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No. 3: Nice shot; right place, right time, plenty of snow!!

I'd be more worried about what idiot out there has your personal details????

I remember that article, and the attempt to save D601 (thankfully, I managed to see her twice before she was cut); such a shame it never came about, but I also remember the almost total bias against diesels, even then!

Never let your Mother, Girlfriend or Wife do your ironing, either; best results are D.I.Y !!

Hey, as the sticker on the back of my cars says, 'Leave won' ; just a shame that woman's cocked the whole thing up!!!!!!!

Expected, I would imagine?!? I remember an Old Oak Common open day during the early '90's, where there were loads of newly ripped-off Class 50 nameplates for sale at around £100.00; horrible plates, but I wish I'd bought a few then!!!!

It all came together on No.6, didn't it; well done!

No way can we remain in the EU; May was possibly the worst home secretary in my 40+ voting years, and now she's given it all away without a fight to a bunch of Eurocrats who have never quite got over the fact that we saved their collective nations in both World Wars. I speak as one who has...

Couldn't put up with those noisy kids without having a pint and a smoke, so OK if those were included too!!!

Read further up; It was termed a TRAIN Station in the original text!

You're kidding!! We all used to 'Bunk Off' school , from time to time, back in the long, lost '60's!!! I'm a South Londoner, by the way!

Welshbluebird, agreed you should buy something if you're using their facilities, and last time I passed through Woking is was a RAILWAY Station !!!!

Western Ways, in tribute to a lost way of life and superb depot

With you 100% Thunderer, this great route was never in need of electrification, simply a 21st Century HST would have given us everything, and more. Deluded Politicians with no real-life experience, surrendering to hysterical climate change dogma are ruining this country, and this been but a...

There are many I could name as personal favourites such as 'Southern Steam Surrender' and that ilk, but my vote goes to an early (1974) David&Charles book on the WR Hydraulics, which gives a really interesting account of some less known problems the introduction of the initial locomotives faced...

Of Course, but then then again an original Merchant Navy did not survive ( interestingly enough, 'Clan Line' was the last in original condition, lasting until late 1959), so this would also count as reviving something which we currently don't have

Diesel Hydraulic transmission with twin Maybach engines, and the styling that'll last across the decades; then I'd call it a 'Western' !!!

Ah, as one who used to see them storming through Wimbledon in the mid 60's, and where by that time the originals were well outnumbered by the Rebuilts, I'd welcome a re-Airsmoothed Merchant Navy, particularly as was pointed out earlier, the cost would be more or less the same??

Well , part of what it would look like ,presumably, would be the retention of the better Southern route to the West, and the chance to catch an invigorating train-ride to Ilfracombe (I never knew this line during it's use, but saw quite a bit of it before the track was then ripped-up; some...

Harking back to your list, and explanation of therein, Merchant Navy No.35011 will be utilising significant parts of the original Rebuilt Ex-Barry Loco (ie, Frames and Wheels etc, and presumably some of the boiler) to classify this as an 'Un-Rebuilding'?!?