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Two for the price of one Bang away!

More of the same please - BR blue.

As Santa seems to be too busy at present to put in any more appearances and as time is running out on 2017, may I offer this wild card and hopefully start a new challenge? Are there any more clocks out there? Preferably interesting old ones but any will do.

Platforms 1 & 2 at Brighton serve the West Coastway. At the other end of the run on a trip to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard with a couple of grandchildren we came across this. Presumably it has other functions than Overhead Line Inspections as we were deep into 3rd rail electrification territory. Only a bit of this loco as my camera locked up for some reason after taking that shot. ( A bit of the 'turn off - remove the battery and card - put them back in, then turn on again' routine eventually got it back to life) and a few more taken at Hove

A couple taken on a visit to a well-known shop at Ford. I had forgotten how different some modern model shops are from the W&H and Hamblings of my model making days in the '60s. Everything in sleek well-lit display cases, at prices I wouldn't want to spend. None of the boiler fittings or other small parts. I bought a couple of points and left. How is it that these 377s look so much better than those hideous Scotrail 385s and indeed SWT/R 444s with their ugly projecting corridor connections?

The branch from Lewes to Seaford was closed to traffic and rail replacement buses were running. It was a Saturday when track work is often done - avoiding Seagulls' home match days of course. The level crossing was open for road traffic along the A259 loop that serves Newhaven port to north and south. There is a flyover that carries the through traffic.. The crossing is controlled by the rather tatty Newhaven Town box. My understanding is that the track work was in the Lewes area, but I don't know the nature of it.

I am not sure whether I have used this one in this thread previously - apologies if I have. Let's widen the scope and ask for trains with any species of animals, please.

I don't know whether they are still there - satellite maps suggest they are - but there are some slightly less extreme versions just down the Thames from Tower Bridge

This is how she looked four years earlier - the coachwork was in better nick then - just!

An Austin Swallow and a Fraser Nash snapped at Arundel in 2005

There are a couple of bikes in my new Glasgow Mueum of Transport album - http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/84047-harley-davidson-motor-cycle-glasgows-museum-of-transport-c1990/

I like the modern high-tech danger signals used during a possession back up the line at Lewes. Incidentally there's another possession today - yet more work on Newhaven level crossing. I think it would be more durable if they infilled between the tracks with sticks of licorice. Perhaps when they close the port and stop the ferry service, because they can't find the customs officers to staff yet another small port, after Brexit, the euro lorries will stop chewing up the crossing!

When I was supposed to be doing something else, allegedly more important, I got round to scanning the Museum of Transport in Glasgow prints. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/4405-glasgows-museum-of-transport-circa-1990/

One of my favorite 'shooting from the hip' shots!

That reminds me I have some prints from our visit to GTM Kelvin Hall which I must get round to scanning!

It's foreign but on British soil! More foreign stuffed etc please!

Another railway exhibit in a transport museum - not an operating preserved railway - next please.

As we sat eating lunch a couple of days ago we had a delightful visitor, who hung around long enough for me to go and get a camera. If the images look a bit soft, that's because they were taken through double glazed patio doors.

Is no snow better than no show? A snowy scene without a snowplough next please.

A train passing through a level crossing next please

A mountain railway in another country - please

A flat bit of track on the other side of the country - please.