Introductions

Goldfynche · 9 Jul 2013

Name Mike
Age 68
Location Ilford
Job Retired (Former Pro wedding photographer/videographer)
Interests trains, buses, aircraft. (Yes, I spot all three) Also blatant over use of my over 60s freedom pass. Travelling on all the lines and routes I never got a chance to when work got in the way.
My son is a driver on the London Underground Jubilee line. Having also done stints on the Northern and Metropolitan. (He wasn't that impressed with the new S stock.)
My daughter lives in Scotland. So I frequently drive up to stay with her. But if an all too frequent hospital appointment back in London crops up. It's quicker and cheaper, I find, to do the round trip on a Virgin Leany over thingy.
In my wallet all the usual plus a senior rail card and the London Freedom Pass

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56077GD · 17 Jul 2013

hi there,

I've been having a look at this forum with interest for quite a long time and finally decided to join. I have been enthusiastic about railways ever since the early 1970s as a toddler when my dad would often take me on journeys to various places including depot open days.

I love the BR blue era with a particular interest in electrics including the LMR AC and the DC Woodhead route.

I live in central Scotland and have fond memories of exploring the Glasgow area network with the various routes, depots and yards in the 1970s and 80s.

bb21 · 17 Jul 2013

Welcome guys. Hope you enjoy your experience here.

martyn29 · 18 Jul 2013

Hi all. Thought I'd start a new one, as I can't seem to find the old one. Although please delete this if I have overlooked it.

Name: Martyn
Age: 35
Lives: Leicester
Job: Travel advisor EMT
Transport Interests: HST's most traction, buses route masters enviro 400s
Something I could not live without: IPhone
Whats in my wallet: Debit card

Chutters · 4 Aug 2013

Hello everyone!

Name: Chutters (Nickname from school, university and ever since)
Age: 40
Lives: Manchester
Rail interests: Grew up next to a railway line in south Wales, so I had the joy of blue 37's at full power past my bedroom window, about 15 feet away from the line. Now just a frequent passenger on the WCML.
Works: For a bank. Don't judge me for it though!
Likes: 70's 80's nostalgia. Blue wasn't boring!
Dislikes: 6 hours on a Voyager to Plymouth.

I've been looking at RailUK Forums for far too long as a lurker, and decided it was time to join in!

ScottishIain · 6 Aug 2013

Name: Iain
Age: 25
Location: Newmains, Scotland
Job: Unemployed at the moment but a Volunteer Administrator for both Guide Dogs & Marie Curie. Also doing an Open University degree.
Rail interests: Was an interest of my late dads so guess that's how I got interested. Frequent user of the ECML between Edinburgh & Newcastle at the moment. More into passenger trains and diesel engines.
Hobbies: Football (big Hearts supporter), reading, music, driving, computers
What's in my wallet?: Debit card, 16-25 railcard, photo driving license, all sorts of loyalty cards.
Something I couldn't live without: My mobile or PC.

Amaroussi · 2 Sep 2013

Hi, I'm Antje - I tried using that username but the spam filter blocked it so it might be a technical problem (it's a very common German name). Can a moderator please check what's causing it?

I came here because I noted the London Underground subforum and there were some things that were not on District Dave so I needed to create an account to comment on the posts there.

bb21 · 6 Sep 2013

Welcome guys. Hope you enjoy it here.

@Antje. I will get my colleagues to have a look at it and get back to you.

Xenophon PCDGS · 7 Sep 2013

For the forum members who have only joined in recent times:-

Name : Paul

Age : 68

Lives : Prestbury..the best part of the Cheshire Golden Triangle

Job : Retired ..Was Senior Head of Projects at the consultancy.

Likes : The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Railway History and Books, Oldham Athletic, Hyde FC, Lancashire Cricket Club, The National Railway Museum

Dislikes : Fast food of any type

Annoying habits : Pedantry in all its unfortunate aspects... :oops:

Whats in my wallet : £300 in notes, Senior Citizen Railcard, ENCTS pass, Visa Debit Card, Harrods account card, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Society card, numerous cards that get stamped towards "a free" coffee, book of 12 first class stamps.

Resolutions for the future : Not to "wind up" MattE2010 and balne-wonderer in future on any RailUK threads....

loiner91 · 11 Sep 2013

Hi everyone, been browsing this site for years now, decided to create an account to contribute to thread discussions and share what little knowledge I have.

lol I'm probably the youngest member in here :oops:

Name: On here Loiner91
Age: 22
Lives: Leeds
Job: Student
Transport Interests: Leeds Buses, Trains, Trams and Trolleybuses (vintage and modern), and Class 158s
Like: football, trains, transport infrastructure, architecture, demographics, traveling, politics, science (nature and evolution) and computers.
Dislike: art, modern, music, fiction and "things which don't make sense".
Something I could not live without: The Internet
Whats in my wallet: Membership cards (not telling you anymore!

