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You can remember your posher elderly relations fifty years ago having their copies of Radio Times in a mock leather or embroidered cover

Many thanks for everyone’s comments. Certainly the use of serif lettering would be different from anything else the SR produced to my knowledge. Also I’d never really appreciated the unusual US use of railway instead of railroad until now.

I noticed online that the Bluebell Railway have this yellow armband in their collection but want to know more about it and indeed if it’s from the old UK Southern Railway or from overseas. Knowledgeable information welcome!

Those wonderful green single decker Paris autobuses with the open verandah on the back. They were so elegant.

There was a discussion topic about illuminated station names in July 2021 entitled Station Names on Platform Lights. A number of photos of examples were highlighted including regional colour variations. Well worth looking at.

Indeed the tail end of the totem era produced a number of examples on Southern Region such as this example from Balcombe of 1963/4 compared with Barcombe Mills from the 1950s. Noticeably the later transport letter type has an oval shape of C and O and the length of the bars on the E differ. My...

This has all got me wondering about traversers such as at Felixstowe, Derby or the LT one which I think is at Neasden

Clever stuff but it’s basically ‘Dad Dancing’ which has been demonstrated successfully at weddings and parties for generations!!

Volks electric railway in Brighton is 2’ 8.5”

The Guildford Tramway in Sandwich, Kent (1903-1930) was 3’6’’ gauge. This was the only built part of the proposed Cinque Ports Railway from Ramsgate to Hastings.

I just found my coveted catalogue from the railway industry exhibition held at Willesden in 1954. The Fell was exhibit No 28 in the roundhouse with a new BR standard first class corridor steam stock carriage to one side of it and the Brown Boveri gas turbine locomotive on the other. The...

Absolutely wonderful and thanks for sharing AH. It was never going to win a beauty contest but it was no less innovative and epitomised a fascinating period of experimentation in the early days of BR. It looks like the love child of a class 37 and a couple of domestic oil tanks with coupling...

Thank you Cowley and to you too

Barnstaple Town, opened in 1874 as Barnstaple Quay

Wow thanks for sharing that. It covers so many of the discussion topics on this forum and should be compulsory viewing for all!

Thanks for correcting me on that Helvellyn. I travelled on them with my Priv Pass a few times; they were really plush and very comfortable

Two examples which spring to mind are the Southern Region 4-CEP EMU refurbishments in the mid 1980s and the InterCity Mk3s for the rebranded Manchester Pullman services a few years later (also the Liverpool Pullman if I remember correctly?)

Another vote for the RVR plus the KESR’s relatively healthy position

Sounds great. We’ve actually booked with Mercury but the itinerary is pretty similar to GRJ. Glad you’ve enjoyed your trip!

Thanks for alerting me to the Web of Fear episodes which I hadn’t seen since I was eight years old. It really captured my imagination at the time and I remember being rather scared to go on the Underground with my Mum for fear that some yetis might come out of a tunnel! The sets are good but...