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Just a few from this year's London to Brighton - a couple of dozen more here - http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/1355718

Could do, but I wouldn't want to be underneath, when chunks of parapet balustrade crash down from a great height. I really like Hangleton as a destination, but I have never been out in that direction.

If you are modelling the current scene you need to get a good stock of greenery to plant on and around your infrastructure. I don't know whether this guy or his mates will actually move onto the more crucial Buddleia forest that is growing along the London Road Viaduct in Brighton. In my experience in premises management for a social services department, Buddleia is a chronic pest, which gets into paving and wall mortar and weakens structures if not removed. It can also be seen from ground level sprouting from the coping along the top of the parapets.

There are further views of London Road Station in my Brighton & Hove stations album -

Finally - no vans - no skips! On my way to the Brighton MRC show.

GWR 4-6-0 no.36 was a one-off heavy goods loco built, in 1896, to work the Severn tunnel line. It had a more conventional outline. 4-6-0 2601, shown above, was again a one-off, built in 1899 and a development of 36. The remaining nine Krugers were 2-6-0s built in 1902/3. This information is courtesy of Railway Magazine April 1928*, 'Modern Locomotive Practice on the GWR'. So maybe the Krugers reached wherever the Severn Tunnel coal trains went. That half-year volume is the only one I have, but I knew I had seen a Kruger somewhere and that seemed a likely place.

Even by 1950-52 there were still grimy locos about. But not all! I imagine 2793 was recently ex-works.

All the photos I have in Dad's collection of LNER photos that have L&NER are from very early in the post-grouping period. These are a couple of examples. You can probably find more in this album http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/494007

There are more photos of Alliance in the other, photo-sharing, website that I use. http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/499693/@/page:7:18

While captioning some photos of HMS Alliance, taken at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport, I noticed the proliferation of cigarettes and matches in the messes. So I went to look up the regulations. I came across this Hansard report from 1951, in which Royal Navy officers are complaining about restrictions and lack of clear guidance in the regulations on the issue of tobacco products. One was a Surgeon Lieutenant Commander encouraging smoking. How times have changed! https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1951/jun/21/royal-navy-duty-free-goods

Current subscribers to Railway Modeller have access to the complete online archive of that magazine. If you can find a subscriber in your area may be they could access it for you. In 1985 Model Railway Constructor published a 'Model Drawings Reference Book' listing drawings up to that date, across all the four magazines in publication in that era. Whether there are any copies out there I don't know.

Subsequently found to have been from 1964

There's some really good stuff there. Have you tried looking on the backs to see if there is any information there? If they were mine I would want to see if they would come out from under the tacky film without removing any of the photographs' surfaces. When I inherited my Dad's photo collection, there was an album with similar film on it. It did not seem to have affected the prints, but the discolouration of the film did detract from their appearance, so I took them out and scanned them individually. You can see the result at http://www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/album/494007

Sunday visitor to Seaford

Having put this image into Google Lens - it appears to be an old Trix 3-Rail model. There seem to be other similar models about. To use Google Lens - copy your image, go to Google images and click on the 'Lens' icon/button at top right - and paste your image into the box.

A quick online search brings up Intercity maps upto 1994, with both Blackpool and the Intercity routes in the NSE area.

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Looking a bit tired, at about 53 years old, and with gold instead of yellow in the lining. I have yet to replace the GWR grab handles with the elongated reversed 'S's in SDJR style. I only put steps on the 4 & 6 wheeled stock and did little to the under-solebar areas, apart from LSWR white metal bogies.

I escaped briefly from 3-rail country and visited Marylebone for only the second time in my life.

The vegetation in the U1 photo looks like it was growing on chalk rather than concrete. The Terrier is just there to look pretty.

Presumably building materials would be required for building residential and business buildings - whether farming or crop processing or manufacturing. So brick, timber, sand, cement, corrugated iron, steel joists, glass etc. I guess these loads would not have been great or that frequent, but they would, like the farm machinery mentioned above, provide variety in the traffic.

I thought for a moment that ONE was back in business.

Seaford Station without a van - just a car at the edge - and some builders' bags, probably waiting for a van to pick them up! The road isn't wide enough to get the whole building in from a frontal viewpoint. I made a detour on the way to get my Sunday paper, thinking that Sundays may offer the best chance of a vehicle-free shot. The main roof was re-slated recently, following complaints of water penetration in the flats above. The single storey parts, which are let out commercially, haven't had the same treatment. So don't worry if your stock of roofing materials isn't adequate to do the whole roof!

I think this ought to be in the 'When the real thing looks like a model' thread - that tree looks as if it has come out of a packet of 10 from Noch.

Ah but that's cheating. Have you noticed that if you look at buildings in Streetview, from different directions you sometimes get photos taken at different times, with different details . My one of London Road goes further downhill - it has a skip in it!