This is an introduction to my other significant collection, this time representing English counties (plus London) based on the counties that existed at the times my family and I lived over the years.

Each loco in this collection will have a separate profile describing how I arrived at my choice of prototype and a photo.

In order of date from the earliest where my family lived to the latest:

Suffolk

Norfolk

Lancashire (mum lived in Liverpool during the late 50s/early 60s, and again briefly during the mid-60s)

Warwickshire (Birmingham, early 60s)

Cheshire (Wirral, late 60s)

Hampshire

Surrey

West Sussex

Greater London (during the last years of the Greater London Council and afterwards)

Dorset (Bournemouth, late 80s)

West Yorkshire

and if mum's plans go ahead for her move, the East Riding of Yorkshire.

I moved to West Yorkshire after it was officially abolished in 1986 as a county council with planning powers, etc. but it's still a "ceremonial county" as defined by the Lieutenancies Act 1997 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England

and Metro (West Yorkshire's integrated transport authority) operates within the borders of the former county.

Photos will follow in due course.