Some things don't change
An early version of Delay and Repay: 1873 and the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway was paying compensation for 'detention' due to late trains
Hefty sums for the time, wonder how long the passengers were detained for?
From company accounts retained due to court proceedings

So, in Carmarthen in 1861 railway engines were like horses and needed a stable...
From the minute book of the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway. I've heard of stabling rolling stock but I don't think I've seen it used like this. Was it common mid 19th century?

Working from home is all well and good until you go to the kitchen to make a coffee, look out the window and discover there are more cats than birds in the tree in the garden...

Working on Barry Railway shareholder list from the archival material at the National Library of Wales. John Ballinger owned 5 ordinary and 1 preference share. After a career in public libraries in Doncaster and Cardiff, in 1908 Ballinger became the first librarian at the.. National Library of Wales

Got to love the American PI novel and what people did with it. Dave Brandstetter was gay, his lover Cecil was black and this was in 1984. Boundaries were being pushed. Matt Scudder is a long term favourite although Block's Hitman books perhaps have an edge (but not about a PI)

Latest completion. Airfix Bf110C. Didn't do anything about the flaps going across the back of the engine nascelles but did add Eduard aileron mass balances, cos it just looked wrong without them. Quite pleased and I do like a bit of sandgelb 🏝

My current reading. And I wonder why I have a headache? One is for fun, one is for study and one because it looked interesting.