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Looking for photos and information about the nice little 1/76th 3D printed plastic kit of a US Army WW1 Liberty B lorry I have just bought, along with a really dinky little printed resin Model T Ford tourer, I came across a whole bunch of WW1 short films showing the US Army transport units. This one has some steam railway cranes. https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/124108191-1918-american-soldiers-motor-transport-corps-are-seen-operat There are others with assorted trucks - a mixture of their own and some acquired from other combatant nations. What I have established is that the Liberty trucks mainly went back to the US, with a few remaining in France and Belgium. So rule 1 will have to apply to see it in use in post war Somerset. The vehicles came from Paint and Glue Miniatures

I would like to see the S&DJR at the end of the blue livery period, as the Midland and LSWR liveries were being introduced (imposed). I suppose the line between Evercreech Junction and Burnham would provide the locations - so that I could visit the Wells and Bridgwater branches and see the rail and sea traffic at Highbridge Wharf. A look inside Highbridge loco, carriage and wagon works would be the icing on the cake. Evercreech would allow me to see the Bath to Bournemouth trains. I suppose I could force myself to see the GWR on the Weston to Taunton line. If Dad were around I am not sure which era he would choose, but he would greatly appreciate the ability to take a digital camera with him and not be constrained by 24 exposure roll films.

Ancient Intelligence can only do it in monochrome

The loco-hauled version did pop round in 2022.

Abe is an umbella organisation for dozens of small booksellers and you will find a huge variation in their prices and postage rates. This* is one of the lower cost options. I may not have ordered from this supplier, but the Abe Books sellers I have used have been very efficient and generally accurate in their description. I have also found similarly priced copies at WoB (World of Books) when you factor in that their postage is free. * https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31714908282&searchurl=an%3Dhammond%2Bmartin%26sortby%3D17%26tn%3Dbricks%2Band%2Bbrickmaking&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1

Very unlikely!

no, no not this Seven Sisters, although there are more sheep hereabouts than in north London.

Careful! Mind the gin trap!

I know it well. It is at the outer limit of my walks in that direction. It is a tiny hamlet with a church that seems too big for its community. It is currently a 'Chapel of Ease'. No longer a parish church, it is in theory available for baptisms, weddings and funerals. I seem to remember reading that there are only two places in East Sussex with double-barrelled names. The 'East's etc don't count. The other is Horsted Keynes. The chalk quarries are difficult to photograph because they are glaringly white, although a bit toned down in this shot!

..or is a descendant of another of Henry's children.

Now there's a nice name for a very rural, railside, little village - Wryly Humourous - especially as someone has actually done Tarring Neville. I never did find out what crime Neville had committed.

The island madness got me thinking about the Bristol Channel island of Flat Holm. I have never had a look at the island, apart from an occasional view from the Somerset Coast or from the odd paddle steamer excursion from Weston to Barry. It actually had military batteries and an isolation hospital on it. Clearly enough for a small narrow gauge system. It could have been on the Sherbro's route from Burnham to Cardiff and received coal, timber and rail supplies from passing S&DJR coasters. I could land one of their little locos at Highbridge Wharf to be carried round to the Works for an overhaul and repaint. I wonder what range of colours would be available there?? Stop it! Get on with some modelling!

Perhaps this is one for 'When a real train looks like a model' Look at that curve - the effect of a telephoto lens. Taken from the new Newhaven Port Access Bridge 1+ miles away. This was 377 316 at Newhaven Town crossing 9.1.2024. The waffle is because the pic was going into an environmental thread in my photo-sharing website.

The even wooden frame looks too light compared with the restored carriage interiors on the IOW Steam Railway. This map may well also be a reproduction. In 2018 the IOWSR had some then current posters in its carriages produced in a period style.

The ones with the spaces are usually those with a week's supply on the strip - so 7 tablets 1 space.

Would the foil packaging from pills /tablets work I wonder? Some of the tablets, my wife and I have to take, have blank sections in the strips, where there are nice squares of diamond pattern foil. How they scale out I am not sure. Different tablets have slightly different patterns. If you are fortunate enough to not need medication, maybe a friend or relative has something useable.

'Free recipe book worth £4.95 when you commit to a Countdown course.' Is that one where you end up with a figure like Carol Vorderman or Rachel Riley?

Today's post - flyers from two opposing dietary regimes. Take your pick! My approach is as AY might say - moderation in all things😊

Before it became a port, as the mouth of the Ouse silted up leaving Seaford, a former Cinque Port, with poorer and poorer access to the sea for shipping, the village was called Meeching.

Is the blue section the harbour, with the ferry berth on the terminal side of the projecting quay and the cargo wharf on the side that you have your cranes? The idea of having more off-scene cargo facilities up-stream makes sense. Newhaven actually had cargo wharves, both to the north and south of the swing bridge and at an earlier period on the other side of the river. This photo, from the Our Newhaven site, shows the type of crane in use in the post WW2 era. http://www.ournewhaven.org.uk/page_id__1361.aspx?path=0p69p82p Newhaven was a busy port during the wars and the dock facilities were geared up to handle much greater traffic than before, especially towards the end of the war. The Newhaven - Dieppe route was the most direct to Paris.

A useful source of photos, including aerial shots, of Newhaven is the Our Newhaven website. http://www.ournewhaven.org.uk/category_id__69.aspx While I realise that you are using Newhaven as a starting point - a small ferry and cargo port with SR railway services, there are a couple of points. The ferry terminal is on the east bank of the river so the plan should be the other way round. The other thing that needs consideration is how the goods traffic connects with the cargo ships and what facilities it would need - cranes etc. I hope you can work out a good layout and have fun bringing it to life. Currently the site of Newhaven Marine is the access point for the aggregates terminal, visited by class 66s and passed by 377s on their way to and from Seaford. Happy New Year.

If they are of any interest there are photos of the Oldbury's under restoration in this album.

Happy 2024 all!

You can get a bit more exotic than a Collett 0-6-0. If City of Truro can use the route for running in, after restoration at Swindon, then anything under the appropriate weight restriction could visit! There's your three coaches as well.

Not quite sure if this is modelling. 7 year-old grandson saw a birthday cake I had decorated for an earlier grandson's 10th birthday and ordered a lifeboat cake. He has the misfortune to have his birthday on Christmas Eve. It is very, very loosely based on Newhaven's western 'arm', which used to have a railway line on it. So it's a non-railway model with railway history! My wife is the cake baker - according to her this is a diorama with a soft centre.