), Visa Debit Card, Provisional and Student Card,

ATW Alex 101 · 12 Sep 2013

loiner91 said:
Hi everyone, been browsing this site for years now, decided to create an account to contribute to thread discussions and share what little knowledge I have.

lol I'm probably the youngest member in here

Name: On here Loiner91
Age: 22
Lives: Leeds
Job: Student
Transport Interests: Leeds Buses, Trains, Trams and Trolleybuses (vintage and modern), and Class 158s
Like: football, trains, transport infrastructure, architecture, demographics, traveling, politics, science (nature and evolution) and computers.
Dislike: art, modern, music, fiction and "things which don't make sense".
Something I could not live without: The Internet
Whats in my wallet: Membership cards (not telling you anymore!), Visa Debit Card, Provisional and Student Card,

Welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy it

You're not the youngest here, far from! I'm 14, and there's loads of members under 22!

harry42 · 12 Sep 2013

ATWalex101 said:
Welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy it

You're not the youngest here, far from! I'm 14, and there's loads of members under 22!

Yup, loads are! I'm 14 and many other people are teens

NSE · 14 Sep 2013

I'd wager the majority of members are below 30.....

Starmill · 2 Oct 2013

loiner91 said:
lol I'm probably the youngest member in here

Name: On here Loiner91
Age: 22
Lives: Leeds
Job: Student
Transport Interests: Leeds Buses, Trains, Trams and Trolleybuses (vintage and modern), and Class 158s
Like: football, trains, transport infrastructure, architecture, demographics, traveling, politics, science (nature and evolution) and computers.
Dislike: art, modern, music, fiction and "things which don't make sense".
Something I could not live without: The Internet
Whats in my wallet: Membership cards (not telling you anymore!), Visa Debit Card, Provisional and Student Card,

BIB SOO many people think this - SO MANY, and myself included before I'd met anyone, and its just so far from the truth. By the way, take off a couple of years, the buses and the football and I could have mistaken that profile for my own!

gnolife · 2 Oct 2013

starmill said:
BIB SOO many people think this - SO MANY, and myself included before I'd met anyone, and its just so far from the truth. By the way, take off a couple of years, the buses and the football and I could have mistaken that profile for my own!

I thought you weren't interested in 158s, especially those operated by East Midlands Trains

Starmill · 3 Oct 2013

gnolife said:
I thought you weren't interested in 158s, especially those operated by East Midlands Trains

Good staff... don't blame the stock and all that

ATW Alex 101 · 9 Oct 2013

I did a little one of these a while back but thought I make a new one

Name : Alexander, Al, Alex, ATWalex
(call me Alex

)

Age : 14

Lives : Ellesmere Port

Job : Still at school, currently year 10, help out at the tip sometimes smashing rubbish up and help out at a Cub Scout unit for the volunteering section of my Bronze DofE.

Likes : Trains, woodwork, geocaching, ticket collecting, science, gardening, aviation, girls, fishing, DT, Football, Rugby, Fighting, cycling, Art, DIY, cooking and reading.

Dislikes : Bullys, racists, burgers, hotdogs, dogs, Xbox, general dickheads I see in school everyday.

Sports : Goalkeeper in Football outside school, Second-Row in school rugby B-Team and all-round defender in Hockey

Team Supported: Liverpool and secretly Blackpool :oops:

Favourite Food: Salt and Chilli chicken wings, Bacon, mums homemade stir fry noodles.

Favourite Tv shows: Casualty, London's Burning (Actually seen the guy who played John Hallam in something the other day), Waterloo Road, Educating Yorkshire

Favourite films: Commando, Erazor, Snakes on a plane, Inbetweeners movie

Whats in my wallet : £5 note, £1.85 RTV, Debit card, 2 Oysters (One's for my mate when we go down), Cheshire libraries card, school library card, clubcard, Nectar, Co-op Members card, Boots card, Bite card, various loyalty cards, tube map, menu from that chippy opposite Wembley Park station, various receipts plus other bits of crap that's been in there for about 3 years :roll:

bb21 · 10 Oct 2013

ATWalex101 said:
(call me Alex )

I can't be the only one that used to call you AT Walex. :lol:

ATW Alex 101 · 10 Oct 2013

Yes Yorkie mentioned that a number of people were referring to me as AT Walex on the West Mids meet! I know it's obvious but it's meant to be ATW Alex 101 as in 'Arriva Trains Wales' Alex 101

poshfan · 10 Oct 2013

Name: PoshFan
Age: 54
Lives: Stamford
Job: IBM computer programmer and full time carer.
Interests: Railways, football, cross country hiking

Crossover · 10 Oct 2013

bb21 said:
I can't be the only one that used to call you AT Walex.

Nope - me too!

Eagle · 10 Oct 2013

I did, where "Walex" is pronounced like "Wales" but with an x. (That is, pronounced "wailks".)

