BBC Trainspotting Live

Starts Monday 8pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03xx9tx

 

@rickyrooo1

 

I'm watching paint drying all next week don't think I could take the excitement of trainspotting as well.

 

I may well watch it

 

WHAT!!!!

 

I'd sooner nail my Hampton to the table

 

We're all gonna prob watch it now just so we can come on here and rip it to bits, problem is thou I might start liking it

 

I had a girlfriend in the late 80s whos sister sang in a punk band, which mixed punk, folk and railway enthusiasm, including train spotting. They were reasonably well known and still around. http://www.blythpower.co.uk

She took me out for a few days 'on the rails' , with the 'shed by shed' books. Boy, was she fit....temporarily got me interested, in train spotting. Still don't see it as boring, even now

 

Me and my mates were trainspotters in the 1950's and early 60's.

I was lucky to be a kid during the steam days. We spent our pocket money on trips to the London stations, Brighton and Guildford and Eastleigh and the school railway club organised loco shed and works visits. The best was Old Oak Common at Acton, in 1958 when there was still a lot of steam around. I can remember the Old Oak Common shed round houses full of clean and green express locos being made ready for expresses out of Paddington. The Kings and Castles were wonderful.

I am still mad on steam in my old age and spend many hours on the preserved lines and once a year I buy a mainline steam trip. Magic.

 

Guys they are just f ing trains with different numbers on them, they are all the same, this is turning into the prototype bay . Com

 

C/O VIZ

 

I use to do it as a youngster many years ago.
use to get what was called then a platform ticket which allowed you onto platforms to watch out for trains, cant remember the amount of times we then jumped onto the first train, didn't matter if it was going north or south. been kicked out of first class loads for not having a first class ticket, jesus we probably didn't have a ticket at all

 

It's people like you that have brought this country to it's knees, shocking

 

I cant remember now if you could sneak onto either preston or crewe station through royal mail depot so didn't even need a platform ticket.........

 

Went to my local Spa Valley Railway last Sunday to enjoy their Steam Gala and what a fantastic time I had. They had lots of steam and diesels and steam traction engines and stationary engines and I had a few trips up and down the line in their restored guards van, open to the elements at the front and back. Also there were a variety of classic vehicles and the weather was warm and sunny.

They also laid on a very popular Real Ale and Cider tent.

Who says trains are boring. Certainly they are not. Eridge station on the line is also a BR mainline station with trains from London and Uckfield. So you get to see the modern trains alongside the old.

I met folks who work on the trains and some who restore them. I met a nice chap with an mgb who spends his weekends at the Bluebell railway restoring old carriages doing wood work and metal work. Its become a very big scene with nice people volunteering their time and skills.

 

Uhh...I think you'll find there are several kinds of coupling as well, some of which are really quite interesting. I have an album full of photographs, if anyone's interested. The Mk 2 chain and link is particularly fascinating...