phil_sutters

It's a repair station, which appears to have tools available, secured by steel cables. It is unlikely that anyone will nick your bike while you are changing a tyre or adjusting the gear. Perhaps you Sydney types are too suspicious of Brisbane folks.

I get the impression that locos were sometimes just parked on the wharf towards the end of the S&D and certainly Dad has no photos of 2Ps working the Somerset Central line. There are also none on that line in the Newman Family website http://www.newman-family-tree.net/s&d/index.html, although they were a favorite class of Chris Newman.

In real life - a slightly different pair but the same location (I guess) in 1961 I still haven't got my wharf sidings and buildings going. Too much going on family-wise! http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/76386-bh04-4-4-0-2p-40563-0-6-0-3f-43216-ex-sd-no-72-at-highbridge-wharf-9-9-61/

Only a bit of this HST with Plymouth Ocean City vinyl - but Reading is so cluttered with OLE masts it was a pain snapping there. I don't know whether there were more HSTs with this advert.

Perhaps poor timing when there are snow flakes drifting past the window, but I just came across this, while looking for something else - as usual.

The Wrexham, Mold & Connah Quay Railway 0-8-0ST No 6 (The Queen) http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/79632-wmcqr-0-8-0st-no-6-gcr-400b-lner-400bc/

While we are into 'character' names! Here's Loopy Loo at Siemen's Northam Depot in 2005 Keep going on similar lines

I was was wondering where I had seen stripey chimneys before and seemed to remember some London County Council Estates had them. I had a look around online and came across this example which also has round corner towers, albeit without the conical caps.. http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-boundary-street-estate-london-england-4960219.html

I find it looks a bit odd, GWR sponsoring the weather forecasts in the South East region.

Watch out for cyber-attacks on your digital control units. Your coach lighting may come on in daylight and your new Andrew Barclay tanks will sound like Deltics. HSTs will crawl along while 08s will zoom round at 125mph - oh! that happens already.

You should have used a Kraft knife!

In a square near Tower Bridge - photographed in January 2006 - I now see that they have had their verdigris scrubbed off.

Talking of Smart cars, I saw this neat parking arrangement while sitting on a train at Guildford. I have seen a couple parked at right-angles to the kerb. Both were on fairly wide roads.

Well it is a lineside industrial scene!

Yes I added the captions in Photoshop. Most of my photos have captions either in the image or on a border. Apart from that and cropping the image to concentrate on the bit I was, perhaps unkindly, poking fun at, nothing has been changed.

I am sure you are right. Parked where it was, among the Hastings fishing boats, after active service, the seagull and its friends have probably caused the mucky sides.

Just in case there is anything of interest, I have two albums of my Dad's photos of railways in Somerset here on RMweb. We used to live four miles from Radstock in the late 50s & early 60s. The GWR album is here http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/4053-gwr-lines-in-somerset-by-john-sutters/ and the SDJR Bath to Bournemouth is at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/4074-sdjr-bath-to-bournemouth/ I once made a Sentinel using a Ks tender drive, some ancient wagon springs and axle boxes and balsa and cardboard - this was in my teens in the early '60s. It was so primitive that it doesn't get public viewings, although I still have it. Good luck with your foundry project. Phil

I don't know whether this is a cheat or not. It was taken from a DLR train, but you can't see any part of the railway, nevertheless it does show a lineside industry.

I started this thread but haven't added much after the initial few entries as I got bogged down in non-railway matters for some months and never really caught up. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/121206-sdjr-on-rmweb/ You will see in the listings my SDJR albums including the collection of Derby photos my Dad bought for me from BR. They are at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/4114-sdjr-official-rolling-stock-photos/ Colin Maggs' Highbridge in its Heyday has some further photos and a certain amount of information. There is a thread about published drawings of S&D stock at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/105332-sdjr-loco-and-coach-drawings/ I hope that helps. I am sure that by now you will have come across much of the info already, but you may find the odd useful lead. Best wishes with your hunt Phil

Bland modern offices beside the SWT platforms at Reading

This is the only source of goods traffic down the branch from Lewes to Seaford. Ash from the incinerator goes out and aggregates come into to Day's Aggregates depot.

Let's try industrial and commercial first - but not street scene/ local retail. I think we should be looking for something distinctive, and not too many of the same thing. The aim should be to give ideas for modelling backgrounds - full depth or low-relief - or scenic backdrops. Am I being too particular? This thread is often good when it is free-flowing. Perhaps if we give it a day, then switch to a different topic if there is a slow take up.