Railway miscellania

Can someone throw light on this group of carriages? Although the LNWR & LNER liveries look good, there are modern features above and below the solebars. I am not sure of the date. I was visiting Olympia for a South London Warlords' annual 'Salute' wargaming event and I stopped going by 2000

Can someone throw light on this group of carriages? Although the LNWR & LNER liveries look good, there are modern features above and below the solebars. I am not sure of the date. I was visiting Olympia for a South London Warlords' annual 'Salute' wargaming event and I stopped going by 2000

A small group of four photos of three pre-grouping railway carriages, that used to be at Winchelsea Beach, in around 2005-6. I haven't been there recently, but the last time I was there, I seem to remember that the area had been smartened up. Whether any of these found their way back to a preservation group I don't know.

Antique railway carriages converted into holiday homes at Winchelsea Beach - photographed in June 1994. Although some of the panelling has been boarded over, this also looks like an ex-SER/SECR carriage.

Antique railway carriages converted into holiday homes at Winchelsea Beach - photographed in June 1994 The panelling looks, to me, like that used on South Eastern Railway stock around 1900. Kichenside's 'Railway Carriage Album' has a suitable candidate on page 172. It's the deep panels around the windows, combined with smallish, round-ended panels under the droplights in the doors, that lead me to that conclusion.

Antique railway carriages converted into holiday homes at Winchelsea Beach - photographed in June 1994 2015 It is a whole lot smarter now - but less characterful!

The ruins of the station master's house lie to the left of the lower view, next to the level crossing on the road to Tidemills. This together with the rest of the village and tidemills are currently being excavated and conserved by local archaeologists. The concrete station nameboard, seen in the middle of the upper shot, regularly has new graffiti inscriptions.

This view looks from near Tidemills, past the site of the former seaplane base, which was to the left, and on towards the harbour. This line's main function, in the mid-20th century, was to convey shingle from the east of Newhaven to the west. This and other interesting facts about East Sussex Coastal Railways can be found in two slim volumes by Paul O'Callaghan. The first is about the 'main' Ashford to Brighton line and the second covers branch lines and other railways. I have no connection with the author, but like to credit him with providing the information about this photo and the one of the original Bishopstone station. I think that the rails, since closure, at least at some places, may just have been used to edge the concrete path, as the gauge looks decidedly 'out', quite apart from the wobbles.

From John Sutters collection. Probably at Swindon - unless you know better! Later - It was and it shows a rerailing system trial.

From Railway Magazine for 1928. With the current interest in the Ixion O gauge model of Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0STs I wondered if this was a near relation. The cab extends forward over the safety valve area, but apart from that and the reference to it being narrow gauge it seems very similar. Narrow gauge could be either 2'6" or metre gauge as there were these and standard gauges, according to the RM article. Metre looks more likely from the size of the loco.

From John Sutters collection I think that this may have been taken by my father on his way to a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

A small group of four photos of three pre-grouping railway carriages, that used to be at Winchelsea Beach, in around 2005-6. I haven't been there recently, but the last time I was there, I seem to remember that the area had been smartened up. Whether any of these found their way back to a preservation group I don't know.

Antique railway carriages converted into holiday homes at Winchelsea Beach - photographed in June 1994. 14.5.2012 Judging by Google maps aerial photographs this edifice and the more modest, straight conversion of a railway carriage, to the left, both seem to have been around in the recent past. The Google copyright date is given as 2012, if I read it correctly.

Although illustrating the same article in a Wonder Book of Railways, I am fairly sure that this is not the interior of LNWR Dining Car 561 shown in another scan from this book. www.flickr.com/photos/phil-seaford/8496590040/in/photostream Although not dated, a chapter on Railways in Time of War, talks about the mobilisation of the british railways but does not give any indication that WW1 had ended.

Can someone throw light on this group of carriages? Although the LNWR & LNER liveries look good, there are modern features above and below the solebars. I am not sure of the date. I was visiting Olympia for a South London Warlords' annual 'Salute' wargaming event and I stopped going by 2000

Too early to be used for work on Crossrail!