Blogging should really be a fairly regular thing to maintain interest. The above picture does have a railway connection. It's from the facebook page for Cardinal beer Cardinal Beer - facebook which is featuring quite heavily so far in plans for the Iscatalbahn. The actual brewery Cardinal Brewery is a Swiss one and I will readily admit that I have yet to try their beer. LGB have made 3 LGB wagons for the brewery:
No 40284 (current)
No 42285 (fairly recent)
No 4034 (older period)
Back in the days when I was looking for particular colours (at a reasonable price) for the shunting puzzles, then the Cardinal wagons came up as yellow. I currently have a couple of 42285's and one 4034. Getting a 40284 is on the "to do list".
A post Christmas purchase was the following book which arrived yesterday:
A quick look suggests I will have lots of pleasure from it. Black and white photographs for obvious reasons, and some of the site maps are a bit small but lots of ideas and inspiration. Sixteen breweries are featured; six at Burton on Trent, The Guinness plants in London and Dublin, and the rest from around the country, including Oakhill Brewery, Somerset, which will be the nearest to me.
Lots of inspirational photos as well. A lovely little 0-4-0 Bagnall loco ("Mendip") that was used on the Oakhill brewery:
And a picture of Vicotorian visitors being taken round the Guinness factory, so another use for the LGB Excursion coaches:
£4 plus £2.50 P&P off ebay. Highly recommended at that price if this is your sort of thing. Plans are in hand for kitbashed expansions to the Cardinal Brewery fleet as well.
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