Foxfield, Stoke-on-Trent. Locos are both four coupled - Marston Thompson and Evershed Ltd No3 in the background, and Kerr Stuart 4388 in the foreground. (View Post)

A gratuitous use of my image allowance! (I thought this more interesting than Leon's pictures of his dinner). I'm currently in sole charge of not one, but two steam locomotives in steam. I've been he… (View Post)

Her main virtue was (and is) that she isn't Robert Generic, who was like a bad parody of a Tory leader. Actually listening to her at PMQs, I'd say she isn't as bad as the media want to make out - som… (View Post)

To be fair, it's not really Kemi's fault we're all talking about this. She made some fairly offhand remarks about what she likes for lunch in the middle of a longish interview, and the media has prom… (View Post)

I seem to recall Reform were roundly mocked before the election for a proposal in their manifesto very much like this. I suspect that the this will hit the usual problem with trying to find savings i… (View Post)