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A genuine 'wow' looking at that - I can almost hear it coming towards me, passing through the carriage washer at Old Oak on its way up to Padd with a rake of empty Mk1s... wrong number for an Old Oak machine of course but you get the picture. Fabulous!

Nothing will really change 'on the ground', it's another Labour pipedream which won't really go anywhere. As a railwayman, a former Labour voter and a member of a trade union which used to be the most militant on the planet I ought to be onboard with it, but I still don't believe a word of it. Starmer is as deluded now as he was the day he became 'leader'. It'll no doubt keep the already converted onside coming up to the election, but I'm not convinced at all that it will improve the railway as a whole, either short or long term.

Photo by the late and much missed John Vaughan : 31 412 trundles along the down ECS line towards Old Oak on 3rd May 1980...

Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience...

Pretty Flamingo - Manfred Mann

I presume this is one of Roy's - my all time favourite Airfix kit... Did he do them all or were other artists involved?

I came across these recently whilst looking at historical FIAT stuff...

A couple of recent finds while looking for other Italian stuff...

Photo by John Atkinson : 37 263 at East Croydon station on 20th April 1978...

Photo by Russell Ashmore : Tinsley Driver Pat Burns gets on the phone at Sheffield Midland in June 1982...

Peckham Rye station appears in the first episode 'Ringer', with Dennis Waterman chasing a petty villain along the platform. (It's fifty years this month since the pilot episode 'Regan' was shot!)

Photo by Stu Armstrong : Thornaby...

Photo by Andrew Neil : Willesden TMD c.1966...

Photographer unknown : Paignton, 1959...

Original photographer unknown, photo c/o Ian Farnfield : an unidentified 27 at Coalville in the mid to late '60s...