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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.

Can I now slip in an un-canned Yes Tor?

I think that it is Templecombe and the lad on the platform may be me - which would probably put it about 1954 - - Edit - trying to find the date I came across this better scan - from a print this time, although me and the distinctive signal box have been cropped out.

S&D Loco History shows the coupled wheels diam as 5ft 3" and the bogie wheels as 3ft 0". The wheelbase was 8ft0" + 8ft6" + 5ft6" 22ft oa - The standard Avonside version is at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/77578-sdjr-0-4-4t-no-13-avonside-1877-to-1930/ in my album and there is a later version with a different chimney, safety valve and dome, from about 1906, adjacent to it.

Yarmouth - IOWSR

Yes Tor is my first Y offering

One from Dad's LNER print collection - I try not to source from photos that aren't his, mine or one of his friends - but we are in Xtremis here!

More signalling Xs on the covers of the new signals awaiting commissioning.

Xs are going to be hard to find on British railways - can I offer a flat Xing - where the S&DJR line to Burnham, crosses the Bristol & Exeter at Highbridge. The lines cross right under 7242.

Thank you for mentioning Vobster Quarry! I lived at Coleford a couple of miles away* in the 1950s and our first model railway ran from Coleford to Vobster. I went looking for photos and found that the quarry is now a diving centre, but among loads of photos of people in wetsuits and diving kit there were a few of the working quarry. These led to the discovery of the Quarry Faces website. What a mine of information I was going to say without realising that was the wrong industry reference! *We could hear the sirens and blasting at specific times of the day.

X Country at Reading - the lady boarding seemed to be travelling alone

W for Wantage Tramway