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Wahey I got on!! Cant quite believe it myself, the HR person rang me this morning to tell me i got a place on their Apprenticeship scheme in Gosport, and then 2 years training at Rugby or Bletchley in Signal Engineering. 240 out of over 3000 got a place, so im quite pleased! Time for a...

Another bout of news from the bowels of the Not Very Reliable, the new attraction, which is my 1993 built 2-man petrol Alumicart, built by R Bance of Surrey. Found dumped in a forest, miles from any railway, obviously lying there for years getting battered by chavs etc, i decided to take it...

As i have now started work on this carriage, I thought id post a few updates to its status in this thread! Currently at the Nene Valley Railway, the sleeping car is a 1930's built Wagons-Lits (pronounced Wagons Lees) Sleeper coach, and is in a very poor condition, and has a small number of...

Completely railway unrelated i know - Does anybody know the shortcut to finding out your credit on Vodafone? its *#XX#, can you tell me what the 'XX' is? Cheers

Photos/Videos and sample of the NVR DVD will be up tonight, i will edit this post when they are.

Heres a competition for you. www.fusion.railukdns.com/models.htm Submit your name for my model railway here, and then the best will get through to round 2, the vote. The prize: well, you get to name my railway, get my respect, the satisfaction of winning, and your website link in the top...

Does anybody know how to get a Non-Commercial LUL Photo Pass? they should be free, if you are not selling the photos, but where do you get them?:?:

Hey, check out http://www.fusion.railukdns.com/models.htm for pics of my railway.

hey all, i was just wondering, is there anybody else on here with a MML 08 shunter, i know they are rare, but i was wondering how rare. just out of interest, how much would people pay for this model *if* it was being sold on?

todays trip back from Yardley Chase TA/C involved a ride on an old Atlantean double decker, travelling at about 40mph on the A45 being over taken by chavs swearing at you... it rocked from side to side and also nearly tipped on a roundabout.. ive seen better suspension on a pacer! ohh and it...

im out on exercise with d company... its going to be cold, wet and very windy aparently! and i only get about 4 hours sleep:( each night... atleast get to shoot things though! ill be back on sunday:razz:

Is it just me, or is it going downhill very fast... last year it was really warm and sunny this year it was a reallly early heatwave, then it flooded, then it was rain cloud rain cloud for the rest of the 'summer'! [apart from my holiday in buxton, no rain at all!, the AMEF weekend, and...

Q: What do you get when you cross a bunch of angry chavs with a trainspotter?? Well i thought i was funny! lol

My new website is now up and running (well 12% of it..) and the galleries will be continually updated this week, class by class basis as it takes time to upload all the photos. Also there will be videos, model railway pics on there too. As with most rail phography sites, the photos are...

Today me and my friend went up to nottingham, (but changed at leicester so we could get on a very nice PV HST) On return to the staion, as we borded the same HST to go back to leicester, we were standing in the vestibule of the coach neasrest the front, and we saw two asian people, standing...

Here are some of the more amusing definitions of 'basher' terminolgy i have found: Clag: A term describing the often spectacular exhaust emissions of many older British diesel locomotives, especially Classes 52 and 55. Bashers often enjoy these effects by flailing and getting wound-up...

Regarding the idiots who spray painted over loads of trains etc, and got a big jail term for it.. vote for wheter you think the setence was too long, just right or to short. Some cheeky bloke even rang into Radio 1 during the news, and said: 'who cares if they are spraying trains.. they look...

DONT try this at your local rail station: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/in_pictures_enl_1188461309/html/1.stm

Is it just me.. or are TOC ads getting sillier and sillier... http://www.virgintrains.co.uk/tvads/default.aspx And i'd hardly call a 220/221 a 'big train' lol

Does anybody know the minimum age or a train driver? and do you get a 'priv' if you work on army trains?