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That's my last triple digit offering.

This was among the many family photos I inherited from my mother. I haven't a clue where it is. There is a second water-colour showing the port of Piraeus that appears to be from the same source. Whether the two are connected geographically I am also ignorant.

R.I.P. Windsor Davies.

44411 arriving at Burnham on an excursion in 1962

As there don't seem to be any more 333s, here's a 444

333 anyone?

I like the weathered look of your cattle dock. They often seem to be modelled in far too pristine condition. I will need some 00 cattle wagon passengers at some point in the future. Why are the only ones I can see, on sale, painted and therefore pricey or white metal -ditto- ? Does anyone do ready made blocks of cows, perhaps by 3D printing? I know internal dimensions will vary but blocks of three or four could work.

Today the station at which to alight for the ferry is actually the Town Station. The Harbour station has no access to the ferry terminal. It may well increase in importance, as there are funded plans to develop the East Quay area for trade and light industrial use. The County Council put a road in to the east of the current industrial and retail parks some years ago and it has sat there with a couple of roundabouts with short stubs off them ever since. The new plan includes a new bridge to extend that road over the railway, as it heads to Seaford, and the creek that used to serve the tidemills.

On the multiple stations theme, Newhaven has Town, Harbour and had Marine. The last is still there but has been stripped of any buildings and train services. All were LBSCR. Harbour and Marine's names changed from Harbour Hotel Station and Harbour respectively at some point after the 1938 OS map was published. I am sure someone in RMwebland can fill in or correct the details.

You definitely need to check the generated name to see if it is actually a real place - like Eastbourne - or a very close match - Catcote for Catcott - which I spotted, with a couple of others, when I took the generator for a few spins. I get disappointed when I see a layout advertised on a magazine front and it bears no relation to the real place or it is a significantly fictionalized version of somewhere I know. I won't name names because I got told off for criticizing the use of a suburban Southern electric station's name for a layout based in the West Country. So I support the idea of this generator, if it helps people to get a realistic sounding name, without using that of a real place, when they are not modelling that place.

For once I won't say that I have photos of Wright coaches, because the Isle of Wight Railway ones under restoration at the IOWSR clearly are different, although similar. Those can be seen in my album at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/4504-isle-of-wight-steam-railway/

I calculated that, at 4mm to the foot, Highbridge Wharf from the A38 level-crossing to the end of the sidings, beyond the cattle dock, sawmill and timber yard, the anthracite processing plant and the pitch reservoir, would be 10 metres long and the distance from the line to Burnham on Sea to the centre line of the dock would be 3 metres. This may explain why I am still trying to work out something that could represent it in about 2 x 1 metres. (Sorry about the metres - that's how I worked out the measurements. The only good thing about metres is that the spell check doesn't like them.)

Burgess Hill 1.1.2013. I thought that I should take a snap of this oldish looking building - just because it was there and I was there. Why/ Burgess Hill Argos was the only place within 25 miles, which had a particular Play People/ Playmobil set my Grandson wanted for his birthday on 4.1.2013.

I gave up a job as a Principal Development Officer, when I had to accompany the Assistant Social Services Director - Mental Health Services - to meetings with other organisations. She would scurry off to her next meeting, leaving me with a bunch of people who were totally unconvinced by the tosh (euphemism) she had been spouting. 'We aim to do....' 'Our targets are.... ' 'We are working with our partners to achieve....' All with largely unfunded and unsustainable programmes. I gave up trying to back up her ***** and agreed with the skeptics. I moved on before that got fed back to 'the management'..

Here's one I made earlier - 50 years earlier! The axleguards are a Triang bogie cut in half and stuck on far too close to the ends. The footboards were from an Airfix brake van kit. I suspect that the guard's door and the ducket are probably the wrong way round. I see that the Triang clerestorys are to be reintroduced to the Hornby range, which should cut the ridiculously high second-hand price down.

Battleships and submarines did someone say - I have photos for those! Although I expect someone will identify the 'battleships' as cruisers or battle-cruisers. The sub. ended up as an Italian Navy patrol boat.

and a real photo from 1908ish - judging by the ages of my great- uncle and aunts.

Conversion of Ratio 4-wheelers using etched sides seems to be the only way. https://www.dartcastings.co.uk/shire.php#OOGaugeEtchedSidestoConvertRatioCoaches Odd backwaters like Wrington Vale seem to have found a use for 4-wheelers after they disappeared elsewhere.

You will have to do some extensive pug-bashing to create this little sweetie. Once named Queen - presumably until HMQV was not amused.

Did you mean this GNoSR? From a collection of postcard-style prints Dad acquired from a Mr. Beckerlegge. I say acquired because I don't know if he bought them or was given them. (It was in the days before you were 'gifted' things.)

I am sorry to lower the tone, but I can remember working out that my pocket money would go further, if I bought biscuits rather than sweets. Woolworth's in Leatherhead used to have biscuits that you could buy loose. I don't remember whether they were in glass-topped tins, but I assume so. The pink wafers were my favorites as you got a lot for 6d. Where the A38 crossed the S&DJR line to Burnham, Mervyn Knight had his greengrocers next to the level crossing. In my school holidays I used to help him by stacking tins of peas, beans, fruit etc. My reward was often a bag of broken biscuits and usually some fruit and veg, for Mum. He must have had glass topped tins as well I guess. His wife Gwen ran the bakers shop, which joined on to his shop at the back, but was separated at the shops' frontage by a tiny watch-menders' shop. (OK that should probably have been a watch-mender's tiny shop!)

That wouldn't have been Sally's mum would it? Oh, no, she had an 'h' in her name.

Barbara Castle, when Secretary of State for Health and Social Security, came to open the day centre, for younger people, with physical disabilities, which I managed. She stayed on for the bun-fight afterwards, but asked me if she could slip into the kitchen area, as she was in a rush to go on to the next meeting. Once there she tipped her tea into the saucer and drank the cooled beverage from there. That is my only brush with the higher echelons of government. In the current mad hatter's tea party they probably drink it from the tea-pot. Sorry I don't have a photo of Bab's, but I can do you one of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party - a mural from the Wells Way Library children's section.

You don't need hob-nailed boots to give a floor a good drubbing. I came across this just now purely by chance - honest.