Little Welsh railways have had lots of reasons to thank Victorian carriage designers in the last year, as compartment stock has become the solution to running Covid-safe services.
I suspect the walls between the seats was probably more to do with wanting to keep the riff-raff away than concern for keeping out infectious diseases - although all the No Spitting signs on the old Glasgow trams show us that was also on their minds.
The more we learn about the current pandemic also gives us a greater appreciation of the excellent ventilation afforded by all those droplight windows on the more traditional carriage.
All of which will no doubt make the new replica Pickering brake carriage a very welcome addition to the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway fleet.
As you can see from the image above, I've started work on the interior for our model.
Already I can see that his fancy idea for disguising the vacuum pipe bend, which means the chassis has to be fitted with a twisting motion, is going to have to go.
Get the cutters out....
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