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A Very Very Merry Christmas to everyone - may your day be filled with love and happiness and much good food and drink. If you receive anything railway related as a present, let us know what!!

Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere but what do you guys do in the way of stopping unscrupulous people downloading your images. I have just starting building a Weebly site for my pics and wonder if I should protect the pics that I intend to upload. Looking at some of the sites listed on...

Can anyone help please. I have recently moved to the Newton Abbot area of Devon and would like to know of any freight workings especially if there are any in the evening - days/times would be great. I work Mon - Fri daytime finishing work about 5:30pm. I look at SWRG gen but it doesn't always...

Sorry if this has been covered before but which online gallery would you recommend and why please. I want to get my pics up somewhere and can't decide - smugmug, flickr, photobucket..... suggestions please.

Happy New Year to everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful 2012. What are your New Year resolutions? Mine is to get out on the railways more.

Where is your local station and what do you think of it? Mine is Branksome which is between Bournemouth and Poole. It is unmanned but has a lovely red brick station building and although they have been shortened, there is a canopy on each platform. I love going here because when there is no...

Are there any Forum members that are either regular or occasional visitors to Eastleigh station spotting the various trains coming through. I get up there from Poole when I can and it would be great to link us up here.

I am thinking of buying a Hornby intercity 125. It is an old 1970s bodied type but has brand new 5 pole motors and all wheel pick ups in both engines (so a true push pull dmu). Plus it is DCC with a chip in both locos and has red and white directional lights. 2 first class 3 standard class...

Tornado is doing a Valentines special on Sunday and I am going up to the Salisbury area to see her come through and get some pics. Although I know Salisbury itself, I would like to find a location away from the station where I can get some good clear shots. Can anyone advise me as to a good...

I wonder if someone could please tell me what settings I should use to take photos with our Nikon D60 at night. I am hoping to go down to Poole station tonight and get some pics of the stone train coming through about 5.40pm. The station is quite well lit. Any advice would be gratefully received.

Not sure if this has been on here before. Which famous person or celebrity have you met? I have met a few including Charlie Dimmock, Alan Titchmarsh, Murray Walker and Nigel Mansell to name a few. My best one would have to be Cher. I was working at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu...

Lovely day with my wife at Salisbury today to see Bittern come in - twenty minute halt on platform 4. First time I had seen an A4 in real life - awesome! Photos and pics at links: http://www.paulbeard.fotopic.net/c1787548.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f_Mg1Lm-1I

I would be grateful for feedback on a photo gallery that I have just set up. Having not done it this way before, it would be good to know what you think, not just on the content but also ease of use, layout, presentation etc. There are also galleries on other forms of transport. This is the...

My first visit to Westbury yielded some great trains especially the fabulous HSTs in FGW livery. Needless to say I got some pics. See what you think: http://www.paulbeard.fotopic.net/c1763262_1.html

Had a day off on Tuesday and spent it on Eastleigh station with some other guys and got some pics in the lovely sunshine. Sheds, gronks and desiros - see what you think at : http://paulbeard.fotopic.net/c1754094.html

Our thoughts and sympathies go out to all the families and friends of those ordinary people who lost their lives tragically eight years ago today. What must they have felt on those two aeroplanes not knowing their fate and then to realise what was about to happen - presuming that they did know...

A good turn out at Dorchester West station today saw 37670 & 37401 stop for a breather before heading on to Weymouth. This was the first 37 hauled service train since 37414 pulled the curtain down on 25th September 1999 and the first EWS / DBS 37 at Weymouth since 37401/406 on 1Z38 on 9th...

I am starting a collection of official railway lapel badges from TOCs, unions etc and wonder if anyone knows where I might obtain the Desiro badge as worn currently by South West Trains staff. Thanks.

Just a couple of shots from tonights Hamworthy Stone train on its way across Holes Bay Poole http://www.paulbeard.fotopic.net/p60101006.html http://www.paulbeard.fotopic.net/p60101007.html

My Fotopic site now has a selection of pics that I took on Sunday at Clapham junction. See what you think: http://www.paulbeard.fotopic.net/c1735896.html