Littlehampton Locomotive Shed - photo source help

[Alex TM]

Hi everyone,

 

I am currently working through a few ideas for my next attempt at a layout.  One of these involves a small goods yard and loco shed based on a former LBSC line.  Littlehampton shed is just the right size, and I have scale drawings of it.  I am, however, struggling to find many photographs.  Most of what I find are either views of a loco parked at the entrance, or a close-up of one parked alongside; either way I can't find images of the rear of the shed.  Can anyone point me toward a source of images.

 

Thanks and regards,

 

Alex.

[Nick Holliday]

The loco shed is still there.  T ry Google Streetview like this:

 

[Alex TM]

Hi Nick,

 

It hadn't occurred to me to use Streetview.  That image already answers a couple of questions.  Now I think it's just an image of the tank that I'll need to find.

 

Again, thanks.

 

Regards,

Alex.

[decauville1126]

Might be of help:

 

https://thesussexmotivepowerdepots.yolasite.com/littlehampton.php

 

Seems the tank was quite curvacious!

[Alex TM]

Hi again,

 

Thanks for that link.  There are a couple of helpful, partial, views of the tank; I know have a much better idea of how it appears compared to the drawings.  The photo of B294 may be the same image I have seen elsewhere, though in those places it's been cropped so the loco fills the space.

 

Again, thanks.

 

Alex.

[Nick Holliday]

This view, from around 1920, on the Britain From Above website, shows a different view of the loco shed.

I took a number of photos of Littlehampton's buildings in 1995, but the tank had long gone, I'm afraid.

[Alex TM]

Hi again,

 

I think you may have just supplied the missing piece.  Again, it's a source I had not thought of.

 

Again, many thanks.

 

Regards,

 

Alex.