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Better late than never, I hope, here are a couple of images of the Wheatley sign. The first is a bitmap image, created from a photo by straightening and removing perspective effects. This is of the area inside the white border seen in the photo. This is only a painted edge, the casting is smooth. The second is a jpg made from a drawing I have created in Turbocad, drawn from scratch from measurements taken from the image above, and checked from the sign. It still needs a bit of tweaking, but so far I'm pleased with it. I will be drawing up other letters as I have pictures of similar signs contailing most of the alphabet. I have yet to do the cross section drawing. The overall size of the sign, ignoring the mounting and locating lugs is 90.25"x23". If you have a suitable cad program I can let you have the files in an appropriate format.. Hth Dave

My few pictures. 6150 in the yard in early 1965. Two signals, understood to be from Wheatley, resited to a private garden. The position of the black/white paint on the distant suggests it has been shortened. Summer 1964? Wylde is making glacial progress, currently waiting for Peco bullhead single slip, then tracklaying can begin... Dave

No problem, I'll get on to it in the next few days. My father bought the sign from the person who did some of the demolition there after closure. I should have some pictures of two of the Wheatley signals, after they had been transplanted to Longsides. I will post them here when I find them. Dave

Nothing much to offer, but I can give you accurate measurements for this if you need them. It has clearly had a blue background at some point, before a final poor quality coat of brown. The other one, now at Didcot was for some time at Longsides, at the top of Ladder Hill, along with much other railwayana. Dave

Looking convincing. I've just uploaded some more photos taken in the Greenwich/Deptford area over the last few years. They show that industrial red brick is OK for south of the river, if you want some variety. https://www.flickr.com/photos/unravelled/albums/72157711770750377 I hope they are of some interest Dave

Hi, I'm fairly local to the area, (Brockley), and have taken quite a few photos over the years along the Greenwich-Gallions stretchof the Thames. Unfortunately they are not well sorted, so I can't easily point you to anything relevant yet. This is the street side of what seems to have been a small works complex, with the other side on the riverbank. http://RIMG0147 by David Harvey, on Flickr One of the distinctive features of a lot of the riverside sites is a panel of stone in an otherwise brick wall, usually adjacent to a gateway. http://RIMG0167 by David Harvey, on Flickr If you would like some more pictures like these, I can post them here. Thanks Dave

A few pictures from 1965-67, which might hrlp for variety. I haven't bothered with mainly van trains which have been mentioned before, nor with the mineral trains. First from 1965, milk as tail traffic on a stopping service, Garsdale PW(?) train at Dent, 1966 Opens and vehicle flats, Dent 1966 Presflos, 1966 Ais Gill 1966 Not all Black 5s and 8Fs, 1967 I hope these are of some help. Dave

Wow! The thread I started turns into a conspiracy theory. I hope this helps to debunk it, though I fear it now won't be taken seriously... Dave

Over the last couple of days I have noticed that the "Load nore activity" button is acting inconsistently. Up until a few days ago, clicking on that button would cause it to disappear, and be replaced by the start of a new batch of topics, with the topics above remaining in place. The inconsistent activity I've recently noticed is that on clicking, the button remains in place, with a new batch of topics inserted above it, requiring me to scroll back to see the added content. Not really a big problem, but I think it's worth noting. Thanks Dave

There was an interesting programme at least 10 years ago, (possibly Horizon), which discussed the monitoring of solar energy reaching the Earth's surface. On the two no-fly days post 9-11, there was a measurable increase in temperature, which declined again when flying restarted. Suggesting that air travel reduces global warming. I had heard this somewhere else before the program, and was interested by the suggestion. Of course it may have been reinterpreted as an error, but this new report makes me wonder. Btw, regarding the trackplan, wouldn't reversing the release crossover simplify operation? As drawn, the train will have to shunt back a considerable way before the loco is able to use it. Thanks Dave (Long time lurker...)

A correction to my previous post. The STOP board has been there since at least 2005, as I found after checking through older photos, and now I look for it, it was still there last Christmas. It is at the exit from the engineering sidings where the tampers live. Thanks Dave

Seen at my local station. The only problem is that it's a 12 car platform, and Overground trains are only 5 car. Dave

Chairs moved while your handbuilt track sets? LT tracks at Stratford 2014. Dave

I don't know if this fits in here, but this stop marker doesn't look modern era to me. It was in use on the Oxford shed site in December 2017, but not there in 2016 or 2018. Were these regularly used so late on or is this just a convenient one-off installation? Thanks Dave

These two pictures are of a gateway near Silvertown station site. I don't know if it had an arch, but I wouldn't be surprised. It served a jam factory. I like the amount of skew on the inset track, to get on to the site Dave

I too have a horror of warm milk from my school days. We are on the verge of stopping our doorstep deliveries, as the keeping qualities of glass bottled milk don't seem as good as the supermarket product. Regarding top colours, apart from some like gold top and possibly green, I think it's only in the last 25 years that a standard has arrived, though I might be confusing the foil bottle tops with plastic lid colour standards. I can't offer much information regarding milk processing, in spite of having visited the Job's plant in Didcot, as a child in the 1950s. Dave

In Firefox it's under "history", which might be a toolbar icon or menu item depending on setup. Dave

The Aladdins Cave site is bounded at the side by the new curve (well, 1930s?) to Lewisham. Any remains of the track towards Greenwich would have been swept away. The platfom level of the station building must remain, but I don't know if it is still accessible. Looking over the bridge parapet, I haven't spotted any access to track level. Thanks Dave

A bit more info. When it happened again, just now, I closed the tab then checked recently closed tabs.The label was win erx03, which I googled and its a fake virus popup. Plenty of info on removal for various browsers. So far I have only had it pop up on rmweb, but I wonder whether it only affects the first tab. I will demote rmweb and see if it affects other tabs before removal. Thanks Dave

I've had several variations of this a few times recently, as far as I know only when on Rmweb. Sorted, for me, by closing the tab and relaunching rmweb, (I'm using Firefox). Malwarebytes was updated and a scan run, but reported nothing. I had planned to check out a few more things before reporting. Thanks Dave

Templot will import from the NLS maps as a background image. This should allow them to be printed to scale for your model. Importing is quite straightforward, but I haven't worked out how to print them out yet... Dave

This is the OS map from about 1950 https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.660000000000004&lat=51.4689&lon=-0.0216&layers=170&b=1 The NLS site has 25 inch maps of London under both the Great Britain, and England and Wales series, I think this is the latest available. Hth Dave

Mine end up in the plastics skip at the local recycling centre. I have bins for scrap plastic, metal, wood and electronics. These get taken to the council centre whenever I have a worthwhile load. I have to trust that the council send the scrap for responsible reuse. Dave

Some history of St Johns, at London Reconnections https://www.londonreconnections.com/2013/accidents-and-islands-a-history-of-st-johns-station-part-1/ Part one of several, with similar pictures to that posted, Dave

If the bow ends were to reduce the corridor connector reach, then why curved ends on non corridor stock? As with the handed ventilators, it suggests to me that common jigs were used, and it wasn't worth creating new jigs for centrally placed ones. In the days of the Collett coach production, was the construction of the interior part of the coach integrated with the outside framing, or would it have been built into a completed coach body? Dave