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I feel I have little option but to reply again to posts on this thread, but hopefully this will be for the last time. I’ve just noticed you replay Max to the email you suggested I send, apologies I didn’t realise you’d posted it, I will endeavour to answer it though as honestly as I can. With...

yes I`ve just emailed you Max, but thanks for the comments, no problem though just too many rules for the likes of me haha, I`ve made my mind upto leave now, and besides I can get a cantakerous old sod at times, but thanks for having me and keep up the excellent work mate, it cant be an easy...

Sorry Max I refuse to be drawn in further, no further comment. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Max, i`ve just realised you are a moderator, it would appear its alright for me to get sniped at, but not for me to snipe back, no problem, its not the site for me mate, thanks for your...

Its funny how this passion has developed, being of an older generation, the steam generation, it never ceases to amaze me the amount of children still coming into the hobby. I was at the ELRs Thomas weekend earlier today and it was great to see young children, with an obvious passion, enoying...

'The Railway Navvies' by Terry Coleman (ISBN 14 020903 4) , yes i can certainly recommend that one, an excellent book

thats my collection, I`m afraid I`m terrible at collecting books, there is such a welath of interest our there though. Yes i have that one, "Diesels and Electrics in Action" and "The East Midlands", good luck with your quest.

Now thats not very nice is it peter, oh but for the spirit of youth, but yes please keep banging the head though I`m sure some sense will comefrom it! Oi and please dont mention me in the same context as the labour Government, I still have some pride left, but now you have confused me, I...

Its sounds like a great weekend, a site I`ve not visited for some time.

cheers, keep us updated paul

"If you had an Argos gift voucher could you stay in Argos all night?" haha I`ll have to try that! Of course you can`t really compair argus with a national public transport system, Argos are free to close down stores whenever they wish, the people who presently control the railways can`t...

haha, I think it say 'Thou shalt not strangle the passengers!!!!!!!!. Its a great shame other don`t share our respect for the railways, you spend years restoring a teak Gresley coach to better than new standard and some women comes along with a pushchair chipping chucks of wood from the...

some of the best books I have on railway network history are the Regional History of Railways in Great Britiain and the sister series Forgotten Railways by various writers, each volume covers each region of BR from the building of every line to the closures, I use these all the time for...

I`m a bit off the beaten track really, we`ve never had a railway in the village although the lanchasire and Yorkshire railway did once get planning approval for a branch which they never built. My nearest station was Middleton Lancs (as it was originally called), circa 2 mile away, but Beeching...

thanks Craig, nice to here the old place is still in existance and being used, yes it was a DMU depot in the seventies, steam finished early on the Western region of course once the Hydraulics were introduced. I really must get down there some time and vsit the site again. Thanks again.

some nice photographs, thanks, I`ve yet to see one of the Voyagers in the new Cross country livery

good comments and yes I certainly would, despite my views on the nanny state, some poor sod has to take over all responsibility, and if it is for the reasons stated above Dave, then this would be perfectly acceptable of course.

yes having the choice is an important one, I must admit on buisness travel my secretary normally books me in first class, although i do occasionally feel guity when I see people standing in second class, especially the elderly, on my personal trips however I usually opt for second class as I...

haha yeah me too!

a lovely part of the country, it sounds great, well done to all involved.

"True, but last time I travelled 1st class in the UK(last month, ArrivaXC) I ended up putting on my own headphones (Bose by the way, so hardly cheap and nasty ) to drown out the racket of gits hammering away on laptops and droning on down mobile phones. It was like travelling in a bloody typing...