Posting the photo sent in by DF set me thinking that I’d seen this scene before. A search through the archives has brought this photo to light, taken from virtually the same spot, this time on a known date – 13. 07. 1956, almost 55 years ago. Well worth comparing with the previous photo, now on the ‘Blog’ page – see button on bar above.

A Register member who also subscribes to ‘Steam World’ Magazine has sent in this copy of a photo that appears in the April 2011 edition. It is a view of Launceston SR station, showing a Standard 2-6-4T at the platform. A Royal Mail J waits outside, parked alongside a couple of lovely advertising hoardings. It’s got to be worth nipping out to your local newsagents and handing over less than £4 to add this to your collection. Thanks DF for sending this!

Driving home the other day I heard something on the radio about the South Bank putting on some celebrations to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Festival of Britain. This apparently includes trying to find the remains of the Skylon, a futuristic, cigar-shaped steel structure that became the abiding symbol of the Festival.

Two brightly-painted Forte’s Festival Food J-types (registration numbers OBH 118 and OBH 745) worked as supply vehicles in the Festival Pleasure Gardens at Battersea Park. Wouldn’t one of these be a great thing to recreate…