Recent content by Sun Chariot

I think the revised Railfreight Distribution livery really suits the 99 shape.

Good spot @High Dyke - the Type G (which sought to remedy the Type F's failings - info linked) are surprisingly uncommon now and I know of only three in southern Hampshire. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/post-your-post-boxes-photos-and-fun-facts.293070/post-7764648

I've had to adjust the cooling-group grilles on this side of the class 99, to fit a large number. I've stylised the yellow, as the full yellow cabs looked awful on it!

They are indeed Rochdale lasses! :lol: They had already been barred from Castleton and Oldham; I wager they are the real reason why The Black Horse is boarded-up. ;)

I rather hoped those five shifty metal-thieves might get their come-uppance... :lol: 1792072523 I'm thinking about a virtual scene in homage to the late Sir William McAlpine's Fawley Hill Railway, on his Oxfordshire estate. A 1:14 incline rising to 1:13, all adhesion-worked. Here's a YouTube...

Epic image @CaptainHaddock, it's exactly how I remember it in 1998 :lol: 1792067615 Hard at work. The grimy J94 and its driver have no time for the young shirkers. An imminent blast of the whistle will see off their moody demeanour and get them running.

The BBC News branded helicopter flew low over our house and, a little later, flew back. When my wife saw the info and photo on X, we put 2 and 2 together.

I had the erstwhile Middleton Towers line in my mind, when I wrote it. Formerly two- track, the gap between surviving pw and the left fence (behind riders) is clue of its former status. The field begged for a distinctive building, it's an enterprising Norfolk cottage-brewer. :lol: 1792059516 I...

And its journey reprieved, thanks to tactful negotiation by a young, yet-to-be Rt Hon David Steel (Lord Steel of Aikwood).

The sight of fox-hunts; and media coverage of hunts versus hunt-saboteurs. The Whaddon Chase used to pass Young Chariot. I detested the hunt. I despised the riders' arrogance; and their disregard for the welfare of their dogs and for the fox. Whist I recognised fox population required some...

And there was me hoping it might be George Clark's Amazing Spaces, or Escape to the Country. ;) 1791992226 Two-tier travel. Platform ingress/egress for First Class ticket-holders only. It could work. There was me, thinking Chris Green might have acquired the Pullman sets, given them a fit-out...

Super find. Same colour as my 1986/D reg 2600. Mine was registered October 1986; I haven't seen many 1987/D - and even fewer 1987/E. Mine went to the scrapyard in spring 2000, btw...

I knew I could count on you @Topological 8-) :lol:

Recalling the period from June 1963 to September 1966, with A4s on Glasgow Buchanan Street to Aberdeen '3-hour' trains. 1) 60024 Kingfisher flies northwards, through Angus county. 2) The Highland Main Line is re-imagined; this A4 is diverted from its 1963-1966 stomping-ground. Here are: WR set...

Hello @ohmydays98 - can your son confirm (to us on thread): 1) when he was stopped, what paperwork was he given? If he was given anything, it will likely have a reference ID and details of why he was stopped. He needs to keep it. 2) was your son issued with a Penalty Fare Notice? Cir were his...