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PS I'll shortly be on a pal's online radio show blathering about this, details to follow!

Very good of you! Will be in the post very shortly! Cheers

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 https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/withdrawn-condemned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?

Thanks all for your thoughts! I wish I could remember more detail on them, I think they were the four-wheel Ferret type things... of course you also got a glimpse of the more out of date stuff around that time if you entered Portsmouth by road, courtesy of the scrapyard there

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...

I definitely recall green livery! 1650488819 Stayed local then, more or less... I was too young for pubs in those days, seldom went to Hayling, so had no idea about it being there 1650489430 June 1979 it says here, which concurs with my summery memory of it! Thanks all - never would have...

Ah, a 'Hayling Billy'? You could be onto something there!

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...

Thing is tho, on encountering it in 'adult life' in that location, I had this 'we've met before' thing about it!

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...

On the subject of 56s, I'm sort of curious on these, as I do remember seeing them somewhere that year, but in hindsight not clear where - so they'd have been regulars here?

Thanks all, interesting stuff - so Westbury had a depot? I don't recall seeing that, all I remember is bagging numbers from that platform, plus companions venturing out to identify what was going past on that avoider line!

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, sorry, I tend to just drop a question here and then don't visit for three weeks! Thanks so much for the input - reconstructing my childhood here!