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Enthusiasts (such as the children you see at diesel galas) often have a different agenda from railway folk, simple as that.

There's bound to be a talented bod on this forum who could mock up a picture!

Great to see youngsters getting involved! Good on you. I think the GBRF livery looks fine, as I said earlier - is that the 'good steady income' you were referring to? I quite agree with that. It was just the alternate naming I had a problem with, but absolutely no problem with celebrating a...

Points taken, and I'm sorry to have made you angry. But let's not forget the youngsters who weren't even born when these magnificent locos were doing their thing. To paraphrase you, are they not allowed to be photographed beside RSG? That loco has a particular relevance in my family, and my...

No harm, but you then can't get a picture of yourself with 55022 because it says 55018. For everyone who loved Ballymoss, there are those who love RSG and want a picture beside her.

Tomorrow I'm aiming to travel from Nailsea through to Padd and have booked the through service each way. However, whenever I've tried to do that journey on an 800, it's been terminated short at Bristol on the return. Fingers crossed for this time...

It's not too bad at all (but I hope they leave MY paintwork alone!). What I have found questionable, though, is badging a loco with the name+number of another (withdrawn) loco: these two 50s are an example, running last year with Neptune and Centurion names+numbers on one side. Even worse was...

I always loved to be at New Street (wait, I haven't finished) when the Clansman was being announced. From the mundanities of Wolverhampton, Crewe and Wigan, we were transported to Pitlochry, Blair Atholl and Kingussie. It really felt like a journey to another world.

Lovely memory! They had the same type of thing on Virgin Cross Country (before they split to become West Coast and XC). I well remember getting kids' packs when travelling up to Derby to see my nephews. They even had two types of pack, one for older and one for younger children. The backpacks...

Not available in bookshops or on Amazon, but from the Great Western Society at Didcot where it's being sold as a fundraiser for the class 47xx they're building: 'Memoirs of a Western Footplateman', an account of one chap's footplate career on steam and diesel through the 1940s to the 1980s, from...

Except when it's Didcot. I really, really want to scratch 'Parkway' off the station nameplates!

It's beyond awful to think how traumatic that was for those crew members who tried to help. Wishing them well.

Her Majesty is quite happy but the King's Cross... :lol:

That's right. Fantastic service. Very different from recent experiences on GWR when I've been on trains terminated short/cancelled and made to wait ages for an ongoing service.

The Mazey Day Cornishman railtour in June, two Class 50s and a rake of 1980s Mk 2s (I think!). Glorious weather, the locos didn't miss a beat, I had so many great conversations with like-minded folk. Perfect day.

Scottish smallpipes for me. A marvellous moment was being the Lone Piper at a war memorial, piping a lament while a large crowd stood in front of me in perfect respectful silence. Music united us.

Hello John, and welcome! Separate from your job application, I would just urge you not to be embarrassed by your hearing aids. It really doesn't matter these days. It needn't be seen as a sign of old age, or lack of ability, so just go ahead and wear them like I wear my specs! Wishing you all...

Feeling your pain there, my friend! But I'd nominate race goers (as mentioned more than once in this thread) as the worst I've encountered. Two examples: at York, totally tanked bloke urinating openly in the middle of the pavement outside the station, not even attempting to get up close to a...

Oops, I stand corrected. Whatever the method, I still take my hat off to VTWC for doing what they did, especially as it didn't even occur to me to ask for it.

VTWC stunned me recently by refunding my fare even though I hadn't asked them to. There was a power outage at Wembley on the day I was travelling, delaying everything out of Euston, and I eventually got going an hour and a half late. Still, I got to Edinburgh in comfort and in time for tea, and...