I've known guys who ballast their tracks with stone taken from the exact quarry that the LMS used in "his" area in 1935 (Ashover if you must know)

Scratch built, EM guage too no doubt. Love it - seriously. I have at the back of my mind a layout based around the Backworth Colliery of my childhood - my very own Imagined Village which might never get out of my imagination, not for another 20 years or so anyway...

Sure 'Fakelore' had its faults, mostly in the overstretched political dogma,

The more I hear about it the more I want to read it, overstretched political dogma and all.