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3. The layout of the signals is nicely illustrated. Some have commented that the UP home signal doesn't look right, in fact I have read somewhere that it is supposed to be bi-directional. I am no expert but that doesn't make sense to me. I think that it looks unusual, because it has a quadrant shaped sighting board below the arm. They were used if, from the loco crew view point the background made the arm's position difficult to read, either because of lighting or structures. The arm would fall in front of the white painted board. This is a similar, although less neat, version, just to the east of Newhaven Harbour.

I appreciate that. The photos are well after your period. I was really responding to the query about the tile making. My Highbridge Wharf project has widened my knowledge of the industries in the area. Much as I would like a brick works in my scene, I have enough with the timber yard, cattle dock and fuel brickette plant, actually in the wharf confines, which are all under way.

Now to be fair - a view of a diesel fueling point.

It certainly shows the numberplate as 4021 in the postcard which is at #2347.

Brick and tile works in the Bridgwater and Highbridge area were well established by the start of the 19th century. Bridgwater tiles were marketed nationally and Highbridge had three brick and tile works within a few hundred yards of the wharf and others the other side of the B&E mainline. Looking at early photographs of Mendip, there are few, if any, thatched buildings by then. There were some stone slab roofs, but most are tiled and mainly with pantiles.

Perhaps the death-knell of headlamps - unless someone supplies a set of diagrams for Southern lamps/discs.

No head lamps in sight here either!

The only oil lamp on a diesel I can find is on Western Yeoman at a Didcot open day, so that's a bit of a cheat.

I can either do you a postcard of GWR 4-6-0 4021 King Edward (renamed for the occasion, I assume) on King Edward VII's funeral train - 20.5.1910 or the royal helicopter - from 2014! Neither Dad nor I have snapped a royal train.

Bit of a learning curve for me, but Dad has a fair number of Southern photos, that I could trawl through! I hope all this grey matter exercise keeps senility at bay - or could it be that following this thread is a sign that it has already happened?

For J a rather fuzzy one, but it am fairly sure there's a lamp on the far end of the buffer beam! It's probably an empty wagon train backing in. There are full ones to the right, waiting to go.

Fairly standard kit - I wonder what sort of speed and distance records were achieved - outside Buster Keaton-type films1

I do hope they throw in a couple of Woodland Scenics packs in ---- http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/81491-birdcage-brake-3rd-body-winchelsea-beach-21-7-2006/

I did think I didn't have a G - there is one of an auto-train at Chepstow, but I concluded that it was probably the tail light and that the loco was propelling, then I found this very sharp shot of Ludlow Castle

Perhaps we had better start a new series of challenges. I appreciate that I am in a fortunate position of having Dad's archive, but it does give people an opportunity to see photos that would otherwise sleep on in his albums. As you will have seen my resources are mainly in the steam era, so perhaps someone with more modern images could kick off a new series. Or if it helps to release the log jam you can have this 'E' - It's quite a nice photo into the bargain.

Er - is anyone playing this game? I could finish on my own, with Dad's help, if no-one else has the photos!

I think this one fits the bill - without getting into the SDJR's non-standard use of the lamp layout. E next please

Not even a tram - I am sorry that in trying to get a more front on view, I seem to have distorted things - it mainly shows in the vehicles that look rather squat. Next a modern tramway system with a tram - please.

I am sorry it has taken me so long to catch up with this enquiry. I have uploaded a fair number of Dad's photos and some of mine to albums in my gallery here at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/member/14351-phil-sutters/ They are not particularly well categorized. I have tended to upload a batch in response to an enquiry or a thread that I have taken an interest in. A more comprehensive collection of our photos is on the ipernity photo sharing site, which I belong to and where there are group galleries, some of which I started. You can see my railways section at http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/538609 and if you open up an individual photo on the right hand side, go to 'See also....' and you will be able to access any groups the photo has been added to. Some firewalls have been known to object to ipernity, although the incompatibility issues may now have been sorted out. I haven't uploaded anything there recently, as the site has been the subject of a membership crowdfunded buy-out and its future is still being worked through. Thanks for your interest. Were he still around, Dad would be pleased at the number of enquiries and positive comments his photos have generated. Phil

The S&D right through into BR days used what is shown as class F above for its passenger headcode and the class D layout for its goods trains. Light engines had one lamp in the chimney position and shunters one in the class J position. The latter two positions are gleaned from photos.

Is this unusual enough? OK it was a special, rather than a regular turn with a replacement for a failed loco, which would probably be one of the main reasons for the requested scenario.

It is the joy it brings to the children that makes me return to this version.

At first I thought I only had half a sign, but then I spotted the totems! Plenty of 'W's on this line.

Some of the 'airline' seats on modern trains are ridiculously close together. Most of my journeys now are on 313s and 377s, which are OK in that respect, but I used to hate having to use a Cross Country Voyager, between Reading and Oxford, when I used to visit my mother in Oxford. They verge on being claustrophobic. I am only just over 6ft, so taller folk must find travelling long distances a real pain.

I do have one of Southease station's board in glorious isolation - both the sign and the station I suppose. There's a farm and a youth hostel on one side and a 10+ minute walk to the village on the other side across the Ouse Valley. But the opportunity is gone!