phil_sutters

This Abbey didn't qualify as a Minster or Cathedral, but it does a grand job with a signal box and train

We are getting close to zero hour - what next? Signal boxes with one or more trains or light engines passing? They are a bit more recently seen and in larger quantities than turntables, although many are on the way out or have already been made redundant. I can't remember what we have had already earlier in the thread.

To complete the picture - but there is something about the 'look' that reminds me of Dad's two OO Bing 2-4-0Ts - one LNER green and one LMSR red - I do wish I hadn't got rid of those, when the succeeding Hornby 3 rail went! Our local retro market seems to have a steady 0 tinplate element - I don't know whether it's the same stock getting moved around or new stuff coming through - I haven't really looked closely at what they are selling.

Did PG take over from Inkpen? The type of solid moulding looks very similar.

I don't think I have offered this one before. I am not very organised about logging what I have uploaded where. On some sites one can pull up all your own entries to a particular group or thread, which makes life easier. Anyway here it is - (If I really wanted to be kind to Dad, I would clone out those telephone wires, that spoil his photo.)

If you are planning on running a clockwork version, this might offer a good place to put the key without making an unsightly hole in a side tank

As they have included a south-bound route in their logo, perhaps they are going to take over the Brighton line - a good idea as their management is reported to have undertaken to keep two staff on all trains!

Emerging into the sunlight after diving under the Thames and East London - 26/5/2015

I think that it is supposed to represent the routes radiating out into the south west quadrant. My immediate reaction to the livery on the carriage sides was that it reminded me of the deep whitish panels on LNWR stock - but that's probably going to put me in LNWR fans bad books. Perhaps rail liveries should be like London buses - a basic colour scheme with different logos. That would make it cheaper when the franchises changed - but I don't suppose the savings would get passed on to the passengers.

A DLR train passing the Limeharbour building south of Canary Wharf.

These were taken on a trip around the Docklands Light Railway with two grandchildren. Southern's child £2 flat fare can include a London Travelcard, if the accompanying adult has one. So a trip to London, from the south coast, and a day around the DLR area comes in at under £20, with a Senior railcard.

Usually I wouldn't put in such a fuzzy old photo, but as the precedent has been set by the last one, here is one with horses pulling carts. They are near the right-hand end, in case the fuzz is too great! Shall we leave the animal world and head on to the road - any form of steam road vehicle - roller, traction engine, steam lorry or van?

With Mallard and Bittern that should really open up a whole load of birds from that class, but perhaps no-one has LNER/ NE region photos from the period - Dad didn't seem to snap any.

We have been peacefully expanding our territory by digging big railway tunnels, under the Channel and London and dumping the spoil around the coast at Samphire Hoe, Kent and Wallasea Island, Essex. So there is a railway element to this discussion.

This gull has pretensions of grandeur. No one said it had to be a loco- did they? It's not even at Three Cocks Junction, but it's come from there and it's in the caption - and we are getting a bit desperate aren't we?

There are some cows in the bottom field in this photo. Just as well as I seem to have missed the train out of the shot, but that's how real rural railways are - lots of time with no trains. Any sheep around?

I don' think that I have used this one in this thread - so I offer you Seagull - not one of my favorite birds, living as I do by the sea - noisy and messy birds.

I do have a couple of Warship class Zephyr but that name has already gone.

I stood in the garden this afternoon with my grand-daughter and said "We haven't had many butterflies this summer, apart from Cabbage Whites." She agreed. Almost immediately this Clouded Yellow came along and your couldn't miss it in flight - a real flash of bright yellow, At rest the colour is somewhat subdued. While waiting to see if we could get a shot with its wings open, a Red Admiral landed on the summer house and one of the small blue species flitted across the lawn. There was also the regular trio of Large Whites.

Looking at a very grainy Britain from Above photo, in the 1930s, there was a building beyond this, one almost double its height. There appeared to be a large chimney from your building running up the blank end wall of that building, roughly at the centre point of the party wall. I can send you a copy of that section but it is very indistinct and the roof and any features on it are not discernible. When the neighbouring building went, would be the time that the new roof was installed I guess. Perhaps maps of your period would indicate what was adjacent to your terrace then. edit Looking at another view from 1946, from the other direction, that building had gone and the immediate area was flattened - bomb damage perhaps. Again the roof is very indistinct but there look like chimney breasts on the outer wall of your building. My guess is that the current and 1980s structure date from the immediate post-WW2 rebuilding era.