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You have made a superb model. The build and painting is superb. I am looking for some help. I am trying to create a model of GWR 1460. According to my research this engine was aquired from the B&M. It was not a classic metro tank but one that B&M asked Stephenson to copy the GWR Metro design. The B&M owned 7 or 8 of these engines but all except one was worn out by grouping. I have no idea if this loco ever run on the GWR system - but it was given a GWR number then it is a possibile. Would anyone be able to guide me on what (typically) immediately post grouping what GWR livery and insigna would aquired engines have carried? Here is a copy of the engine in B&M war time black. I have made another that I want to reflect GWR days but have no idea on the lettering or lining. All my painting is with "shaky can" paints so if anyone could recommend a paint type that would also be useful. Many thanks

On the Pennsy, they were referred to as "pot" signals. If it survived my move, I have one somewhere.

Thank you James, that was most informative. Wood edged platforms could be a possibility. They would have noticeable disadvantages over conventional materials though, such as the cost of having to have some whopping great big pieces of oak creosoted probably up in Sunderland at Armstrong Addison Ltd. Or if the SECR creosoted its own sleepers in bulk then perhaps those would have been used at no cost to the company? On an unrelated note, are those what we call in the USA "dwarf signals" to the left of No 16's tender in your post? Douglas

It is almost a Virtual 2mmFS Minimeet with quite a number of 2mmFS layouts represented

Did you see the Rapido announcement of a 5 plank in Engineer's Dept. black. https://railsofsheffield.com/products/45085/rapido-trains-uk-906010-oo-gauge-secr-1347-5-plank-open-wagon-br-engineer-s-black-ds14157

Thanks as well Rob... Hmmmm! Hattons Genesis in S&DJR Prussian blue.... There's a thought....

Good to see a pre-Grouping project taking shape. There will be others far better qualified than I to comment on SE platforms, but here are two examples that seem to offer some encouragement. Halstead, a SER station opened 1876 and later known as Knockholt. This is a wooden station. The platform appears to be masonry, however, as it looks to be edged with brick (quite common a common alternative to edging stones). The view is given as c.1880. Another SER timber wooden station of the period, Bromley (1878) is said to have had platforms "edged in timber". Quite what that means, I'm unsure. Considering Bromley, is it possible to interpret the edging at Knockholt as timber planking, not brick? Whatever the construction of Knockholt station platform, the effect is of a smooth, rendered, platform face beneath the edging. The only other example I have so far spotted is at the LCDR's Canterbury, later known as Canterbury East, of 1860, in a picture dated to the 1890s. Here the platform is very striking, with no apparent edging/coping or overhang, it looks like nothing so much as a huge concrete slab, you can even see where it's chipped at the edge to the right.