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Normanwestie 路 61-69, M
ArishMell 路 70-79, M
@Normanwestie:
As another who goes a bit dewy-eyed at mention of magic numbers like "4472", "21C1" or "A4", I'm afraid you and I were born little too late for that... except on preserved railways of course. But then it's a hobby, not a living, so how to pay for the groceries? IT Systems Analyst?
As another who goes a bit dewy-eyed at mention of magic numbers like "4472", "21C1" or "A4", I'm afraid you and I were born little too late for that... except on preserved railways of course. But then it's a hobby, not a living, so how to pay for the groceries? IT Systems Analyst?
Normanwestie 路 61-69, M
ArishMell, I remember steam on BR (4-august-1968 final day) but I was too young to begin work as I was only 9 at the time
ArishMell 路 70-79, M
@Normanwestie:
I wasn't much older, at almost 16.
I wasn't much older, at almost 16.
Normanwestie 路 61-69, M
My favourite loco by the way is number (4)3924 on the Keighley & Worth valley railway. An ex Midland (not LMS but original Midland) 4F
ArishMell 路 70-79, M
@Normanwestie:
A reason for that particular choice?
I lived right by a main railway when very young, and well after we'd moved, for the last couple of years of steam operation we could just about see the comings and goings in the sheds from my senior-school playground. My uncle worked in BR's labs.
Yet though I support the railways I've never wanted to work on them, for some reason.
Nor did I become a railway enthusiast in the sense of learning to identify classes, origins etc of locomotives, apart from the most distinctive and well-known; but became more interested in their technical aspect.
I think now, had I known more certainly in my teens what I wanted to do for a living, and had the aptitude, I would have gone into one of the natural-sciences, probably geology or astronomy.
A reason for that particular choice?
I lived right by a main railway when very young, and well after we'd moved, for the last couple of years of steam operation we could just about see the comings and goings in the sheds from my senior-school playground. My uncle worked in BR's labs.
Yet though I support the railways I've never wanted to work on them, for some reason.
Nor did I become a railway enthusiast in the sense of learning to identify classes, origins etc of locomotives, apart from the most distinctive and well-known; but became more interested in their technical aspect.
I think now, had I known more certainly in my teens what I wanted to do for a living, and had the aptitude, I would have gone into one of the natural-sciences, probably geology or astronomy.