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Could it be the ED wagon in the centre of this display? I wouldn't know whether it is a B/L or not, or even the correct scale.

This is the clearest and conveniently credits its collator, who credits Lens of Sutton as his source. The headgear suggests an Edwardian scene, although fashions may have changed slower on Mendip. Making the 'chip' baskets would be a doddle for someone with a 3D printer.

If you are fruit carrying, are you putting in the racking that was fitted to carry the baskets and crates?

Strawberry punnets are a sweeter option. There are photographs of the baskets being loaded into siphons at Axbridge and Cheddar, for destinations like Sheffield, Bournemouth and the Midlands. Somerset & Avon Railways in Old Photographs and the Middleton Branch Line to Cheddar have an illustration each.

Thanks for your information. As you can imagine I was working with very limited information and a fairly tight budget. Atthill and Barrie & Clinker were my only books, to which my Dad added the collection of official Derby rolling stock photos. The under parts were the things most compromised on. I didn't really think about axleboxes and brake gear. But I was fairly young then!

Nobody was around to tell me that 'red' meant 'red oxide' back in the late sixties! Assorted wagons on a variety of chassis. Peco Wonderful Wagons, Kenline, Hornby Dublo etc. The Highbridge-built (prototype & model) Radstock shunter still needs its Salter valves.

You are of course quite right. The caption has been amended and uploaded. Thanks for pointing out my error. The join between the units was in the least visible location, but it was still a daft mistake.

Later ................... I see that they are offering free places instead of rrp. £95!!!

A quick grab shot or two as I was passing Seaford station. Match day 4+4 combo. Brighton went down 1-3 to West Ham. Edit - photo wrongly captioned as a 9 car train. Apologies!

AI = absent intelligence. Would you want to pay to participate an educational 'summit' whose marketing used such poor grammar and spelling? Academy should be academia.

Looking through the adverts in Railway Modeller, they were advertising from the London Bridge shop up to December 1979 at least. From 1980 onwards the RM archive doesn't show adverts in the magazines. They made it easy to track their adverts in late 1970s, as they highlighted a miniature vice - possibly on a suction base. So I could quickly identify their ads. Previously they had been all text. They were usually in the final four or five pages of the mag. I was a bit of a vulture in those days. I remember going to the closing down sales of Hamblings, W&H and ABC, which why I seem to have a rather random selection of railway bits. I recently donated/dumped a whole load of card kits, from various manufacturers, on a local club's secondhand stall.

Made a nice change from traipsing up and down the South Coast I would have thought, but then as a temporary Londoner for forty years of my working life, I do like to catch up with the London transport scene from time to time. They do seem to keep their stock clean and tidy.

There were subsequent shots as it crossed over that showed more of the NHS vinyls, but I wasn't aware of the unit's number. Thanks.

This is the only snap I have of the shops in the approaches to the station. Sorry about the graffiti. It's out of period as well - 2015.

Another slightly closer view of an anonymous 377.

To return to 377s - albeit in somewhat distant views. In the lengthy process of waiting for just the first four entrants in the 2023 Lewes to Newhaven Raft Race, I saw several Seaford/Brighton trains running along the line just north of Days Sidings. The raft in these shots was the third placed and the least exotically decked out. To see the other three you can visit my snaps on my ipernity pages. http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/1289376/@/page:5:18 http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/1289376/@/page:6:18

There is/was also a small bus facility immediately outside the station. I believe the Emsworth bus company is no longer in existence. A shame as the example shows a very nicely presented bus.

A bit earlier

Prior to The Shard's arrival Guy's (hospital) Tower was by far the tallest building in the area. The municipal occupants have since decamped from the City Hall building to a less expensive location.

Not wishing to clog up your inspiring thread, I have rounded up what photos and spotting log pages there are in Dad's archive (there could be more log pages, but I only searched for those that were identified by photos taken on those days) and put them in an album at

Not a very clear one I am afraid.

Have you thought of using etched hand wheels, possibly ones designed for larger scale models?

Given that Sutton Bridge was a port with a saw-mill alongside the River Nene, it is likely that the timber is starting its journey inland, having been shipped over from Scandinavia. In that case maybe the runner has been parked there, while the wagons are loaded at the sawmill and they will then be backed down to pick up the runner, before having a guard's van added.