Potpourri #1092

Another selection of odds and ends, but hopefully no more bad news bombshells!

For the modeller….  I’m really sure how the Erie got this to stand up, but with slight upgrades and repairs, it was in operation till relatively recently.

erirbridge

Although you see pictures of London streets crammed with horses and early buses and cars, maybe this was a more typical sight?  Easier to model, anyway.

manchester-rdcjtv-14876914700

Haywards Heath tunnel, also known as Folly Hill tunnel is just 249 yards long, but looks shorter here!

haywardsheath

A very compact GWR branch junction, just about fulfilling Board of Trade requirements…..

gwrbj787a

Farnham in, I think, Southern Railway days.  The loco looks to be an 0-4-2 Jubilee class.  I like the advertisement board more or less fixed to the signal box.

farnham

Continuing the historic theme, some LBSCR wagons….

Bet they got to the right house, and quicker than ***** (fill in your favourite courier.)

paercels

Rivet counters (and the gullible) get everywhere…..

rivetcounter

Finally, a slightly prophetic advert.  Finally closed in 1979, and I bet they’re regretting it.

streetcars

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