I like trains

I grew up on a railway station. My Dadcu (grandfather) was the station master. In the school holidays he took me to work with him. Get me out the house! I played on the platform and sometimes disappeared in the cab of those diesel engines. I think 66000.Anyway they were red and English, Welsh and Scottish. EWS.

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pknein · 46-50, M Best Comment

My dad drove locomotives... some happy memories sitting in the cab as a kid as he drove...

LilirWyddfa · F

@pknein Sometimes my Dadcu would find me in the signal box at Raven Crossing and the signal man would have caught trout. And my mamgu would gut them and cook them.

LilirWyddfa · F

@pknein it's sort of different aint it seeing the track and all the warning signs.

pknein · 46-50, M

@LilirWyddfa well i love trains.. id travel a lot more by them if the US had a better rail system. I have been up and down the east coast though

LilirWyddfa · F

@pknein I went to Mamgu and she lives in Redhill. I had the ticket on the train and changed in Cardiff. The trains from Cardiff are elerctric now. But from Reading to Redhill it's diesel.