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"Beav" wrote in message
... Are you kidding? I was an absessive train spotter when I was a kid. I lived close by a MASSIVE siding, complete with all the maintenance sheds. (This was in the steam days too) A day at the sheds was better than a day at Disneyland for a train lover. All the building were destroyed when I was a kid though, along with most of the local stations so it was a very short obsession. Things don't get much better than riding on the footplate of "The Royal Scotsman" when you're a steam driven kid. I spent most of my childhood being dragged around from Portsmouth to Doncaster, Newcastle to Crewe, all over the place by my dad in search of elusive engine numbers. I enjoyed it, as it was a day out with my dad, which looking back seemed quite rare. I loved the adventure of the travel, going somewhere I'd never been for a day with binoculars and a camera. My dad grew up in the steam age, and worked in his teens on the footplate of steam trains coaling the furnaces, before he joined the RAF. So I guess I can excuse his anorakism! Si |
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