Maxine and I spent a few days in Birmingham this week with friends, so I left the computer at home.  So today I just have a few pictures to show and tell.

Some more of John Atkinson’s excellent EMU pictures.  First Earlswood in 1979, five minutes walk from home.  We moved in shortly after the resignalling, so never saw Earlswood North signal box, lurking under the bridge in one of these photos.  And we never saw platforms 3 & 4 also pictured below.

Next, Redhill in 1978, 1979 and 1982.

Three pictures of the handsome LBSCR J class 4-6-2T.  There were two in the class, and one survived to carry a British Railways number. (Unlike the larger 4-6-4T locos, that were rebuilt into 4-6-0’s.)

Further afield, this is Stuttgart in 1980.  The new, tunnelled, through station is close to completion, replacing this terminus, where all through trains reversed.

And even further afield, a very modellable scene from the Lehigh Valley in 1950.  A trolley line passes under the main LV; perhaps the Lehigh Valley Transit?

Another modellable scene – Crabtree Crossing, near Belvedere on the North Kent Line.  One of those wartime signal boxes built to withstand a near miss from a bomb.  Unlike the other big-four companies, the Southern continued to build these boxes well into peace-time.  I suppose the North Kent Line has always been a bit of a war-zone…. 

ESNG meet again on Sunday, so I’ll have a few club pictures as get into next week.