Adam88

Regarding Modern Image and the like, the old Light Railway Transport League used to feature a great deal of harrumphing if anyone should dare to mention trolleybuses - transport of the Devil to some.

My copy of "North London Railway: A Pictorial Record" published by the HMSO for the NRM in 1979 has a number of similar photographs but not that particular one. One which shows 4-4-0T No 40 appears to be taken at the same oh-so-clean shed gives South Acton as the location. That picture has nine bewhiskered railwaymen but possibly not the same ones. No date is given.

That won't work. Hanging actually keeps folk off their toes.

Very interesting and certainly new to me. I don't recall seeing this man first time round or even knowing of him. I also liked his contemporary comments which he finished on.

I can tell that Joseph Paxton didn't give't any sort of inspiration here.

You beat me to it. I too was going to comment on the cleaning pattern, I've sometimes seen it referred to as tallowing although I cannot imagine tallow was ever used for this purpose. Many years ago someone published a piece in 'Backtrack' by a man who had been tasked with preparing and cleaning an LT&SR 4-4-2t for an exhibition, almost a lost art. I must try and look it out. In many years I have never seen such a finish represented on a small scale model locomotive - I think it would be very difficult to do and would certainly not find favour with the unholy "lets make our models as filthy as possible" brigade.

Do these sorts of vessels ever appear in Lloyd's List or are they too humble? I once spent an afternoon in a reference library thumbing through old copies of LL for something I was interested in at the time.

By the time Khrushchev and Bulganin visited Oxford in the 50s and Stalin had been airbrushed the undergraduates sang out "Poor old Joe" to a beaming Nikita.

Very pleased to read this and I hope things continue to improve for you. We are fortunate that while we can admire the elegant railway products of our forefathers we don't have to endure their dentistry.

Yes. IIRC there were primary, secondary and tertiary with slightly different symbology for each. The OS resurveyed the country in the mid-20C partly because the locations of quite a few of the originals had been lost. This seems an unusual place for a trig point but perhaps the location pre-dates the railway.

In a parallel universe Ian Nairn would be living with us in Castle Aching.

I see that there are more recent books on Great Northern atlantics but do not have these myself. The worlds locomotives: A digest of the latest locomotive practice in the railway countries of the world by Charles Sidney Lake (Author) Percival Marshall (1905), 380 pages This is a widely available, popular Edwardian era book with a chapter on atlantics which includes some GA drawings, including of the backhead. No tender drawings though. You could try asking or even joining the Great Northern Society, it's the sort of thing the line societies are very good at.

Not a brilliant picture, it came from . I'm sure other RMWeb watchers will be able to do better. Steam Index is often worth checking out.

That's a fine period piece and very appropriate for HM's birthday. It (they?) would look splendid at the head of a royal train proceding sedately to Windsor or Ballater. I had to go upstairs to see what Mike Sharman had to say on the subject: "With the coal carried over the driving wheels and presumably only one fireman carried he was cursed with the problem of not knowing if he was coming or going!"

Was that the one with a horse-drawn hearse upstairs?

Very flat, Norfolk

Iain, a similar set, but with a brake compartment, can be seen on this Railway Roundabout film from 1961-62: https://youtu.be/dHzB-I6A5P0?t=1920 at 32:00 minutes onwards.

Wasn't that the basis of the post-war Libyan economy?

No mention of detonators in the relevant poetry.

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/steam-engine-no-1450-50142/view_as/grid/search/keyword:ivatt/page/1 Leads to this rather pleasant contemporary image.

I missed out on the library discussion. I've recently started to catalogue my own collection and have started planning yet more bookshelves. I use an on-line cataloguing system called LibraryThing which suits my purposes very well for a number of reasons. It tells me that my books are getting rather too many in number. That in turn reminded me of my visit to Petersen House opposite Ford's Theater in Washington where the stack of books on Honest Abe is also rather tall.

Shouldn't there be a little more in the frame department Tony? It's been bothering me. This one looks as though the weight of the bunker is supported by little more than air.

That's not such a good way to get your ears lowered. I bet what was left of them weren't half ringing.

Some still are.