phil_sutters

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.

That could make a nice transition to the background theme - this one is I suppose technically industrial although it is a very decorative building

Cattle wagons & coaster

Perhaps good industrial or urban backdrops could be a new theme when this one runs out - or flies off at a tangent! I have a nice one at Hove.

Curves & straights - Gourock - 1991 (I think)

If we are going to employ the scatter-gun approach - pick your shapes out of this lot!

S&DJR No 72 - model rebuilt c1968 - Triang chassis with an upgraded? 3F body & K's tender - this class were known on the S&D as Bulldogs (No relation to the GWR ones)

Warrior Square is actually a few minutes walk from the station

Some neat diamonds in the lattice post

I always thought that it was odd that a firm with Jewish origins chose to brand its goods with a christian saint. This one is little book from my childhood, which I still have, another was a Wonder Book of Railways from the early 50's. I have much older one that might have been Dad's.

All Dad's photos on the Bath to Bournemouth can be seen at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/4074-sdjr-bath-to-bournemouth/ Mind you he was never that interested in rolling stock and actually cropped photos down to leave just the locos. Good luck with your Radstock project. We lived four miles away in the late 50s & early 60s.

I picked up this copy of Edward Beal's 1947 'New Developments in Railway Modelling' in our local retro market, very recently. I remembered having one of his books when I was railway modelling in the 1960s and found it a very nostalgic read. I love the way it is described as being prolifically illustrated by the author and with photographs. It is the line drawings that make it so appealing. The front cover is plain. The title is on the spine. I expect that it originally had a paper dust cover.

Here's another Warship - Zephyr - at Bridgwater on the up van for the Bason Bridge milk train, according to Dad's album notes, on 25.2.1966

A rather fuzzy photo from Dad's albums - but it does have a loco with a Z

A Z class at Exeter St David's

I had a similar mono view, now with Hereford CC archives. Mine came with woodworm holes! (the white circles)

There you are at the exhibition - a lowly member of the crew just given the leaf-busting MPV to drive. You park it halfway down a bay platform, making a local passenger service unload right at the end of the platform. Of course you know that you shouldn't have parked there but you do have a precedent! Click to enlarge the photos and see how far down platform our 313 had to stand.

Yeovil Town, Yeovil Shed & Yeovil Junction

I have rewheeled Triang M7 chassis under my two S&D 0-4-4Ts! There weren't glowing fireboxes in them 48 years ago! They are parked on a makeshift diorama just for the photos.