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Somehow all the brass, brassy/copper and lining seem to be inappropriate on a goods engine, although the prototype clearly was decorated in such a fashion. The biggest disappointment in the appearance is the cab side lining. It seems far too wide and doesn't follow the lines of the cab side. The yellow seems disproportionately wide. The corners seem too rounded. As with the post above, should I need one, the plainer versions are likely to look better. I am aware that these comments overlook the appropriateness of the livery for a particular period and the many detail differences between individual locos and groups of locos. I haven't a clue which version our K's white-metal was in the 1960s - it was just a Dean goods, which we painted plain green and ran, rather stiffly, on our 1930 layout!

Greene King, Bury St Edmunds? Would that have influenced the choice? The S&D had their own pub close to the station The Somerset & Dorset Hotel. Of course a GWR green king might have travelled on the Bristol & Exeter line a mile or two to the east, although I am not sure that they were allowed across the Somerset Levels.

What a versatile loco. Who would have thought of them now hauling the Caledonian Sleepers?

As with Waterloo Station, shown above, Blackfriars also has some of the main communities its trains served displayed in the northern entrance hall. Some of them might have required a change of train and indeed railway company and some sea-sickness pills! At the other end of the station, which now extends right across the river Thames, are the two remaining cast iron armorials, of the London Chatham and Dover Railway Company. The offices of another constituent company could still be seen in 2006. I am not sure of the fate of the South Eastern Railways building, as it lies under the northern flank of London Bridge Station and the current Google Earth street view is of hoardings, scaffolding and polythene sheeting. This is how it looked in 2006. It isn't shown on Historic England's site as a listed building.

Eastleigh works & shed - a number of in service and withdrawn Southern locos.

I used to see a lot of 73s at Hastings & St Leonard's Railway Engineering This is just one trainload - taken from different viewpoints

A photo by one of Dad's friends which has Southern stamped all over it

I think that my first Southern experience was a holiday in Margate in 1953. I was very taken with the King Arthur class and their romantic names, one of which is below.

From trips to preserved railways

A collection from Dad's albums

A bunch from a local event in 2015

...and now some of my own efforts The final photo is at the northern end of the sidings, which serve the Days Aggregates depot and the Newhaven incinerator.

First a batch dragged out of Dad's albums

This lady appeared to be travelling alone. I don't think that the lady to the right was accompanying her.

Not my photo so only a link - but these buffers seem to have celebrity status - http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/news/2015/buffers-installed-15-07-2015.php. The real things are just about visible in this print of Dad's. Originally they weren't there as the track ran down onto the jetty, as can be seen from the gradient post in the final photo in the linked article.

Another mixed batch

A dockyard scene I am sure counts as industrial 1 7 1957.jpg]

Newhaven's industries are waste recycling and building aggregates. There are regular trips into the couple of sidings north of Newhaven Town station. Aggregates come in and waste ash from the incinerator, seen in the background with the tall vent pipes, goes out.

I recently heard a story from someone, who I would regard as reliable and usually well-informed, that someone had come across what appeared to be a railway horse box in a farm in South Wales. Having taken a tape measure back to it he realised that it was broad gauge. When he spoke to the farmer he said 'Oh there's several more old railway wagons like that around the place', but they were in much poorer condition. The well made roof of the horse box seemed to have preserved that a bit better. Has anyone else heard that story?

Seaford's platform used to be two-sided, with a slightly shorter bay to the right. That was platform 1. When the line was reduced to a single line, from the Newhaven Marine junction, all that was left was Platform 2. We now have a situation where one hears announcements that 'The train now arriving at Platform 2 is the service.....' Visitors must wonder where Platform 1 is.

Only a small contingent of the orange army in this one.

He's probably supposed to be his lookout/minder - but as the branch is shut down all the way from Lewes, which is probably 8 or 9 miles north, he is not exactly having to overexert himself.

Photographed at a local school fete, I think that this has connections to a local cadet unit.