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I would have expected that this was the kind of stuff the NMR would have a record of, if not a full example each of the big four uniforms. Still my children told me the truth about Santa Claus.

Liskeard on the Western, above Moorswater I was told by a friend who witnessed it regularly as a boy.

Of course horse boxes travelled on passenger trains; most, if not all, had a compartment for the 'lad' or groom. I think there would have been all sorts of issues if they had been placed in a goods train, although a train solely of horseboxes may well have gone to race-course sidings.

That strange noise on your computer is not a train failing on Tenterden bank it is the hollow laughter of those north of the Trent.

They've been back ages on the Whitby lines. Hawsker Station has an ex-sleeper which has been on a tv ad iirc and the Normanby estate has installed a coach and baggage van at Sandsend Station for their guests or maybe only for the serfs.

The early experiments may have been underwhelming to those involved and their paymasters but Trevithick's early efforts at road locomotion made sufficient of an impression on the local populace to create the folk song 'Going up Camborne Hill coming down', so one shouldn't underestimate the...

The Devon Belle hurrying through Weybridge headed by an unrebuilt Bulleid pacific.

If you're going to include panniers can we count the three SR Z class that worked for the MOD in Scotland 1942-3?

It would probably help focus answers if the 'back story' of the modelled location was outlined. Is it an actual place or an imaginary location which might enable unusual traffic to occur believably?

I don't know how many survive today, but when I lived in Cornwall many station seats with cast iron ends had CR worked into their leg areas in the same style as the GWR ones across the Tamar.

Thank you for that.

i remember it well, it was Blackfriars railway bridge correctly the road bridge parallels it and is famous for having 'pulpit' shaped viewing areas above the the piers., The insignia was repainted sometime between 1960/1965 and was very big. I wonder if any where there is a photo of what was a...

IIRC when the metropolitan authorities were created in West Yorkshire there was a period of confusion because several different town holiday weeks were all now under the same educational authority. In Bradford for example Keighley was completely out of step for exactly the reasons we have...

This seems a suitable place to pop in a piece of trivia I discovered a few years ago when researching back numbers of the Halifax papers. Some of you will recall that for many years Malton was a major nightmare for road travellers heading for the coast, because it was beset with level crossings...

As the focus of your interest began with Reading I'm surprised no one has mentioned what we at Dorking knew as 'the Birkenheader' which would tear through mid-morning from ..was it Folkstone?.. to Birkenhead and had done since before WW1. I cannot recall ever seeing the return working was it...

According to the LMS society site the company inherited or created some 40 hotels. A quick look at the Mappin and Webb site is pretty inconclusive, but I'm sure if there is a specialist in Mappin Plate they may solve the GS 53/01 in a trice. All I can offer is that it must be between 1923 -1948...

I believe this was the preferred option of Goering g.m.b.h the town planning consultants back in the 40s

As I recall did many Southern Electric compartment stock in the 50s . They were IIRC always the compartment directly behind the Driver

Surely they're the raw material for the dock wall? It seems to be built from them.

Thinking about the long line of framed posters in the corridor at the Spa Pavilion at Whitby and the original artwork in the Pannet Art Galley these adverts begin in NER days and seem to have originated here. I suspect they were joint venture between the towns and the carriers and so the town...