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Mr Crowley, Ozzy Osbourne

2-4-6-8 Motorway, Tom Robinson Band

Oxford Road already has a platform 5. Why would it need another?

If You Have Ghosts, Ghost

Wildest Dreams, Asia

Strangers in the night, Saxon.

The would normally be MK4 coaches, class 91 loco and a DVT at the rear. It is possible that a HST power car could be on the rear. The buffer fitted ones initially worked with the 91s before the DVTs were built.

Restless gypsy, WASP

S0 if" A railtour is anything that isn't part of the normal passenger timetable" what does that make rail replacement buses?

Cat scratch fever, Ted Nugent

Lights out, UFO

Rock and roll children, Dio

Long long way from home, Whitesnake

Western Ranger had red backed nameplates during its last few months of service. It was withdrawn at the end of February 1977, so the photo would have been taken in the locos first year of preservation.

California dreaming, The Mums & Dads

Heartbreaker, Pat Benatar

My apologies, I meant to say the Mumbles Railway was electrified in 1928. The original horse drawn line did, as you say open in 1904. Steam traction was introduced in the 1870s.

I have found a video on Youtube filmed from a train leaving Swansea Victoria heading for Pontarddulais. The esplanade seems to run parallel to the line from Swansea Bay Station, its not on an embankment, more of a low sea wall. The track is covered in sand, blown from the beach. On the landward side there is a grass area then a road. It aws filmed in 1964, which would be after the Mumbles Railway closed. If the original photo was taken a few years earlier than first mentioned, the Mumbles Railway wouldn`t be there because it didn`t open until 1928. As for the view across the bay, how big would Port Talbot steelworks have been in the 1920s. I really wouldn`t have a clue as to its size. I would assume it would have opened in the late 19th or early 20th century. There may not of been that much to see from a distance. I think the buildings and signals visible in the background are Swansea Bay Station rather than, St Helens Road Station, which had a large footbridge at its western end.

Running along the edge of Swansea Bay. Somewhere around Brynmill or St Gabriels. Heading away from Swansea.

I spotted the deliberate mistake. Only close friends call him Stephen.

Under the gun, Blondie

Fly to the rainbow, Scorpions

If you look on Barrowmore Model Railway Groups website, ther BR Diagram books. In the one titled "British Railways Diagrams of PO Wagons, Part 1" on page 169 of 266 is the diagram of MODA95780, diagram no, PX010A.

Shot in the dark, Ozzy Osbourne

Unfortunately it was destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.