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victorianman

Western Thunderer
Absolutely wonderful. Seem to be nice kids, polite, no drugs, no knives, no 'like', no phone screen gazing and no sneering from the interviewer.
What a pity the media, in its smugness, subsequently picked on trainspotters and railway enthusiasts in general to use as a shorthand for nerds and weirdos. I hope those kids have had a nice life.
 

delticfan

Active Member
Fantastic and I wouldn’t mind betting those kids probably in their late 50s have had interesting lives, imagine some older people today holding a conversation in such a way ...it wouldn’t happen. Takes me back my time was the late 70s early 80s and on the east coast, how lucky lucky I was to have been there.
 

ceejaydee

Western Thunderer
Lovely nostalgia.
Those lads are just a little bit older than me as I started spotting in 1981 aged 10.
Not so much fun these days.
However had most of the day without my vehicle yesterday and stuck in town 8 miles from home so I travelled the entire Bedford to Bletchley line just for a ride; I hadn't been on the line for many years and surprisingly I did enjoy the trip very much and found the class 230 units to be quiet and comfortable hiding their refurbished LUL origins quite well.
 

Lancastrian

Western Thunderer
Fantastic and I wouldn’t mind betting those kids probably in their late 50s have had interesting lives, imagine some older people today holding a conversation in such a way ...it wouldn’t happen. Takes me back my time was the late 70s early 80s and on the east coast, how lucky lucky I was to have been there.

Even better when they started running on the TP's through Manchester to Liverpool. Many a great day with school mates at the Miles Platting end of platform 11 at ManVic.

Ian
 
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