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I may have used this one before but it fits more rail-borne oddities please

On (very short - perhaps 15ft) rails - I would have loved to have lived here when the harbour had extensive railways on both sides of the river - with Terriers! More interesting bits of rails with wheeled stuff on them please

No more off the rails contributions - have a wild card that could take us somewhere more productive!

From my very primitive filing system, it appears that I have previously uploaded this to RMweb, but I can't remember using it in this thread - if I have I apologize! Let's keep off the rails - if we can.

There's a rather dour bust of King Haakon VII outside the Norwegian Kirke in Rotherhithe, London, As usual it has nothing to do with anything but here he is - his upper lip is mustachioed but it looks a bit strange in this sculpture.

More gadding about in August - sorry he didn't make it to Ireland. The Scottish photo was taken at Arbroath. Between 29th July and 26th August 1952 we were on holiday in Monifieth. Including the journeys fom Ripon and back Dad filled 54 pages of his spotting logbook. With upto 24 lines / entries per page that is approaching 1300 recorded loco sightings. Obviously some are seen more than once during the holiday and he did visit several sheds, but there are whole pages of Monifieth, Dundee, Perth and Edinburgh.

Dad obviously travelled far and wide in August!

.........and an earlier one

Back in the 50s -

No vehicles on these carflats!

Before the M5 came we used to quite like the A38 in the summer holidays in Highbridge. It meant you could cross the road at virtually any point, as the traffic went through at a snail's pace or stopped dead for lengthy periods.

Look what helped to build it! Highbridge S&DJR station being abused.

This time a model one - and a mystery! I made this model back around 1969 -70. When I found it among my S&DJR stock, having dug it out from the darkest corner of the garage, a few months back, I tried to find a picture of the prototype or a model I could have copied from, but couldn't. If anyone can recognize the prototype from this fairly crude model, built on an Airfix van chassis, I would be interested to see what it really looks like. Have you another model railway mystery item you could do with identifying?

Not much of the carriage, as they get pretty packed - perhaps not quite as badly as Southern in the rush-hour though. More interiors please

The inside view was taken before we realized that there was supplement payable for riding in it. More interior shots please.

I don't think that I have used this one before in this thread. More from the dark side - please

Sometimes local historians cover railways. Paul O'Callaghan's two volumes on East Sussex Coastal Railways covers the main Ashford to Brighton line and volume 2 covers 'Branch lines and other railways. I don't have volume 1, which would cover Eastbourne, but volume 2 has a range of photos, although he seems disinclined to show mainline electrics.He does include Eastbourne trams which ran until 1967 and the Crumbles branch which lasted, in part at least, into the 1960s. As you are modelling in the 60s-70s era Marie Panter's Lost Railways of East Sussex will be too early for you and of course Eastbourne hasn't been 'lost'. While on the subject of Southern books, one of my sisters recently bought me a booklet called 'Want to run a railway?' Produced by BR's Southern Region in October 1962 it challenges the 'I could run this lot a sight better than they do" brigade to 'run Southern better than we do.' It is an entertaining and informative read, with some wry humour and an attractive period design by Royston Cooper. As it is doubtless under copyright I can't reproduce any here, but there are some good photos of areas not usually recorded - e.g. - timetablers - MP foreman & guard regulator & ticket inspectors. Current railway company efforts to explain the pressures and constraints don't seem to come across with the same degree of style and imagination.

Treat yourself to a wild card!

Another taking on water More thirsty locos - please

Looking at this one before uploading, I realised that the front number plate seems huge on such a tiny smokebox door.

Who needs reminding? The driver knows which type of train he is using and now presumably whether it should be in diesel or electric mode and should also know his route. It is only if the signaller has set the wrong route that the driver needs to react to this notice. I assume in this technically advanced age signallers have information on the power details of the trains they control.