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bass.jpg (50328 bytes)"A brewery?" you ask (Oh, didn't you?) "What do you want photographs of a brewery for?" Because there's a steam engine there of course! There's also a giant beer bottle on wheels, but I didn't get a picture of that. I might have been imagining it of course....

Anyway, enough of the waffle, Burton-upon-Trent used to be full of railways and breweries. Now they've got a shortage of both, but they do have a museum with samples of them readily available. I gave the beer to my brother, who is the expert in that sort of thing, but the steam engine, or at least a picture of it is here.

Only an 0-4-0 (or, a 0-2-0 as the French would say (that's 0-B-0 if you're German)) and sitting on an very short, isolated section of track with no chance of going anywhere. In its heyday (what is the derivation of 'heyday' I wonder?)

burton.jpg (54720 bytes)Burton used to look something like this, with breweries and train lines all over the place. The picture is just a small section of an enourmous model of the town center (center??? Damn, I'm typing in American again. Do you know, some boring twit from the states went through our Advanced Driving web site and complained that I'd spelt 'colour' wrong. The cheek of it! We invented the blooming language didn't we?) in the museum, which, I may say, is well worth a visit. And don't even think about getting me started on about Americans and aluminium.....