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Thanks everyone for your wisdom and knowledge. Interesting to know about the rebuild. I'd still remain doubtful about the markings being translucent panels, or even, indeed, brand new steel panels to replace corroded ones, as the stripes are narrower than the width of a panel as shown in...

Hi Here's a photo of Treorchy, the mining town in the Welsh Valleys, taken in the later 1930s or possibly early 1940s. Blow it up a bit, and you can see three white stripes on the station roof. These do not appear on an earlier photo dated 1932. The stripes look for all the world like the...

Thanks so much Randy, and your links very interesting.

Just to share a screenshot at 18:57 from Rob Bell's Channel 5 series on famous ships, this being the Cutty Sark episode. It's an un-named dock in an un-named country. Just thought you'd be interested. Well, it doesn't look like UK, and the gauge appears wider than standard, suggesting...

Thanks so much. Sorry for delay in replying - have been away. Just what I needed to know!

Thanks so much. Sorry for delay in replying - have been away. Just what I needed to know!

Dear friends Does anyone have access to an old timetable which would give an idea of times and frequencies of trains from Penarth Station to Saunders Road Station or right past it onto the Riverside branch to Clarence Road Station. And how different was the service on Sundays? Also what the...

Thanks folks. I had not realised that the ROD also operated in the Middle East or used US locomotives. Have found an online photo of a US-built ROD tender loco in Palestine, as attached. So your suggestion of Middle East certainly makes sense.

I tracked down the brief shot to 23.37 in to episode 4 of Portillo's Railways of the Great War. And the photo is attached. These locos are massive. What on earth are they? Any ideas?

Thanks for all your comments. My impression on the very brief tv shot was of something very like your X-17 loco, PDEaves, but even more massive, and certaily standard gauge. The biggest saddletank I've seen, and looking quite like a large Baldwin. And having a similar ROD designation on the...

Hi On Michael Portillo's current tv series on railways in World War 1, there was a still photo of several massive 2-6-2 saddletanks of American appearance, with ROD clearly showing on the sides. I had never heard of such a locomotive before, and can't find any reference to them online. It could...

Thanks so much. Just what I was looking for. As well as an interest in railways, I've been doing a local history study on a family in Willington, our village, and just wanted to understand the context of their travel needs in the 1890s. And the level of service sounds not so different from what...

Hi Any timetable historian be able to give me a rough idea of numbers and times of stopping trains to and from Willington, on the Derby-Birmingham line, in the 1890s. Grateful thanks Tony