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I have a Southeast Finecast model of the E1, completed in early BR livery as IoW W4 'Wroxall'. Wonderful engine, and one of my favourites. Never thought there would be a RTR version of it though! I will certainly be pre-ordering the IEG version of the Rapido model.

That was 46 'Newington', now W8 Freshwater on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. http://www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/Freshwater.aspx

Can the missing condenser pipes be added to the model of 'Southern' 2644. This picture taken at Havant in August 1937 shows the locomotive as having them. https://www.flickr.com/photos/swift-valley/4168843093/

Dapol have forgotten to add the condenser pipes on the model of 'Southern' 2644 going by this picture of the same locomotive at Havant in 1937. https://www.flickr.com/photos/swift-valley/4168843093/

32611 on Hayling Island. http://www.davidheyscollection.com/00-0-a-rs-greenwood-C49jpg.jpg

What I would really like are terriers with the extended Isle of Wight bunker.

Woolston Signal Box, shown in the picture, is Grade II listed and a nice example of the once common LSWR Type-4 signal box design. It is situated on the platform of Woolston station. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1413387 The frame is preserved as part of the reconstruction of Midford Signal Box by the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust, at Washford Station on the West Somerset Railway. http://www.west-somerset-railway.co.uk/railway/stations/washford http://forum.signalbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=3120

I found some great pictures of Swanwick Signal Box (the prototype for kit SR55c) 2min and 30s into this video :

Can you tell me where the prototype of my LCUT "SR 55c LSWR/SR OO gauge platform mounted small signal box" is? Is it the former signal box at Swanwick (LSWR) on the Southampton to Fareham line? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Swanwick-Railway-Station-Photo-Fareham-Bursledon-Netley-Line-3/253267588069?hash=item3af7ecb3e5:g:ChIAAOSwvR5aEdiE

The former signal box at Swanwick (LSWR) on the Southampton to Fareham line looks identical to the LCUT kit. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Swanwick-Railway-Station-Photo-Fareham-Bursledon-Netley-Line-3/253267588069?hash=item3af7ecb3e5:g:ChIAAOSwvR5aEdiE

LCUT make a platform mounted LSWR signal box in 4mm scale. http://lcut.co.uk/index.php?product=SR%2055c&title=SR%2055c Here is a ground mounted version to a similar design in Southampton : https://signalbox.org/gallery/s/chapelcrossing.php

That is interesting. Are there any details online? I have not found anything, so maybe I have to wait until my copy of the magazine arrives! Could you list the other 10 locos?

Thank you for making so many of the structures on my layout! Any chance of a 4mm model of a large LSWR type-4 signal box with the brick central panel such as at St Denys, similar to the boxes that survive at Woolston or Haslemere? https://signalbox.org/gallery/s/stdenys.php http://tillyweb.biz/gallery/hh/haslemere3.jpg http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/598919

A Google search also finds an 1865 proposal by the LSWR to build a "Havant, Hambledon and Droxford Railway" which would include extending the Bishops Waltham branch to Petersfield. Pity I cannot find maps online to go with these Parliamentary reports. https://books.google.com/books?id=aLQDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA110&dq=havant+hambledon+droxford+railway&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwgoT5_ZHZAhUHrVkKHdZWCWIQ6AEIUjAI#v=onepage&q=havant%20hambledon%20droxford%20railway&f=false

There are a few details of the GWR's 1895 proposed "Portsmouth, Basingstoke and Godalming Railway" here : https://books.google.com/books?id=uusoL4jT2C0C&pg=PA671&dq=portsmouth+basingstoke+godalming+railway&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju1KSWs5HZAhUiwFkKHcB7DGcQ6AEIODAD#v=onepage&q&f=false

"I quite like the Horndean idea at the moment, as it provides reasonable LSWR opportunities. Any other thoughts?" In the early 1880s the LSWR sought to build the "Windsor, Aldershot & Portsmouth Railway" railway, partially along the route of what would become the Meon Valley line but veering east at the southern end. The proposed line would run from Farnham, westward to East Tisted, then down the Meon Valley to West Meon, where it would turn east over the South Downs through Hambledon before reaching the lines into Portsmouth at Cosham (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meon_Valley_Railway). A bit of historical revisionism and this line could pass through Horndean. I understand that the proposed GWR line from Basingstoke to Portsmouth that the Meon Valley line was built as a blocking line for would also have gone through this area before joining the LBSCR line to Portsmouth at Bedhampton.

SR No. 735 (Ex LBSCR No. 46 Newington) makes for a nice variation. The engine was sold to the LSWR in March 1903 and is seen in the link below in SR days with (I believe) a Drummond pattern boiler with safety valves on the dome and stove pipe chimney. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q0tHVOktkfo/WE3Xu8lmFiI/AAAAAAAAJeo/gsZxfSGZ-VYfLUDHlxhBOI7Ud50C8f0AgCK4B/s1600/Scan-3-1540.jpg Picture from the http://gosportrailwaysociety.org.uk/

O2 #214 in LSWR green looks very smart. https://mikemorant.smugmug.com/keyword/486;lswr/i-8p7CKrk/A

Pity there are not a few new versions of the O2, an IoW loco in SR livery or a loco in LSWR Sage Green livery for example. Are Kernow stuck with a stock of slowly moving locos whilst we are ready to spend money on more locos that cannot be produced until that stock has cleared?

Portsmouth Harbour would make an interesting Minories-based layout as the Dockyard Railway at the northern side of the station allows for intensive freight workings into Portsmouth Dockyard. Extra freight movements created by the siding at the southern side of the station for tankers supplying fuel to the Isle of Wight ferries.

A retooled Terrier with the extended bunker for service on the Isle of Wight would be very welcome.

I saw these on Ebay yesterday, they look rather impressive. Started me thinking as to how Cyril Freezer's classic 'Minories' track plan could be developed with these complex points. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peco-Hornby-double-scissor-crossover-point-small-medium-or-large/152779585163?var=452481196392&_trkparms=aid%3D444000%26algo%3DSOI.DEFAULT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D49138%26meid%3D4081e4e4e5f549ac800eaa286ce36f4a%26pid%3D100752%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D3%26sd%3D152779585163&_trksid=p2047675.c100752.m1982

The Jersey Lilies were Edwardian locomotives built between 1903 and 1906. The Directors were a newer design, built after the First World War between 1919 and 1924.

There is sufficient demand for Bachmann to release the D11/1 in the intricate regrouping GCR livery as Butler Henderson, Mons and now Zeebrugge, so why no new Wainwright 'C' in the full-fat Wainwright SECR livery? Especially with the current interest in birdcage coaches, Hornby's Wainwright 'H', Hatton's Wainwright 'P' and all things SECR.

The Jersey Lily, often regarded as Robinson's finest looking locomotive, is deserving of at least a place on on the Rmweb wishlist survey. Hopefully there will be an RTR version some time in the future.