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White-van-man has taken over the railways!

There's at least two 2-4-0s one on the bottom row and what I think is a Beattie well-tank on the far right. How about 4-4-0T next please?

I am not sure how this one will go, but here's a really underwhelming one to start with. The more used entrance is through the equally underwhelming Elephant & Castle shopping centre. The platform level can be seen top left.

A couple from diagonally opposite corners of England & Wales, and one from somewhere in between. I think we were in the Church Stretton part of the country, but I can't remember which station the third photo shows. Thanks to 96701, we now know that it is at Ludlow. Ashford International -

Aren't we forgetting who had whitish trains before anyone else (I think) & also c2c. The Stansted Express used to have a apple green stripe, but that now seems to have succumbed to the white/grey regime.

A few more from the south coast

I don't know whether the National Army Museum in London still has any exhibits outside. This was the collection on view when I visited back in the 1990s or possibly earlier. These are scanned prints, so it was in my pre-digital era. (Edit - looking at them again, I think I may have made a couple of visits)

There are a couple here but they are really only given away by the front edge and the back scene. OK my photography is not too sharp but I think they have done a pretty good job, although a spot of strategically placed luggage would have disguised the platform join a bit better. Oops - forgot to set the next quest. Seeing the roundhouse above, how about engine sheds / mpds with more than two roads?

Another before and after to start with - Forest Hill - a local station when we lived in London. Lewes' bridge is at road level and has four sets of steps and a long ramp - as well as the more recently installed lifts, which seem to be out of order quite often. Now for some of Dad's mono photos and finally a sad one!

A rather more modest offering this time

Less of a footbridge - more of an upper concourse - with retail units and coffee bar.

OK - before & after its recent replacement. The bridge is wide enough for three or four mums with buggies to go across abreast - although it would be quite a slog climbing all those steps. Get to the beach side and the path goes down to a narrow mud track. Perhaps NR knows something about future developments in that corner of Newhaven.

A fire in a skip company yard. The building in the background is the Newhaven incinerator, which was not affected.

I think that this was approaching Stratford from S International. I didn't realise I had one taken inside a tunnel. The DLR ones are lit.

How does this fit with the 'tunnel' definition?!

Two for the price of one - but you have already seen the other end of the Hastings Tunnel and I feel sure Bo-Peep has had a mention somewhere on this site - anyway

How right you are! Thanks for the correction - captioned amended.

This 66, running light out of Hastings Tunnel, was probably involved with delivering or collecting 73s, for overhauls or modifications at St Leonards Railway Engineering Ltd.

Found with two other A.H.Malan prints in a house in North Somerset and passed to Dad. I have now given the set to the National Archive. 2-2-2 Wigmore Castle, Box, c1893

A small batch from the Imperial War Museum, London. The number of AFVs located there has been reduced with some going to Duxford etc. Some of these may well no longer be there.

Oh dear - another thread to make me rummage in my files! I have only included AFVs and SPGs, but have the other artillery pieces available if deemed appropriate.

This lot falls into two main groups and some single subjects. The VJ Day commemorations in 1995 saw HMY Britannia and HMS London joining HMS Belfast in the Pool of London. As a prelude to the 2000 Millennium celebrations HMS Belfast was towed to Portsmouth for a repaint. I used to work about 10 minutes walk from Tower Bridge and purely by chance, in my lunch hour, I became aware of blokes with cameras and several tugs lurking around the bridge area. I established that Belfast was being towed out and I hung around, being senior enough to extend my lunch hour - I was on flexi-time anyway. I took photos then, which I can't currently find. I made sure that when the return trip was due I was there again - and these are the resulting photos, together with some photos before and after the event. The rest are of one-off visitors to the Thames.

I have not discovered whether Dad & W.Vaughan Jenkins went on any photography or spotting trips together, They may just have exchanged letters and photos. W V-J's handful of photos in Dad's collection are of extremely high quality and I hope that there are no copyright concerns with using this one here. I have 'published' his work in other photo-sharing sites and have had no adverse comments on the copyright front.

There's a lot more than 5 houses, but they are a long way off, so I hope no-one will be upset. The fuzzy edges are because I use some of my photos on fund-raising greetings cards.