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Think I had a six-point starburst. Used a couple of times and chucked in the back of a drawer for being too much of a distraction.

The wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNWR_electric_units says (my bold).

Nice choice of passenger accommodation there too - BR suburban coaches or a Cravens DMU. They’ll both get you there, slowly and not especially comfortably.

Looks like a long load with runner wagons towards the back - big girders or pipes maybe?

For more 33/1 photos, there's some (among the non-bagpipe versions) on the Cl 33 thread at

That's a chunky old wagon under the boiler. Never did get my head around those heavyweight special wagons - ID anyone please?

Looks like one of the old deicing units over on the left, withdrawn about 1978/79ish

That's my only objection to those "wrap" liveries - I've just been on a bus where only about a third of the seats had an unobstructed view and had similar on the Amalfi Coast of all places! Who'd be a group admin?! Keep up the good work.

Variation on "bus on the bridge" - canal boat on the river beneath the bridge. Perfect timing near Conisbrough with a Transpennine 185:

That’s a fine viaduct. The OS maps seem to show a couple of rights of way along the river banks - would that be too low down for a decent train photo?

Still a few miles off-topic, but if we’re talking D-stock, Bidston/Wirral is further than Shanklin, for the Transport for Wales 230s on the Wrexham service. Also further from London than Alderney! Plus isn’t there one or two in the US?

On the desktop, Bing maps has an OS layer. It switches to 1:50000 then 1:25000 as you zoom in. Is that the same as the live .com mentioned above?

Yes, especially the hill shading and the typefaces. I’ve got a bunch of them, mostly cloth-bound

The fold-out map (front and back) from the inside back cover of the Southern Region timetable book for September 1963. Plenty of now-closed stations and lines. And on the suburban map, a clever use of a limited colour palette to denote services from the different London termini.

Wearing an early version of high-vis?! Or at least a spot of colour in a low-key scene!