phil_sutters

Subsequently found to have been from 1964

There's some really good stuff there. Have you tried looking on the backs to see if there is any information there? If they were mine I would want to see if they would come out from under the tacky film without removing any of the photographs' surfaces. When I inherited my Dad's photo collection, there was an album with similar film on it. It did not seem to have affected the prints, but the discolouration of the film did detract from their appearance, so I took them out and scanned them individually. You can see the result at http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/494007

Sunday visitor to Seaford

Having put this image into Google Lens - it appears to be an old Trix 3-Rail model. There seem to be other similar models about. To use Google Lens - copy your image, go to Google images and click on the 'Lens' icon/button at top right - and paste your image into the box.

A quick online search brings up Intercity maps upto 1994, with both Blackpool and the Intercity routes in the NSE area.

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Looking a bit tired, at about 53 years old, and with gold instead of yellow in the lining. I have yet to replace the GWR grab handles with the elongated reversed 'S's in SDJR style. I only put steps on the 4 & 6 wheeled stock and did little to the under-solebar areas, apart from LSWR white metal bogies.

I escaped briefly from 3-rail country and visited Marylebone for only the second time in my life.

The vegetation in the U1 photo looks like it was growing on chalk rather than concrete. The Terrier is just there to look pretty.

Presumably building materials would be required for building residential and business buildings - whether farming or crop processing or manufacturing. So brick, timber, sand, cement, corrugated iron, steel joists, glass etc. I guess these loads would not have been great or that frequent, but they would, like the farm machinery mentioned above, provide variety in the traffic.

I thought for a moment that ONE was back in business.

Seaford Station without a van - just a car at the edge - and some builders' bags, probably waiting for a van to pick them up! The road isn't wide enough to get the whole building in from a frontal viewpoint. I made a detour on the way to get my Sunday paper, thinking that Sundays may offer the best chance of a vehicle-free shot. The main roof was re-slated recently, following complaints of water penetration in the flats above. The single storey parts, which are let out commercially, haven't had the same treatment. So don't worry if your stock of roofing materials isn't adequate to do the whole roof!

I think this ought to be in the 'When the real thing looks like a model' thread - that tree looks as if it has come out of a packet of 10 from Noch.

Ah but that's cheating. Have you noticed that if you look at buildings in Streetview, from different directions you sometimes get photos taken at different times, with different details . My one of London Road goes further downhill - it has a skip in it!

I didn't mean the blue itself. It was the overall livery that was altered by the different coloured doors and so wasn't as authentic. I don't recall seeing any 313s on the East Coastway with pantos, 377s yes. I must check back through my 313 album. Later I have checked now and found two snaps from 2010, but none since. One was 313 203, the other was a side view at Bishopstone, both in 2010 and both near Bishopstone. So they both could have been 203. Were those that were retired from other areas the ones that had them to their withdrawal?

In fact the Coastway vinyls would have been a far more appropriate and distinctive livery, if one was going to save one. The blue job wasn't even an authentic BR blue as the doors had to be painted differently for elf&safety reasons. Didn't they have pantos when they were blue?

I have just realised that all my photos of the second Hove station and Seaford station, which have similar designs, all have vans parked in front of them except one. That has a scaffolding lorry parked outside, while the scaffolding, used while a new roof was put on Seaford, was being taken down. I must try to get a clear view one day soon.

Should anyone be using the 12 or 12A to visit this show, as mentioned in the notice - please note that the stop is now called Belgrave Road. Beacon Road is the next stop west and has traffic islands adjacent to it which makes crossing the busy A259 safer especially as there is a fairly sharp bend between the two stops. Also note that the 12X and 13X do not stop at either stop. All routes mentioned run between Brighton railway station and Eastbourne town centre.

For photographic purposes too much shine can be a pain, especially if your position in relation to the loco and the sun is fixed. Mayflower's smokebox door was catching reflections off the shiny rails and Tangmere caught me unawares and in an unfavorable position at Hastings. Having been around at the grimy end of steam, I sometimes would like to see locos of that era represented as they were. The final years of Highbridge S&D were populated with grubby Ivatt 2-6-2Ts, Collett 0-6-0s and the occasional 3F. I can appreciate the hard work that goes into the rolling stock on preserved railways and on special excursions, but somehow the cleanliness doesn't fit with my recollections and I don't get the same sense of a working railway. Strangely it is the smell of the smoke and grease that is most evocative. I hope no one finds a way to Fabreze that!

Thanks for bringing these delightful models. It was good to see them close-up.

One breakfast I always remember was on an annual CCF (combined cadet force) 'camp' at HMS St Vincent. Everything came out of the standard rectangular aluminium cooking trays. Bacon rashers swimming in fat, tinned tomatoes, deep fried fried bread and fried eggs - with anything from 0 to 2 yolks and possibly parts of other yolks at the edges. They were cooked en-masse in the tray and then sliced into regulation squares without any regard for the presence of a yolk - again swimming in fat.

Nasty drizzly rain. No point in getting wet at the beginning of the day. Tomorrow looks at lot better. Glad to be down here rather than up north.

I shall be there tomorrow, unless Babet is too unkind, then it might be Sunday. Unfortunately someone was misguided enough to remove the tracks from Lewes, so I shall have to change onto a Brighton and Hove Regency Route omnibus.

Oh! I forgot, wasn't a Southern 377 caterpillar I got to Brighton, it was a red Gatwick Express - two versions of the same train.