Rail UK Forum Wins YREA Award!

[HSTChris]

Hello everyone.

As the manager of the Youth Rail Enthusiasts Association, I am pleased to announce that the Rail UK Forums have been awarded Railway Website of the Year for the school year 2009/10, as voted for by our members.



Congratulations

For more information about the awards and to see the other award winners, please visit http://awards.yrea.org.uk/

 

[AlexS]

What on earth is YREA, apart from sounding like Urea, and how long has it been around

I can't say I've ever heard of it!

 

[transportphoto]

As it says on the banner...

The Youth Rail Enthusiasts Association.

See their Web.

 

[MCR247]

No-offence or anything, but should that really mean anything?

 

[Dai.]

No-offence or anything, but should that really mean anything?

RailUK has won.. something!

haha.

But um, well done?
Never actually heard of these awards, who exactly votes in them?

 

[thefab444]

Never heard of this YREA thing. But it looks like an SE thing judging by the photo on the front page. The sort of veg that do the "chain pulling" thing to get horns from drivers, and shout "NICE ONE DRIVER, THANKS MATE" everytime the driver does his job by powering up the train. :roll:

I don't know but it wouldn't suprise me if Fred Ellis (some of you may remember him as 777fred) is involved as well.

 

[ralphchadkirk]

Never heard of it before. Does this award actually mean anything?

 

[HSTChris]

RailUK has won.. something!

haha.

But um, well done?
Never actually heard of these awards, who exactly votes in them?

I, along with some friends, set up the Youth Rail Enthusiasts Association back in April. Since then, we have gone from strength to strength. We run events and competitions as well as a forum for young rail enthusiasts.

The YREA Awards were voted for by members of the YREA right through from the end of April to the 29th of May, and the winners were announced on June the 1st.

Never heard of this YREA thing. But it looks like an SE thing judging by the photo on the front page. The sort of veg that do the "chain pulling" thing to get horns from drivers, and shout "NICE ONE DRIVER, THANKS MATE" everytime the driver does his job by powering up the train. :roll:

I don't know but it wouldn't suprise me if Fred Ellis (some of you may remember him as 777fred) is involved as well.

Allthough I am from the South East area, we are for the whole country, and have members from areas right accross the UK.

We do not agree with 'chain pulling' as you call it from our members as it distracts the drivers and could proove to be dangerous. In addition, we are not a meets group and we do more than this - There are plenty of meets groups already.

Hope this helps you all out.

 

[yorkie]

To be honest I hadn't heard of YREA before, but thanks

I don't think it's fair to suggest 777fred is involved and I can't see him voting for us!

We do not agree with 'chain pulling' as you call it from our members as it distracts the drivers and could prove to be dangerous. In addition, we are not a meets group and we do more than this - There are plenty of meets groups already.

Hope this helps you all out.

That's good. The 'chain pulling' looks embarrassing and could be distracting and am glad you disapprove of it. I don't think it's fair that anyone associates you with that without any evidence, very few young people engage in such practices but they do give young enthusiasts a bad name.

 

[thefab444]

I don't think it's fair to suggest 777fred is involved

Care to repeat that?

That's good. The 'chain pulling' looks embarrassing and could be distracting and am glad you disapprove of it. I don't think it's fair that anyone associates you with that without any evidence.

Well, I can't be bothered to find it, but there's evidence on YouTube that members of that group certainly used to indulge in the a bit of the old "chain pull", whether that's changed since that group's been set up I couldn't possibly say.

 

[HSTChris]

We're not a group, we're a website, so you can't really compare that.

 

[thefab444]

We're not a group, we're a website, so you can't really compare that.

Well, in my post, read website for group. Point still stands. Besides, to my mind an Association/Community is a Group.

 

[HSTChris]

Thats alright then, we don't want to be seen as one of those massive congrigations of chain pulling noisey people you often see in videos lol.

 

[thefab444]

I can quite understand your point of view and I'm glad to see there's still a few sane young enthusiasts out there!

The point I was making was that members of your website/group/association/community, call it what you will, are in YouTube videos doing the chain pull. But anyway, let's not make a meal of it - I'm sure you've taken adequate steps to discourage it.

Congratulations to RUK for winning this award.

 

[37401]

Don't get me started on 777fred, he made that video of the virgin 90 set where he is clearly [allegations removed], not seen any of his posts since really

 

[yorkie]

Care to repeat that.

Well, he's made 4 posts, so not really that 'involved' and I can't see him being the driving force behind us getting the award

Anyway let's not make this a topic about someone who appears to have little involvement with YREA and has not been on this forum for a long time, as it won't achieve much and he can't reply, so it's a bit unfair.

 

[CarterUSM]

An award is an award! Take it with good grace.

 

[ChrisTheRef]

YEY!! We won something!!

 

[matt]

As Yorkie has pointed out can we refrain from talking about a member who is not able to reply, ta.