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Pubs within a few minutes walk of stations in my part of Lancashire I would recommend for their real ale are ; Preston - Old Vic (main exit) Leyland - Golden Tap Ale House (main exit on platform 1). Chorley - Inn the Dog House, Shepherds Hall (main exit...

You've a job to find the sea at all in Southport, particularly now the pier is out of action.

Traveling to Blackpool in the 1950's in non-smoking compartment stock there would often be someone, on a crowded summer Saturday train, who would ask if it was ok if they smoked. I never heard anyone object to such a request. I myself thought, "no, can't you read?" But as a child I remained seen...

I did the same on the WCML between Leyland and Preston. I do recall the track gangs themselves setting fire to the embankments in the early summer. These controlled fires prevented unexpected ones later on.

If you had your head stuck out of the window of the carriage next to the loco ,as I did once, and the fireman didn't pull the scoop up in time, then you would get a free cold shower.

I was a regular visitor to Portugal in the late 1960's and early 1970's when all but a handful of broad gauge locos had been converted to oil firing. On the narrow gauge, however, all steam locos remained coal fired to the end.

Perhaps the customers should wear T-shirts saying "We prefer lined glasses. That way we get to drink it all".

You can ring my local Chinese takeaway and order your food but you have to collect it yourself, no deliveries. Also they only accept cash, no cards. They do a roaring trade!

I use my Marantz SACD player almost daily to listen to some of my 2000 or so CD's of classical music.

I took this photo of a 231D at Dieppe in 1963. Was this the last year of steam on the Paris trains?

Of course Chorley now has class 195s on the hourly Barrow/Windermere to the Airport service. Stopping only at Bolton this diesel service is the quickest way to get from Chorley to Manchester.

If you see an elderly man with a Canon T90 round his neck ,then it could be me!

I started in 1958 and I'm still ringing. I'm a life member of the Lancashire Association.

I'm a church bellringer too! I had thought I was the only one on the forum.

I saw a narrow gauge Royal train on the Welsh Highland Railway on 30/7/2003 marking the extension of the line from Waunfauwr to Rhyd Ddu and conveying Prince Charles to the opening ceremony. The train was hauled by FR No2 Prince and Prince Charles rode on the footplate for some of the journey...

If it's brewed in the UK it's not Spanish.

As an 81 year old I've traveled on many a scheduled steam train both here and abroad. Since the end of steam on BR I haven't been on any mainline steam special. I much prefer a trip on a preserved railway, especially if there's a decent pub at the end of the line. It still comes as a shock...

I'm in Pickering and there are no steam trains until further notice due to a fire hazard. That made me sad. I then spotted a group of Swifts flying round the church tower. Happiness restored! .

I started trainspotting at the age of ten in 1954 at Leyland on the WCML. At first I used an Ian Alan London Midland region ABC. I didn't collect the numbers of BR standard locos at first because these were only printed in the Eastern Region book and the Combined Volume, neither of which I had...

The RC church does accept the baptism administered by other Christian denominations as valid provided it is done with water in the name of the holy trinity. Trumps problem is that he would have to be ordained a deacon, then a priest and then consecrated a bishop and then become a cardinal before...