BBC Trainspotting Live

I would have thought the welding experts on here would jump at the chance to weld on an old steam loco. The preserved railways always want skilled welders. I admire the chaps who are building from scratch a new loco 'Beachy Head' at the Bluebell. They can look back in later life and say, I helped to build that engine.

 

Do yu do slide shows?

 

Cool people these days 'surf' the net, 'rip' files 'game' and 'code'. All of which is looking at coloured pictures on glass screens. cant see how train spotting can beat that!

 

I have a short Powerpoint presentation on vacuum brake couplings, if that's of interest. I put it together while I was in prison for child-molesting. I think you'll find the early Model 27 with lengthened corrugated tube particularly stimulating.

 

That one for Great Western Rail actually made me lol...

 

Can you data stream me a copy as I feel if you put it on general release It may cause mass hysteria ?

 

I like them all, but the GNER one contains an error, the numbers were never crossed out in the books, but neatly and carefully underlined. We used to write down the numbers in our notepads and in the evening after a day's spotting we would do the underlining.

Our big ambition was to see all of the locos in a class. The last one was a 'cop' and was a big event. Some classes like the Black 5's were too numerous to spot them all. Some locos I never saw in BR days now turn up in preservation and I still get a certain excitement when I see them for the first time.

There are locos out there, rescued from the Barry scrap yard over 30 years ago and last steamed in 1967, being restored and another came back to life recently, a Merchant Navy class. I just love those dedicated folks.

I mentioned the 'new' Beachy Head being built at the Bluebell, well I had a lucky 'cop' in 1957 on a visit to Brighton Station and shed with my mates when we saw Beachy Head in the yard looking fantastic after a Newhaven boat train run from Victoria. We never saw it again as it was withdrawn a few days later and like a lot of locos in top condition were scrapped on the whim of someone in an office. It could and should have been saved but BR wouldn't wait for a preservation group to buy it at scrap value.

 

I'm genuinely gutted. When I saw a tread about bbc trainspotting live. I thought it was gonna be about Glasgow smack heads. What a show that would be.

 

Having known about this for ages and been reading discussions on a rail forum I frequent I expected nothing more than the usual guff you lot give out when a stereotyped hobby is mentioned, I've said before but here we go again, there are many strange trainspotters and they give a bad name to the normal ones, I grew up trainspotting I wrote numbers I rode on them, then girls came along and I forgot them, then when older I discovered them again, all the time I did these things I never got into a football fight or something as equally moronic as some accepted "hobbies " do (don't even start on fishing- oh my god how pointless is that?) but still trainspotting is strange " here is the news, today in France English trainspotters fought with Russian trainspotters over who's engine was best" and we're the morons? Anyway I expect just to add to the stereotype this program will have loads for the holier than thou lot to have a go about.... Or of course you can watch England lose at something again I suppose?

 

It could be worse you could be a old hippy driving a old van

 

Unlike you lot of sad gits I've seen the future

 

yeh but ive been to the future cos ive been out

 

Dear Mr @rickyrooo1
I feel so very sorry for tagging you in this thread that I knowingly know would mock and try to belittle the normal spotter into the anorak spectacle wearing sad git the media has lead us to think you are.
I hereby way of an apology I give you a week's free camping at my place in sunny France (valid between November - December 2016. Offer does not include cost of travel to or from my gaff).

 

Gee so kind, no passport tho and no intention of getting one.

 

After reading the above I feel I should apologise for all the times the Chelsea train would pull into Crewe station on our way to far off northern cities and out of the Windows we would sing

" Trainspotters, Trainspotters hang em hang em hang em , Trainspotters Trainspotters, hang em hang em hang em"

I hang my head in shame

 

As I say, some trainspotters are "sad" some football fans are violent, there's no doubt which of the 2 are more of a menace to society and I'm happy to be on the "sad" team

 

Deep them lyrics.

 

Weeeel...you won't be able to go to the US, where they do trains much, much better than we do. And they've got proper horns on

 

We all change with age for the better I would like to think, at the time it was seen as a bit of fun but for the trainspotters on the platform it must of been horrible, those were the days when black players were subject to some disgusting terrace songs, luckily we've moved on