phil_sutters

Now single tracked and unstaffed more downgraded stations please

One from an earlier Newhaven & District MRC exhibition - there is another next Saturday 27.10.2018 at Seaford Baptist Church. There seem to be less LMSR layouts about ---- unless you know otherwise .....................

Mr. Oram, the signalman at Highbridge East B box used to use a tea-towel to signal local movements in and out of the S&D goods shed. No photo of the SB or Mr. Oram - could do you several of the goods shed.

This is a modern version - in that area - so forget the mobiles and the bottled water - but I bet that bit of fake grass drapery was there in your time!

Them rhines do eat engines! Poor old 76 did vall in when er ad an argument wi a peat train. There is a steep bit in the middle of the Levels. Please do not start a discussion about the type of Nissen hut on the right. That was done at length in another thread. It's way out of period anyway.

Meanwhile about eight miles west, it's a lot easier going down according to my grand-daughter. That's her on the right, about to launch... It looks like that lot has been carved out of Celotex. I once saw a couple of cyclists who had ridden onto the path that runs along the bottom of the cliff, realizing that, having got on to the path on the level at Rottingdean, they were going to have to carry their bikes up the steps.These have been built into the carved out chalk cliffs at the eastern end of the path, where it finishes before Newhaven Heights.

Further to the above whinge, about organisations that should know better than to encourage people to stand on the edge of eroding chalk cliffs, shortly after posting that, I passed the window of a local undertakers, who seem to have a droll sense of humour. After all the local warnings about the potential fatal consequences of this activity, they displayed this reproduction of an old Southern Railway poster. Could it be they want to offer their services to the bereaved?

Did anyone click on the 'View film' button on the Eric Parry, Architects' webpage that was linked earlier? Although there was a bit of architect/critic spin talk, there was a good section with the master mason talking about the 'Needle' http://www.ericparryarchitects.co.uk/projects/masterplanning/southwark-gateway-london.html I appreciate that it is post-this era but if one is interested in the area it is worth a look.

Talking of wing-plates some of you may have missed a French visitor to the Festival of Britain. A friend of ours asked me to find out about a couple of photos showing a relative of hers firing on an old 2-2-2 (I suppose there aren't many 2-2-2s that aren't old). As usual RMweb members came up with the info - that it was Ouest No. 3 which had been brought over to represent the Crewe type, as there was nothing of the type in working order over here. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/122580-can-anyone-identify-this-2-2-2-loco-please/ There is some delightful footage which a RMweb member unearthed on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=424&v=cUUl9wA9bLg There are interesting details that can be glimpsed in the background, showing rail and road vehicles in the Bricklayers Arms depot.

To swing round to the north, viewed from London Bridge and to add a bit of detail to the neighbouring building, in case anyone spotted the decoration and wondered what it was ---

Just to add to this rush of photographic detail of this building, a few of the north-west corner, which will not be seen in the model.

Hi Grahame. I wonder if your roof top boxes are a little high, although from the angle these two photos were taken in 2011 it is difficult to compare with your views looking down. Of course things may have altered in the period between your era and 2011. However you continue to recreate an area I know well, so it is fascinating to watch your progress. Thank you for sharing it. Best wishes, Phil

My Dad's photo of Penmaenpool should be appearing in the Channel 'Walking Britain's Lost Railways' series on Friday 26.10.2018 at 9pm. Ch5 asked to use it, but they don't always use everything they source. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/75356-cl2-2-6-0-46521-penmaen-pool-27-8-1964/

Have I uploaded this one here before? Never mind, the opportunity to show some Belgian bums doesn't crop up too often,

Where do you think East-West Rail and the West to East Tramocar will meet? Worthing Tramocar at Amberley Museum 29 8 2013

This sign always puzzled me. I calculated that, as the named places were churches or similar buildings, it was because someone was trying to be religiously 'inclusive'. On the subject of inclusivity, I recently took Channel 4 to task over their big metal figure (called by them their 'ident') walking ashore and landing a large group of people onto a white cliff top, where they then turn and, standing on the edge, wave out to sea. The past year has seen all the local authorities in our area of the Sussex coast back up the RNLI and Coastguard campaign to warn of the serious danger of rock falls from the chalk cliffs, begging people not to go near the edge. There has been at least one death from selfie-taking, quite apart from the huge toll of suicides, and there have been numerous rock falls at all times of the year, not just in rough weather. Channel 4 response was that their ident was delivering a very inclusive group of people to the location. My comment was that the length of time the ident was on the screen, in slots between programmes and adverts., would be too short for viewers to notice who was in the group, but that the image of them standing on the cliff waving would be far more likely to stick in the memory. Mind you the BBC was as bad with their use of the white cliffs for their 2012 Olympics publicity, where they had Olympic and then Paralympic heroes standing on the cliff top waving.

Looking for something else - as per usual - I came across this thread. These two are from 20 years later, but show that there was still some steam about.

I have featured this little Unimog shunter before, but not from this angle I think, rolling through Newhaven Harbour station with wagon loads of waste ballast from trackworks between there and Newhaven Town station. 23.3.2013 More yellow locos please

Sorry I haven't been paying attention - too many non-railway things going on. If you want a really classy gun-boat try this one preserved at Chatham. Technically I think she is a screw sloop - as opposed to a sail or paddle sloop I guess - but she was used in much the same way around the empire. She was commissioned in 1878 and saw service into the early 1900s. She even has a railway connection, according Wiki - 'In the autumn of 1900, Gannet was leased to the South Eastern & Chatham Railway Company as an accommodation hulk at Port Victoria railway station on the Isle of Grain.'

Thanks - that fills a gap in my information.

I have spotted a couple more shots which may or may not help. They were in my Southwark Needle file among my Public Art in Southwark folder. I have several photos of the NW corner of the building where the glazing is completely different, but I guess that will be out of sight.

I only have the western end of the block - here it is for those that haven't seen it.

If you would like a photo rather than a link - albeit at Exeter not London Bridge!

I am not sure how much is sand and how much is mud, in this quayside off the Bristol Channel. It still hasn't got mooring lines and people - before someone comments! The ships are S&DJR coasters plying between South Wales and Highbridge, with mainly coal and steel products. On the left is Julia and the right is Radstock and the date is the 1930s. Another quayside, sea, river or canal, please