. When I purchase a copy of Viz magazine the red light flashes and someone comes round to check if I'm ok to withstand the terrors of the Fat Slags, Fru T Bun, Eight Ace and worse of all the Real Ale ****s. After all I'm only 80.

Tonight I shall be settling down to watch my recently acquired 6 dvd box set of The Likely Lads and Whatever happened to them. My Sony blue-ray player gives a far better account of them than I remember my old cathode ray tube telly ever did.

Earlier this year I proposed Marstons as a candidate for extinction. Well they are certainly progressing well towards achieving that. Having formed a joint company with Carlsberg to operate their brewing division, Marstons have now sold their 40% holding to Carlsberg, giving the Danes total...

My 1958 edition of the "Observers of Railway Locomotives of Britain" edited by H C Casserley states the BR standard class 84000 to 84029 "all are motor fitted for pull and push working" Of the LMS version, 41200 to 41329 he says "many motor fitted for pull and push working". I remember both...