And finally…

Thank you for your responses to the caption competition in issue 284, showing the fireman of J27 No. 65894 in a deckchair on the back of the locomotive's tender. Unsurprisingly, there were some `tender behind' jokes in the crop, but the one that made us laugh the most came from railway book dealer Nigel Bird: “If only beer came down that pipe, I could live

up here.”