Well, I’ve run out of exhibitions, club meetings, and bird watching expeditions.  So it’s back to the usual odds and ends that have caught my eye….

Returning to the theme of monochrome layouts, I was very taken by this photo of Tunbridge Wells Central, by Neil Nevinson.  Vastly atmospheric, perhaps with a few photoshopped highlights (?)  Black and white photography at its best, and not a train in sight.

Also in black and white, here’s Aldgate in 1902.  You can almost smell the grime!  Aldgate in this era would make an interesting model, and it has some Minories like features.

A loco of similar vintage, but the photo is taken in colour, 50 years later.  A Beattie well tank shunting at Wadebridge.

And again of similar vintage, a very old picture of Holborn Viaduct.

Not a micro layout by any stretch of the imagination.  This HO module(s) of the Reading river bridge is gigantic.  I assume they will add some scenery across the river at ground level, and this will be quite something and a great place to watch the trains go by.

I do wish someone would make a ready-to-run N gauge model!  A North Shore Electroliner.  I sold my HO one, as I decided that I would never use it, but a little one…..  that would be different.

My favourite narrow gauge railway is the Lynton & Barnstable, as it’s not ‘twee’ at all and is a ‘real’ railway.  The colourisation has gone a bit off in the greens and reds in places, but this is a lovely bit of restored film.

Except perhaps Javan sugar cane railways!

Finally it’s Valentine’s Day today.  Just a polite reminder….