Category Archives: Prototype

Time to catch up with some YouTube items.  As usual Jago Hazzard provides some of the most interesting material available.  Did you know that there was a 1943 plan to demolish London’s stations?  (Not by the Luftwaffe this time!) A … Continue reading →

Today’s selection of inspirational(??) start with this lovely shot of a  G6 at Clapham Juction in 1949, taken by Fred Steinle.  Still one of my favourite locomotives…. Some pictures from home turf – various trains at Redhill.  First, a CEP … Continue reading →

Some more random findings! Locomotive testing in 1948…. This weeks modelling challenges…. First, an oddity for Simon to model? An overhead electric FERRY – pull the other one!!! The Twisted Trees of Slope Point: A Bizarre and Beautiful Natural Wonder … Continue reading →

Today, we have the final set of photos from Ron’s trip west.  We’ll start on the West Somerset Railway. Washford and Blue Anchor Signal Box. Bishops Lydeard. Minehead. The sea – and the cider farm! And finally, views and railway relics … Continue reading →

We start today at Okehampton.  Looking towards Meldon Quarry, then back in the Exeter direction…. And so to one of my favourite lines, the Lynton & Barnstable Railway.  The original coach livery was most attractive… I built a plasticard model … Continue reading →

Ron’s travels this time are to the West Country, just about entering the land of the pasty.  Some interesting railway pictures are to come but we’ll start with his starting point, Barnstaple. To get there, he passed through Yeovil Junction….. … Continue reading →

The second set of pictures mainly show two engineers trains passing through Redhill.  One is headed by two Mainline liveried 73’s, the other an interesting double header with a 33 and a 73. And to close, some hoppers in the … Continue reading →

We moved to Redhill from Camberwell in 1986, and in those days Redhill station was a far more interesting place than it is now.  These pictures were taken in 1990, when I would take the train-mad Michael (age 4) to … Continue reading →

Simon sent me some good photos of his weekend in a Toad (brake van or caboose to our overseas readers) last weekend….. A few photos of our stay in a Toad at Northiam last weekend, including a spiffing meal on … Continue reading →