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WOW.... Now, how about somebody kindly reprinting "LSWR Coaches in the 20th Century" at a sensible price.... Bill

When I was a "wagon spotter" in the 1970s, I never saw a Trout on the Southern or Western Regions, but a handful on the Eastern Region. I would rate them as "distinctly rare"... Bill

This is barely on tpoic, but anyway... Can somebody please explain the sequence of these two pictures.... http://www.railphotoprints.co.uk/index/detail/6011/6326-Exeter-150571-RPCDM100.jpg.html http://www.railphotoprints.co.uk/index/detail/6010/6326-Exeter-150571-RPCDM099.jpg.html I guess that they're in order. 6326 comes off Exeter shed onto the up main, but it's blocked by the Warship (831?), which seems to have overrun the home signals. How does 6326 then make its way back onto the platform road?? (I'm sure I'm missing simething...) Meanwhile, 809 was presumably hidden in the headshunt in the first view and is moving forward in the second view... Thanks, Bill

Would these Gresleys have ever been used on seaside excursions...? ...to Bournemouth Bill

A ready-to-run model of a gunpowder van would be nice... Did Red Panda once release a kit? Bill

Thanks Porcy, excellent information. Would anybody care to speculate on when the last regional allocation (in particular Southern) carried by the earlier batches was painted out (see Gent, p. 24)?

Perhaps somebody would be kind enough to summarise (agian...) the diagrams of the Lima, Hornby and Parkside models, their number series and key differences between them? Many thanks, Bill

Interesting... What sort of duties did the 20s work? Bill

Nice... B) Presumably it wasn't for fish landed at Southampton, of which I guess there was very little. Just out of interest, what was the original intended use for Flat EDs and friends? Some Flats were apparently built as late as 1959. Bill

Here's one (or two?) of the Bird's Eye containers in a mixed freight: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2468523 Unfortunately it's impossible (to me) to make out the type of Conflat. Bill

A bit earlier, around 1975, I saw about 20(!) TRESTROLs in Barnstaple yard (steel for Appledore shipyard), which shows that some country branchlines could see some interesting special traffic wagons. Bill

Borchester, for its urban "grittiness" and (for its time) contemporary setting. High Dyke. No station(!) but fantastic trains in the landscape and freight interest. Romsey, the first reasonably extensive layout I read about to be based on the Southern. Bill

Thanks Paul for the excellent information. Please could you explain what "flow arrows" are... Is Marchwood the only station in the country where all the signals are two-doll brackets Bill

Another nice view here: http://www.southernrailway.net/search/display_pic.php?search_fd0=33256 Bill

Fascinating stuff.... Are there any account of railway operations involving horse boxes for racehorses? Bill

Fantastic John... Were these individuals trainers or rich amateurs? Did the branding survive into BR days? Biil

All of them please Bill

More reliable that the real thing it seems... Bill

A BR-buit VANWIDE from the early 1960s. Bill

Thanks so much Peter for all the work in entering this mass of information. Who'd have thought that over 40 years' later you would be using technology undreamed of at the time to share these invaluable records. Best regards, Bill

Awesome photo Bill

They could also be used for beer traffic, sometimes branded ALE... Bill

Here is one example with the diesel "outside," with both locomotives apparently operational. http://www.steamweb.net/gallerybr/large-27.html Bill

9135 was something of a celebrity(?) for me. It was a frequent visitor to the Bournemouth area in the early 1970s on excursions and I actually rode in it :-) on a Sunday Merrymaker excursion that did the Central Wales line in about 1972 (route: Reading, Birmingham New Street, Shrewsbury, Swansea, Severn Tunnel and Reading...). There must have been an overtime(?) day in South Wales, wich was absolutely heaving with freight-train activity. Thirty-seven years ago, sigh... Bill