[redgreggie]

Hi, just found this today, thought I'd better title this introduction as I have, because I found this through my membership with Ships Nostalgia........and as my interest with trains is for steam trains only........and the nostalgia that links in with a sometimes seeming 'different' lifetime.
Perhaps that's what happens when you get old, you remember the 'good old days', the 'good old days', are usually the days of one's youth, my younger days were fortunately the days of visually beautiful steam trains, days when me and some mates watched trains at the bottom of Stubley Hollow, the only place to spend the days away from grown ups then, well that's not exactly correct, there were lots of 'other places' around Dronfield Woodhouse.
The smell as the train sped under the small road, not really a tunnel, but the train ran under the road, we would get lost in the steam as it wallowed upwards.

We use to visit relatives in Dronfield, this usually meant I would see at least one train that I hadn't spotted before, and I would have to remember the number for the rest of the time, until I could record it in my Ian Allan trainspotters book for our region, always the soft cover, there was the same in hardback and I believe that cost 10s and 6p, a lot of money in those days, anyway it was 'the thing' to have the soft back 'scruffy, wrinkled', book, it showed you was a regular spotter, didn't like people that pretended, serious business it was.

Then when I left school I joined the Merchant Navy, in the days when we had 'a Merchant Navy', like everything else........not the same now as back then.........progress, they call it, what I'm doing is nostalgic, hence the title.

I'd better stop......nostalging, and get this posted, and see what the site has to offer.

Ray.