Wickham Green too

I guess you've been through the NLS site for maps ? .......... somewhere I've got a book on the Railways of Buchan which the grey cells tell me might be of use !

It's labelled MPV depot on the map - and that's all I ever remember seeing in there ....... you might well find Colas in West Yard though.

Actually not far from home at that time as it lived - with the M7 and a few other items - in the old Pullman Works at Preston Park ................. those two are a long way from the Southern now !

I wonder how far up towards Elephant or Blackfriars you'd have to go to use that ? ...... possibly different whether you were going clockwise or widdershins !

Always thought they used sticky-backed plastic for numbers - borrowed from Blue Peter of course.

Actually, looks like someone's added a metre to the top of it while he wasn't looking - you can see the join !

Earlier Southern electric units were normally hauled unbraked - though the Southern were never short of ex Brighton & SECR locos with Westinghouse capability.

Wrong type of wheels for a class 12 ! ( & wrong size )

The Southern certainly built new six-wheeled chassis for theirs ( though there probably wasn't much left that was actually 'theirs' as the tanks themselves belonged to the dairies ) ......... the redundant four-wheel chassis ended up under 20T coal wagons - presumably heavily rebuilt - though photos are unknown.

Those dimensions can't be very far off DS74 : https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/135992-has-anyone-built-a-model-of-ds74-the-sr-durnsford-road-shunter/&/topic/135992-has-anyone-built-a-model-of-ds74-the-sr-durnsford-road-shunter/?view=getnewpost

Looks like one of those streamlined trailers - the guy was probably hoping the bridge would just slide over the top.

Ah ...... October '87 : No there won't be a hurricane !

Thanks for those more sub/urban ones ..... yes, I think the Metropolitan junction - Cannon Street spur is still connected but I've no idea how it's accessed since the Thameslink reorganisation.

I don't think anyone's mentioned two triangles still extant on the South Eastern - though neither is likely to be used for tuning anything other than railtours : Sittingbourne and Minster - two in the Dover area are long gone unfortunately.

The nearest roof end's wrong for a Thompson - that one, at least, is a Gresley ( Maybe one of the steel-sheeted ones.).

I hope they were more than two metre apart !

John Harvey's 'After Nationalisation' volume of 'Southern Style' states "Three War Department locomotives ( No.79203, 79262 and 79281 ) were erroneously lettered BRITISH RAILWAYS and numbered with the "s" prefix at Brighton, but since BR did not own these locomotives these were errors. s79203 and s79262 were quickly corrected but s79281 lasted until June 1949." ........ there's no clue how many other WDs - including 77296 - were numbered in Sunshine style but "By December 1947 the SR had 50 at work ..." ( Rowledge Vol.3 ) so there could have been quite a few.

Would be interesting to compare one with an LNER Y4 : virtually the same length ( given the different buffers ) but looking beefier with a higher-pitched boiler and outside Walschaerts while balanced on a mere 6' wheelbase ! ................................. but if we're wish-listing Great Eastern tankies - which we weren't - the Buckjumper family is still a VERY conspicuous gap in the r.t.r. family.

I'm not sure how you work out those lengths ( ? ) as cutting a 6' compartment out of a 60' brake coach would result in a 54' vehicle exactly right for the Isle of Widget transfers. ( Without 6' compartments, the Composite would be problematic.) BUT, as has been said before, the 54' stock had 'Ashford Gothic' fenestration with round-cornered tops to the windows and square bottoms - whereas the 60' had four rounded corners ....... AND the arrangement of compartments in each vehicle was different anyway !

Not the best picture - and it's a 312 ( 784 ) - but it may be of use !!?!

As an outside cylindered machine with cylinders and blastpipe replaced in BR days, the 'N' probably doesn't sound much like a 'D' ............ other than going 'chuff' at four beats to the bar !

....... about 250 miles !

..... that's the 'HMRS Livery Register ; no.3 ; LSWR and Southern' ( plus 1990 Addendum which adds nothing to this discussion. ) ( sorry I missed 2655 there, too, Graham ). The HMRS ( Historical Model Railway Society ) is in the process of updating this under the title 'Southern Style' with vastly increased detail : the LSWR and Brighton volumes are already available and the Southern Volume is at the printers - though I'm not sure how locked-down they are now !

The 1970 Southern Livery Register lists 2636 / 47 & 515S ( + 680S ) 'in existence in Maunsell livery' in 1948 - also W10 & W12 which were already withdrawn. ( 2647 retained this livery 'til withdrawn in 1951.) All other members of the class would have been running in Sunshine black at Nationalisation - unless John Harvey has found exceptions for the new Register.

What's more, their pre-recorded on-board announcements have been dumbed-down to an Anglicised 'This train is ....' rather than 'This treean is ....' in a rich local accent !