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I remember going to the Isle of Man with my parents for a week's holiday in July 1959. On the Sunday we went to the out door church service at Kirk Braddan. The IoMR ran a special train service from Douglas to Kirk Braddan which was top and tailed by two of the Beyer- Peacock 2-4-0's, one of...

I won £200 so that's a couple of pints!

On the IoM railway trains were never double-headed up Nunnery Bank. They were always banked up at the rear with the bank loco dropping back before it got to Port Soderick station.

If it was beer I'd be demanding a top up!

2-3 weeks settling time seems a bit over the top. I can, however, recall the Blackpool Camra beer festival in 1975 when we ordered some Taylors beers, which was perhaps the first time they had been available so far west of Keighley. The Taylors rep was horrified when he saw that we were serving...

Some of the WR chocolate and cream coaches indeed ended up far from their homes. I remember spotting at Leyland in the 1950's, a couple were attached to the morning Birmingham to Glasgow train during the summer months bringing a bit of colour to our maroon world. What I can't remember is whether...

Once when traveling from Preston to London my electrically hauled train was diverted via Earlestown to Warrington due to engineering works, in the 1980's I think.

I'm 82 years old and have a smart phone and always use the self service check out where available. I would like a robot like Linda to look for my marbles.

Perfetto! However when Italians go to bed they put on a pigiama (singular) whilst we put on a pair of pajamas even though there's only one of them!

One line that I always wondered what it was there for when studying my rail map of Australia was the line from Croydon to Normanton in Queensland. Totally isolated from the the rest of the Queensland network it runs diesel railcar service called the Gulflander.

So the 1400's are the veterans now! When I used to go there they were the modern intruders we tried to avoid, like the FLIRT units of today ( or is it tomorrow?). I'm sure it's a good book but, for me,the Douro valley had its heart ripped out when all the narrow gauge lines were closed. I...

Samuel Barber 2nd Symphony. After Aaron Copland, Barber is my 2nd favourite American composer.

I think that Sir Lindsay will tell him, in his rich Chorley accent, to take his bin off his head.

Here's the Ceske Venice to Gmund train arriving in Gmund I photographed in 1971 behind a class 556 2-10-0. Impressive motive power for such a short journey! 1785404209 Ceske Velenice not Venice!

The Fowler 0-8-0's spent their last days at sheds such as Bolton, Agecroft, Aintree and Wigan (L & Y) on pick-up freights. They were known to us spotters as Clonks, due to the sound they made.