Tim V

You haven't excluded them so here is Clevedon miniature railway in 1962. I am on the train! The sea is just behind the bank on the left. Donkeys are in the field on the right. Punch & Judy were often in the same field.

Thame, Oxfordshire? Here's the gap in 1978! Standard type of box, pictures on this thread of a couple the same.

Maiden Newton January 1975, when the Bridport branch was still open. And then in 1985.

Tintern, 1993

I've done this, but on wagons rather than coaches. The plan was to do some proper loose (or fly) shunting. In your case, quite easy to set up the loco and coach as a consist for normal running, but for what you plan, just have two drivers, one for the train, one for the coach. As the train approaches the slip point, uncouple using the onboard uncoupler, briefly slow the train as you slow the coach, then accelerate away leaving the coach to coast in. You could set the deceleration on the coach for very long, don't forget that the coach cannot accelerate - unless there's a downhill stretch.

Goathland 2014.

Then it's not a B set. Can you modify your post title.

I believe the Comet kit you have is for diagram E147 or E129, neither of which had the recessed handles.

If you are going to mention No.9, then No.3 is even older at 1878. Carried this number on the Corris, the GWR, BR and then Talyllyn.

Or they live further away. Originally, they would have lived within walking distance, but with the contraction of the Somerset coal field, the miners were travelling from other closed collieries.

Here is the car park at Kilmersdon Colliery in 1972, see what cars you can identify! Also you can see the steam from the Peckett.

I went to Southwold once, in 1994. I was on foot, managed to find some of the trackbed. Then, I went to the museum "only open in the afternoon" said the person there. "But I'm going to a wedding this afternoon" I said! She let me in - there can't have been that many weddings that afternoon - she probably was aware of it!

Do you have his book 'Narrow gauge modelling' (Wild Swan)?

Presume you know of Peter Kazer's work?

Or Marsh Brook in 1980 and 2013!

How about Craven Arms, first in 1980, then in 2013.

3m lower - that'll flood nicely!

Stonehouse 1977.

Another box where the double glazing salesman has struck! Seen here in 1979, the bobby was proud of his hat!

I like seeing crowds in front of the layout. i think these periscopes the children are using are great. But who is that guy leaning on the barrier - a doppelganger of a well known person? St Albans 2013.

Beamish box in 2013, Horsted Keynes and East Grinstead in 1978.

That Cambridge signal looks different in my photo? April 1978.

It surprises me how many boxes still survive. However, neither of these does. Hungerford 1977, and Kintbury in 1977 and 1978.

Apparently the box and the station were opened in 1944. Since you asked about it, here is the station building - same asbestos roof.

A couple from the London area. Broad Street 1984, Northolt Junction and Old Oak Junction in 1981.