York Railfan
 

Hi
I live in York and have just joined this forum.

My main rail interests are:

• Minsters Rail Campaign - re-opening the Beverley to York railway line
• Australian diesels especially New South Wales 48 Class and Victorian B class.
• Great Eastern and railways in East Anglia
• Photographing all aspects of UK rail
• I am building my first model railway - Australian diesel although an 03 shunter is a definite possibility!

Looking forward to some intersting discussions. I am also interested in rail capacity and timetabling and railways in the political arena.
Dave

Hello Dave and welcome to the Railway Forum.

Hi from me too Dave and a warm welcome. Hope to see the results of your hobbies and look forward to the GE and all things Anglian.
Regards
Phil

Hi Dave, welcome aboard.

As I'm only about 3/4 mile from the old Stour Valley line (Stoke) I will be interested to hear anything you have to say about East Anglian lines.

Hello Dave and welcome to the forum, enjoy and all the best.

Thank you all for the warm welcomes. I should also add to that I am trying to update and expand any information on railways on Wikipedia. So far I have contributed on:

• Felixstowe Branch (and stations)
• Framlingham Branch
• Aldeburgh Branch
• Ipswich Engine Shed
• St Johns station (Lewisham where I used to live)
• Greenwich Park
• D2950-D2952 dock side shunters

If any of you get a chance to read and want to add or correct anything within these entries either drop me a line or become a Wikipedia contributor!

Dave

Hi Dave & welcome to the forum. That little lot should produce some lively debate.....just don't get me started on railways & politics, Grrrrrrr ;)

Best wishes,

John FP

Politically the railways have always been a second class citizen in the UK. i find it curious that Transport Minister is not one of the top jobs and is filled by either people going up or coming down to/from higher things. We have been lucky in that Adonis and, after a shaky start Hammond proved to be excellent home secretaries and I am hoping HS2 will be built. Lets hope the new appointee will follow two class acts.
Dave

Welcome to the Forum Dave.

I hope that the posts on the posts on this Forum are more acurate than those on Wikipedia, well most of them! Hell is likely to freeze over before I contribute to Wikipedia, but then one should never say never!

Best wishes,

John H-T.

John
think of all the useful knowledge you could contribute to expand and improve Wikipedia! Its not perfect - it would be helped by not having open access editing but having a definite log in protocol.
Regards


Dave