title A Wintry Trip Down South, Walkford, Dorset - 1st February 2019 intro Nosher's down in Walkford for the funeral of an old family friend. As the car is away having a water pump fixed, this means getting the train, which turns out to be probably a Good Thing as it starts snowing heavily from Southampton. This also turns the whole thing into something of a major nostalgia trip, as it's probably not been since around 1991 that the once-regular Diss to New Milton journey has even been done by train - back in the era of the cranky old Class 438 EMUs, and not the shiny but soul-less 444s that run on the southern network now. Whilst there, there's a chance to hang out with Sean and Hamish, where we spend some time aimlessly driving around the New Forest - again, just like old times - before a spot of late-lunch at the Cat and Fiddle on the A35 near Hinton Admiral. Later we meet up with Phil and Tania at the Globe in Highcliffe, even though this time Nosher's not even staying at the next-door Premier Inn. On the way back, there are plenty of engineering works, and so the train takes a slow route all the way out via Fareham, plus there's also the joy of bus replacement from Newbury Park up to Ingatestone. Before all of that, Eye Library closes down as it moves across town. imgp7814 The classic 1960s stylings of the old Eye Library imgp7816 There's still a bit of stuff waiting to be cleared imgp7817 The plot is up for sale for housing imgp7818 The elephant is now in the car park imgp7819 Snow comes down on the footbridge at New Milton imgp7820 The station has not changed much since the 1980s imgp7825 It's snowing in Sean's front garden imgp7826 Mother's old pad - The Willows - in Bransgore imgp7828 The road out of Bransgore imgp7829 Messing around in the snow in the New Forest imgp7836 Hamish and Sean head into the Cat and Fiddle imgp7837 Sean pokes around with his cutlery imgp7838 Sean and Hamish look like gangsters or something imgp7839 Hamish is driving us around in the Green Machine imgp7842 The Cat and Fiddle - well-known landmark on the A35 imgp7846 Hamish makes some sort of fancy coffee imgp7851 Hamish and Sean chat in the kitchen imgp7852 Hamish and Sean in the lounge imgp7853 Hamish in the Globe at Highcliffe imgp7858 The boys mess around with the camera imgp7870 Hamish does the "it's this big" thing imgp7871 Tania, Phil and Hamish imgp7875 Nosher's Class 444 train pulls in to New Milton imgp7877 Brockenhurst College from the train imgp7878 New Forest ponies in the snow imgp7879 Graffiti on a bridge imgp7881 More trackside graffiti imgp7882 Some graffiti near Fareham imgp7885 A snowy field, somewhere in Hampshire imgp7887 Guildford railway station imgp7890 The very thin core of new tower blocks in Guildford imgp7891 The Seated Man by Sean Henry, at Woking station imgp7893 More track-side graffiti imgp7894 A massively-tagged graffiti building imgp7895 Man! graffiti imgp7900 Clapham Junction imgp7902 Liverpool Street's Deam is active here too imgp7909 Battersea Power station is a forest of cranes imgp7911 Track-side tenements imgp7913 The former international terminal at Waterloo imgp7916 The train arrives at Waterloo imgp7919 Ransomes and Rapier buffers at Waterloo imgp7920 The concourse of Waterloo Station imgp7921 A tube train pulls in at Bank station imgp7922 Down on the underground at Bank station imgp7924 Passengers head over to the rail-replacement buses imgp7925 The concrete brutalism of Newbury Park tube station imgp7926 There's a lot of drug paraphernalia for sale imgp7927 The train waits at Ingatestone imgp7930 A derelict building imgp7931 More derelict track-side buildings near Chelmsford imgp7933 Some sort of factory unit with silos imgp7935 The mud flats of Brantham, near Manningtree imgp7937 Boats on the mud imgp7941 There's scaffolding on a derelict building imgp7943 Derelict buildings at the Wardle-Storey site imgp7945 A derelict factory building or warehouse imgp7946 Derelict office block in Brantham imgp7947 Flooded wasteland at the Xylotol factory imgp7952 Pipes end in the middle of nowhere imgp7959 There's some street-art by the river in Ipswich imgp7962 A truly-ancient parcel van, near Freightliner imgp7968 Isobel and the boys are coming back from Norwich imgp7969 Diss railway station in a convex mirror imgp7970 The upstairs landing imgp7971 Fred's almost-empty room imgp7974 The spare room imgp7975 Boxes on the landing