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34070 'Manston' really looks the part as it pulls into Harmans Cross station with the 1400hrs Swanage to Norden service - on a very wet 19 August 2015.

Next - A diesel hydraulic loco on a UK preserved line.

Will this one do? The fireman is setting the tablet catcher while heading out to Templecombe from Bath. This is from Dad's archive, by his friend Michael Brown.

 

MR 4F 0-6-0 44146 Bath 2 10 1954.jpg

 

How about TPO equipment on a train or lineside?

That's as good an inspiration as I've seen to purchase a rake of N-gauge Maunsells in blood and custard and a 4F  

Bought a pack of coal loads to see how good they were; I'm impressed; in the pack of 4 each one seems different and they fit in the 16t minerals just right. They need some packing underneath to bring them to the top of the wagon if you want. You could add real coal but they're quite realistic as they are. Certainly beats planning to make your own and never getting round to it. Not really expensive at about £ 1.27 each. They're quite weighty too.  Presumably the ballast loads are the same mouldings but grey in colour; just right for the iron-ore tipplers with a coat of Woodland Scenics iron-ore ballast maybe. 

Good to hear. I've got a couple of packs of the coal loads on order.

Does that mean I get a go

In October 2016 a pair of former Victorian Railway C class EMDs run alongside the Goulburn River near Sandy Hollow, New South Wales, with a Southern Shorthaul Railroad loaded grain train.

Next - a train running along the seafront with the sea in the back/foreground

55022 and 55004 at York on 25 May 1981

47417 at Kings Cross in November 1974 - renumbered from 1516 in April that year.

Well more modern than the last pic, so should count........September 1972

Happy to keep it going.......so more a modern pic (than this one) of Newcastle 

A nice pair of Bristols ............ Herne Bay, 9 August 2015

LKT991 was a Eastern Coachworks bodies Bristol L6A delivered in March 1950 - it only lasted 11 years in service with M & D. Bristol K6A HK867 lasted considerably longer having been delivered in October 1945 and withdrawn in 1967. However, its original Duple bodywork was replaced by Weymann along the way in 1953.

A couple of shots of Newcastle, New South Wales in 2012 - subsequently closed at the end of 2015 for reasons too complicated to go into.

Next a station with the word 'town' in it

I think it must be wildcard time so here is something close, but no cigar......Chiltern Railways three-car 168/1 class diesel multiple unit 168109 waits to depart London Marylebone with the 1937hrs service to Birmingham Snow Hill on 19 April 2012.

Next.......a diesel hauled freight on Southern Region metals prior to privatisation

Hot off the scanner, a Connex South Central 4-CIG at Clapham Junction in June 2004.

So talking about the SMA's here's a similar Alexander body, but this time it's on a Leyland Panther chassis (built 1969). Newcastle - September 1972,

While across the road......

1966 built AEC Regent V with MCCW bodywork - GAT817D. In service with Tynemouth - formerly with East Yorkshire Buses.

Been turning my brain inside out to figure where that was taken.  I'm almost certain it's on Lister Gate/Carrington St which is now underneath part of the Broad marsh centre, which, having checked, opened in 1975. When that was being built I spent many hours above the ceilings in that very area dragging in cables for PA, fire alarm and intercom systems. All in mid winter before any doors or windows were fitted!

The car park on the left is scheduled for demolition soon, the Victorian(?) building on the right survives although in varying states of occupancy, the ground floor most recently a Chinese supermarket but has been empty for a good few years now.

I can't remember well that far back other than it would be pretty close to the railway station.

It was a day trip to Toton from London and I knew this was around so allocated a few minutes to get a grab shot.

Or was it just luck?

One abiding memory which I have of the buses/coaches in South London was of the SMA (AEC Swift) class which failed to worked the 725 South Orbital route from Windsor via Kingston Sutton, Croydon, Bromley, and Sidcup to Dartford and some to Gravesend.  The appearance of the Alexander bodies was like a breath of home to an exiled Scot, but OH so unreliable - no guts at all, and I recall one day when I was in Addiscombe on the day of a Jubilee parade, when one of these wonders was following behind, and had a massive hydraulic leak which caused it to regale the folks enjoying the parade with a lovely showering of thick grey smoke!

If not seen already, post #127 in this thread I have posted a pic of an SMA. I lived just off Cheam Road, Sutton for a few years and they were a regular sight.

This is taken from a Kodachrome 64 colour slide scan and then I have played around a bit with it in Photoshop a bit to lighten the shadows and try and improve the dramatic effect.

A pair Of China Rail QJ 2-10-2s on a freight near Harbin in March 1988 - definitely best viewed full screen.

A 3-car DMU featuring 3 different liveries forms part of a 7-car consist on a Scarborough to Leeds services near York in May 1981.

I suppose I should play nice  - four different liveries of passenger coach (or MU cars) in the same train.

 

Staying with multiples - next please a multi-section or articulated bodied diesel or electric.

I'd almost forgotten I had this...........The EW class were built in the UK by English Electric in 1952 for the New Zealand Government Railways. The seven member class was confined to the 1500v DC network around Wellington for most of its regular working life, with the last example withdrawn in 1988. 

Next a train under an arched roof

And a couple from Bombay - October 1978