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After a recent visit to the National Railway Museum at York I've been inspired to paint my version of Mallard passing through Little Bytham at 123 mph from 3rd July 1938, shortly to hit 125.88 mph one and a quarter miles after passing through.

I normally only paint Marine paintings, usually battle scenes having recently painted the Battle of Flamborough Head which is now in the Filey museum.

What I need is an authentic layout of Little Bytham circa 1938.

Can anyone direct me to a photograph please from 1938.

Not directly, but if you search on the RMWeb forum, Tony Wright has built Little Bytham in 1958. If you contact him (by PM, say) he might well be able to tell you what was different in 1938 or direct you to available sources.

G'day Gents

I've often wondered what the station staff thought when Mallard made her dash through LB, they would have been used to trains passing through, in the 80's and 90's, but one going through at 123mph, would have been so different, the noise and the station shaking would have been far worse.

I was very conscious of the usual trains at Southend Central, but when a class 37 with the steel plate train came through for Shoeburyness, it was so different.

manna