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Hi all, there's a limited print run of this one now available, on which a few board participants here would have helped out with various queries over the writing period... Doc Martens, diesel hydraulics, pre-teen malcontentment, absurd fixations with trivia: https://shunt-limit-2.myshopify.com/

Bit of a niche item perhaps, but finally got this up on Kobo, many thanks to various forum members whose responses have been a great help during the process! https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/withdrawn-condemned

Hi all, another of those frazzled areas in my memory banks, I recall if you were coming into Eastleigh from the Portsmouth direction, alongside one of the sheds to the left there'd be a steamer, partly concealed by tarps - but I'm not clear what it was and what time-period it would have been...

Hi, I found a scan of the above on line at some point but have lost it somehow... is anyone aware of a resource? I want to check my old route-to-school schedule, for deeply irrational reasons!

Hi all To this day I'm unsure of the correct name for it when a loco's got that 'nose' bit on the cab, like a 37, 40, Peak, Deltic etc etc... is it 'American style'? What's the standard way of describing these please?

Hi all, I'm back with questions again, like a curious orange... I've vague memories of Eastleigh's sidings having these long lines of flat tracks parked up, with military armoured, or scout cars loaded on them - never too sure where they were bound for, where they'd come from - appreciate any...

Hi all, trawling the memory banks again and seem to recall, many years ago, I think summer of 1979, walking towards Cosham station from the Hilsea area of Portsmouth, and a haulage truck going over the elevated section of road just at that point, bearing a preserved SR tank engine, presumably...

Hi, wondered if anyone can help with possible false memory syndrome! Vague idea I saw Columbine in a London museum back in the seventies, but nothing I can trace online seems to bear this out. Was it ever in Clapham Common museum, or Science Mus?

Hi all, yet another appeal to fill the gaps in my patchy memories - while I never witnessed the above in operation, I think I have some recollection of seeing one or more withdrawn examples idling on SR sidings, somewhere in the approach to London, I'd guess around Wimbledon / Clapham Junction -...

Hi all, yet again struggling to fill the gaps... I have distinct recollections of seeing around this time a) twinned up Class 20s on coal or freight duties and b) Class 56s, presumably on freight... but can't really recall the locations. I'd have done a bit of travelling on Western Region...

Hi all, hope someone can assist in a bit of reconstruction from the fuzzy memory banks here - recall at the time Westbury was a sort of 'easy reach' way for a Southern Region type to catch a variety of Western Region traffic, which always seemed rather more exciting. My memory of it is sort of...

Hi all, hope someone can help with a little info here - on the school jaunt back in 1978/79 (Fareham to Portsmouth/Southsea), I always remember there'd be a solitary Class 73 sitting at one of the lower level platforms at Portsmouth in the mornings - would anyone know what/how they'd have got...

Hi all, new bod here. Was hoping someone would know the details on this, I recall me and mates doing a spotter's visit to Reading, probably very early 1979, and on the sidings there was an out-of-action set of cars - in my mind it was an HST unit, that's how I remember this, as much as memory...