Simon Lee

Would be interested in a pointer to a list of your books please ?

Here is a view of 7 Section taken from the lines over 5A bridge, in the right background the building that looks a bit like a house was part of Dairycoates offices.

George was quite a character, I was in there one day the guy in front of me bought a loco, I bought 2 Mainline 03's (remember them) George gives an almighty shout "fetch a bucket of water the tills going to overheat". The shop on the Old High Street was run by someone who worked in Waterloo offices, his elderly mother usually kept the shop open, she knew as much about model railways as most people.

Hardly useless information, without their efforts the loco wouldn't have moved. Before I joined the ranks of the retired, Steve used to be one of my drivers for his mundane day to day jobs Phil's description is spot on.

Sometime between May 1985 and September 1987 as on enlarging the photo my brown Mk3 Cortina can just be seen in the Ferry yard shunter's car park........ The Jetfoils had mixed crew, the pilots were American and the cabin/deck crew were Belgium girls

LP is a loco pool enquiry. Wagon pool enquiry is X4 Location enquiry is X3 All of course can give a mulitiude of detailed or summary information. Who can remember what an IL or AM procedure were/are used for.

Sees a long time ago this happened but a repaired Saga Sky left Dunkerque on the 24th Jan destined Santos Brazil, currently just entering the Bay of Biscay. Good work by Normed Dunkerque.

Here are a few photos taken at Paragon 1110 arrives with a Kings Cross train Spring 1973 On the same day a BRCW Calder Valley unit arrives from Leeds Forward to 1979 and the last diagrammed through Trans Pennine unit to Liverpool awaits departure time. Finally 1978 and Paragon pilot detaches a van from the rear of a DMU arrived from Doncaster.

Nothing out the ordinary in these 3 but a flavour of what was to be seen in 1974 Class 40 heads off Cricket ground curve A 37 heads for the coast. A 47 heads a return Sunday Working Mans Club excursion back to the West Riding at White bridge (Woodgates Lane)

What time frame are you looking at Simon? I have copies of my brothers records which cover roughly 1963 - 1967, I can offer quite a lot of info from 1967 to the mid 70's. Can't guarantee any great gems but happy to look through and see what I can find. Regards Simon

Photo taken February 1981, (appears on the DIsused Stations website)

Clearly you have a dislike of Hornby and it's Class 71, seems strange to nail your colours to the mast when in an earlier post you admit to not having seen a DJM loco in the flesh. For the record I have 2 Hornby 71's, a DC kits 71 and a DJM one on order so I'm keeping an open mind. Having shown both to drivers who worked on the locos they were mightily impressed with the Hornby one, and are interested in seeing my DJ one as only one has vague recollections of the on in GFYE. I have no real interest in sound fitted locos, what's important to me is a locos that accurately replicates, as far as processes allow, its full size counterpart, the Hornby one does and I look forward to seeing my DJ one in the flesh to again make an accurate comparison between models and the real thing but I would be foolish to state that either one is the mutts nuts without seeing theDJ one on the desk in front of me. Mr Jones clearly from what he posts on here has a good skill sets in marketing, and producing models, your comments regarding Hornby and the Apprentice do seem a bit strange, not only to me but to others who have stated same as well.

In what way do you consider this model to be poorly designed ? I have two and they run and look fine.

Chrisex/Carolex for Canterbury and the Cathedral

Those barges are usually built like the proverbial outside convenience. Way back around 1976/77, I was on Hull docks one day and got talking to the crew of a pipelay barge owned by Land and Marine Contractors. They were proud of the fact that their floating workplace had been built in 1943, as part of the then up coming Mulberry harbour installation. Over the years I kept checking and the barge was in service well into the early 2000's, working on projects all over Northern Europe. Certainly a life span many times more than was envisaged in 1943, and a tribute to the builders of the time.

The Maunsell cycle carrier can be seen in one of the photos posted today, it's a PMV in crimson with a cycle image stencilled on the side. There are also some reliveried/weathered vans on show I suspect one of these is the Ale van. Looks like a large proportion of the 17 wagons will be reliveries.

On their Facebook page someone asked the same question, the reply was details early next week. 17 wagons is a lot of wagons,am intrigued as to what's on offer.

Saga Sky now enroute Dunkerque, would imagine the crew will be glad of a night or two alongside.

Gantry cranes

been on a run carrying wood pulp from Brazil to Northern Europe, currently ( was) en route in ballast to Uruguay. The gantry cranes can be used for just about any bulk cargos.

Saga Sky now safely anchored in Hythe Bay off Dymchurch. Dover and Dungeness lifeboats now released from this service. Good result all round, seems the rock barge saved a far worse outcome, (and DT and his camera a few more trips up to Shaky)

Once his engines failed look like had very little choice in the matter given the wind in the area !!!! http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:1/centery:51/zoom:10

RAIB Press release https://www.gov.uk/government/news/fatal-tram-accident-in-croydon

Green and Blue / grey then..................... on a Trans Pennine.................

Long ago when there were rails on the Admiralty