phil_sutters

Dad's photos are a bit grainy, but I think both these shots show the centre bottom lamp bracket on 30102. You will need to click to enlarge the images to see the bracket at all. In the top one I think that there was a hair on the negative, which makes it look as though there is a loop of wire or string around the bracket. Whereas there was none on 30093, in this shot where at least the front is in reasonable focus.

Methinks your predictive text is getting out of control! Maybe the medication is still affecting things? *** I agree with that.

I know that you have had my view of this area taken from No.1 London Bridge, but I have blown up a section of the original full resolution image. It is still fairly fuzzy, but may be of some help. On the chimney pot issue, you are missing six pots from the long runs, as you can see in the more recent frontal view. That is for information, not by way of criticism, as I have great admiration for your modelling skills. I am fairly sure that you have had that photo as well at some point, but 'viewers' may like to see what a challenge you have set yourself. Best wishes for your recovery. Phil

The sad thing is that since I took this shot there are more manic monstrosities jostling for attention on the City skyline

You didn't mention the sea, but..... more H2O

This is as big as locos in Dad's photos get Any more big boys - there must be some from other countries?

Three shades of blue - if you include the platform metalwork. Keeo going blue

Doubly blue more blue please

Decidedly damp looking sleepers and a misty background More please

Even earlier - 1952 There are more from this holiday visit at http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/4133-scotland-in-the-1950s/ You don't have to go even earlier - but let's keep in Scotland.

My that was a long time between trains! I expect the rail-replacement buses weren't shiny enough to record.

The S&DJR's Bristol Channel ferry service used paddle steamers. It was never a huge success despite its high aspirations. Sherbro was the final ship in the passenger fleet and only lasted four years - the Severn Tunnel being the final nail in the coffin.

I never saw them on the street - too busy working a few streets away - but New Cross suffered from zombies in day light - scenes from Shaun of the Dead were filmed in a disused pub there

Some times they are too shiny - for good photography - when you are on the wrong platform when something rolls in unexpectedly! A better shot of a shiny loco or train perhaps this time.

Here's a lowly 313 spruced up - originally 313001, the UK’s first-ever second-generation electric multiple unit, it worked out of Moorgate. It now runs on Southern's Coastway services as 313201. more shiny please

A fair amount of shiny brass here more shiny please

I thought Volk's Electric Railway was opened using a 50 volt supply in 1883. That was increased to 160 volt a year or so later. Eighty years later Dad took a photo!

" I suspect not. My usual solution to anything to big for CA - so far, live-stock market, gas works, maltings, egg depot, and Great Yarmouth Drill Hall - is to place it at Achingham, however, a bandstand might be pushing my luck. There would certainly be such a bandstand at the elegant seaside resort of Birchoverham Next The Sea, which, in order to justify the volume of through traffic to the West Norfolk, is becoming in my imagination something more of the grandeur of Victorian Cromer, than Wells." Can't do you Cromer, but Yarmouth & Gorleston had contrasting styles

Unusual for that lot to retain a more elegant turn of phrase - our engine shed is a bit down-market and m.p.d. is a bit long-winded in full.

From a rapidly falling apart Gazetteer, dated by my Father, from his knowledge of railway development, to c1884. It is a strange collection of maps. The English Counties are all there, Wales appears to have been pinched, probably by one of my Welsh relatives. Scotland and Ireland are both to a smaller scale. Some important cities like York and Portsmouth don't appear, but the resorts of Hastings, Tunbridge Wells and Cheltenham do. You might say Portsmouth had strategic importance and was omitted on security grounds, but Chatham and Plymouth both appear. Odd! (Don't forget that you can get a larger version by clicking on the map)

I can find nothing specifically about signalling in any of my S&D books. The nearest I can find are from loco crew accounts in Peter Smith's 'Mendips Engineman' and 'Footplate over the Mendips'.but they don't seem to refer to specific regulations.

Keep it shiny!

I came across one similarly unfazed by people passing by on the driveway that leads to the Eastbourne Miniature Railway. It seemed to be on quite good terms with a swan There was also a far from cooperative Green Woodpecker that kept on crossing the driveway, but never settled on a tree that was near enough to photograph.

This depiction of an'unmarked patrol' has struck me as a bit quaint for sometime, but I have only just got round to braving the traffic on the A259, coast road, to get a snap of it.