Turned up at work yesterday ...

[speedbird591]

... and found this sitting around. Who can say what the connection is to British aviation?



Ian

[petermcleland]

Battle of Britain Class

[Tomliner]

Beat me to it Peter!(mind you that's not difficult!) EricT

[DaveB]

(mind you that's not difficult!)

Not if you know the answer Eric. I had no idea!
ATB
DaveB

[speedbird591]

Correct! Tangmere.

Oh, you can always unearth the closet train spotters with a little quiz I wouldn't have marked Peter as one, though, I expect it's general knowledge in his case!

Ian

[petermcleland]

Correct! Tangmere.

Oh, you can always unearth the closet train spotters with a little quiz I wouldn't have marked Peter as one, though, I expect it's general knowledge in his case!

No you are wrong Ian...I was a train spotter in my youth in London (which in those days was called "Smoke"). I lived in North London at Southgate and most of the stuff I saw was LNER...However, I sometimes made a journey by Tube to Manor House where I caught the Tram which journeyed through the Kingsway Tunnel and came out on the Embankment near Cleopatra's Needle...Then I walked across the Hungerford Bridge to Waterloo Station...There you could see those wonderful locomotives that were very different from our lot...Merchant Navy Class, West Country Class and later the Battle of Britain Class. There was something rather special about them and I often made that most interesting journey to see them. Needless to say, I would always be clutching the appropriate Ian Allen book

[speedbird591]

They were heady days for young boys who liked trains. My brother had the Ian Allan books but we lived in Kent so he only got Southern Region stuff. You were lucky living in the smoke for that reason! That generation have grown up but haven't lost the habit so nearly all the spotters are getting on a bit! Not many new ones as the trains are boring.

I'm at work now, having a break at Pompey. We hit a cow on the way down which damaged the train and caused quite a bit of damage. What's worse is the smell in this heat. I think most of the cow is stuck on the engine under the front carriage. No glamour nowadays

Ian

[TSR2]

Beef Burgers for the passengers on the way back then Ian

Waste not want not

[speedbird591]

I'm gagging on the smell as it's now my end of the train

I'm going veggie. Deffo

[Garry Russell]

Hi ian

Are there not many kids train spotting nowadays?