He is clean and young and straight and far removed from the shadow procession I watch night after night, the procession that came to me early this morning and wakened me shrieking in the presence of a compartmentful of shocked strangers.

But while it's great that Caskett finally happened, things didn't turn out so happily for one of Castle's other fan-favorite pairings.

The afternoon sun was getting low as the Rat sculled gently homewards in a dreamy mood, murmuring poetry-things over to himself, and not paying much attention to Mole.

But like almost every other business sector, the Coronavirus outbreak in March has forced every single heritage railway to shut up shop for several months... at a time when they would normally be at their busiest.