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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.

My trip around assorted London stations ended at Victoria, with the clock ticking on my Travelcard, so there's only one shot with an emu in it. I suppose I could have snapped the Southern trains but I have masses of photos of caterpillars.

The choice of masonry for the house is a good one. This photo taken by Dad at Wells shows the same kind of stonework.

Highbridge Works had its own workmen's train, formed of three four-wheeled square-panelled coaches. This can be seen in Colin Maggs' Highbridge in its heyday. It ran from Burnham to Highbridge station, where upon the workers had to walk to the Works, only a few hundred yards away. After a hard day's work they were able to board the train at the Works. Another interesting 'workmen's' train was the Peterhead Quarry one, which carried convicts to and from their hard labour in the quarry. Information about the stock that ran on this can be found at http://www.ipernity.com/doc/312383/album/620941?view=0 The contributor of that album has many more interesting restoration projects recorded in other albums - just click on the ALBUMS tab at the top of the page to see what else may be of interest to you.

On a lighter note - the driver of this distinctive little electric car was equally distinctive in his dress. He wore, once out of the the car, a black sombrero, black suit, a bow tie and shiny black shoes. He did not appear to be heading into a mariachi band performance. In fact he was last seen entering the Post Office.

I think would like a T shirt with this sign on it - the pace some of these things and their inconsiderate and illegal drivers zoom along pavements.

It was at the Bluebell recently. Lancing probably had to make do with Mayflower, backing through Hove recently. To a pub-sign decorator they probably look the same and they are both green.

Peckham used to be thought of as dodgy when we lived near there in the 70s - 90s. We were always anxious when our two sons were out and about working in the evenings or visiting the Venue in New Cross. Fortunately they were OK. Towards the end of our time in London it started to get more up-market, but even in 2007 there were plenty of oiks around.

See you on the other side of dark side!

Another lazy pub sign - Railway = Flying Scotsman. I don't know whether it visited Lancing on its recent trip south, but this was well before that.

Next stop Charing Cross - You won't be interested where I went next, but the DMU & DVT fans might - Is there a DVT appreciation thread? There is a DMU one. I can't believe there are fans of 68s. Enough clues?

I heard that he might also have a fondness for Madeleines.

Dad only had two Hymeks in his albums - this is one that illustrates, what appears from the above, to be a typical trainload.

... and so on to Waterloo East

He is acting as lookout for the man actually on the ladder. Mind you H&S wasn't as strictly observed at that end of BTM in the past. I am sorry that the 'Art Director' has gone a bit mad with the airbrush and the steam and smoke effects in this snap from Dad's albums. It does show you can run locos from other regions on a very Western layout.

One from 1991 at Oxford - http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/26435973/in/album/871204 - boring pale grey. One the other hand, nearby in 1990 - http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/26436881/in/album/871204 - could be a pale blue - unless Dad's colour print was a bit off colour.

I know not what was stored in this one, but even relatively small towns may have had bonded stores. This local wholesaler's store is close to Highbridge Wharf and the GWR station. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3681988

1966 and the potential advantages of a tender cab could be seen in one of these photos taken by Dad, especially when running tender first!

That ain't super glue. You just haven't painted your version of this Sussex landmark