Starmill · 11 Oct 2013

I must be the only person to whom the clear reference to Arriva Trains Wales jumped out! Unfortunately I didn't register the rest of your name as a result of this. Least I didn't come up with something as awful as "AT-Walex"!!

gnolife · 11 Oct 2013

I've just noticed that I haven't put one of these out

Name: Dan
Age: 19
Lives in: Wythenshawe, a somewhat rubbish council estate in South Manchester
Job: In college, studying Accountancy
Likes: Football (Season ticket holder at Altrincham), reading (primarily in the fantasy genre), music (mainly prog rock stuff), Computer games (I play all sorts of games, but generally prefer RPGs and platformers), especially Pokemon, and just being outdoors, especially with my bike.
Dislikes: East Coast, Tubular (the level on Super Mario World), chavs, and especially chavs that insist on playing rubbish (in my opinion) music very loudly at the back of the bus, G4S at Manchester Piccadilly (who seem to have developed a particular dislike for me over the last couple of months), Connahs Quay, Steel, Flying or Poison type Pokemon. Oh, and Whitney's Miltank.
What's in my wallet: Nothing, because I've just emptied it out to see what was in there. What I found
College pass
Debit card
Nectar card
Bite card
Library cards for Manchester, Trafford, Stockport, Tameside and Bolton
16-25 Railcard x2
Family and Friends Railcard
Used tickets (2x YNG SPT - TNN, 2x YNG GBD - FRY, 1x YNG HDG - HYC)
Partially used ticket (YNG CHU - AWK, planning on using to go to Chester next week)
Dentist's appointment card.
A bit over 20 pounds
$3.64
an RTV for 12.50
a cheque for 57.90 that I haven't got round to cashing.
A photo of me, Sammi (my best friend) and Chloe (my niece) in New Brighton (a trip we'd taken in May after turning our wallets out and finding that we couldn't afford Blackpool)

theblackwatch · 11 Oct 2013

ATWalex101 said:
Yes Yorkie mentioned that a number of people were referring to me as AT Walex on the West Mids meet! I know it's obvious but it's meant to be ATW Alex 101 as in 'Arriva Trains Wales' Alex 101

What's the '101' significance then? You're clearly not old enough to remember the Class 101 units in service (scarily, it's almost 10 years ago since they finished...).

ATW Alex 101 · 11 Oct 2013

101 is just a generic term that I randomly thought of

43074 · 14 Oct 2013

Been on here for a year and a couple of days now so I thought it was about time I introduced myself :oops:

Name: Huw
Age: 16
Lives: Leicester
Job: Student, but also volunteer at the Great Central Railway.
Likes: Railways, Photography, Walking, Visiting wierd and wonderful places, Reading, listening to music, playing music, Playing simulation games.
Dislikes: Buses (especially Arriva Leicester), A-levels, Sport, people who tell me what I will or will not like.
What's in my wallet: YP Railcard, outward portions of Leicester to Loughborough and Leicester to Kettering returns, 2 month old bus ticket, several receipts, EMT pocket timetable Leicester to Nottingham, Cafe nero loyalty card, school bus pass, old EMT complimentary ticket, bank card, Leicester City Council Library card.
Reason for user name: I like HSTs

JackClare · 5 Nov 2013

Been on here last June to post a bit about the Manchester Met but then forgot about it until the other day when I got a message from Paul Sidorczuk which reminded me :oops:

Name: Jack Clare (rather obvious

)
Age: 18
Hail from: Oldham, Manchester
Interests: Train journeys, tram journeys, Physics, hiking, playing guitar, listening to music.
What's in my wallet: Two Muse tickets from previous gigs, debit card, 7 pence in change, house key, old train tickets (I should clean that out really), college card and the lid from a biro

harry42 · 5 Nov 2013

Here we go then...(knick someone elses template)

Name : Harry42 (You've guessed it...Harry)

Age : 14

Lives : Nottingham (chav town of the UK)

Job : Still at school, currently year 9, do DofE at reserve.

Likes : Trains, xbox, hiking, buses in nottingham, geography, tennis, map work, girls, cooking, boxing, reading.

Dislikes : Dentists, Majoirty of lessons, people who think there chavs and act badass, buses outside Nottingham, celery.

Sports : Play for local tennis club competitively, go to local boxing club when I can be bothered!

Team Supported: Forest, Ilkeston FC

Favourite Food: Any Italian food!

Favourite TV shows: Mrs Browns Boys, Waterloo Road, Top gear, Hustle

Favourite films: Shaun of the dead, Hot fuzz, Meaning of life

Music: Like-rock (not heavy metal) eg like killers etc, also like rap (but not one of those people who blur it out LOUD. Like Dappy. but especially JME.

Music: Dislike - Adele or similar of ANY form, annoying songs

Whats in my wallet : £20 note, tennis members card, Bank card, Micro mango bus card, library card, mcdonalds card, subway card, 30 bus timetable

David · 5 Nov 2013

harry42 said:
Team Supported: Forest

Someone has to I suppose. :P

harry42 said:
Whats in my wallet : £20 note

What's one of those? :?

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