Back in the early 80's, my mum nearly did get arrested for photographing Soviet trains!

Anyway, welcome to the forum Jonny. :)

Hi John,

Welcome to the Forum. Look forward to your posts.

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Zdrastvyetse Johnny,Kak dela?
(i speak a little russian)
I was wondering the other day what interesting locos there are in Russia!

Hi Jonny, welcome and enjoy the Forum.
Regards

Thanks so much everyone for such a warm welcome and I will do my best to take some good photos while I'm here as I should be back in the UK by next summer. I'm actually working right opposite one of their main terminus Paveletskaya so I have no excuse really.


Very impressive Dawn :)

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Privet, Ya ochen harasho, a ti? :D

Privet tovariche! unfortunatley I only know a little Russian and none of the english-russian translators know those words!(Though I've come across ochen before!)

Ochen = Very
Harasho = Good :D

I'm still only learning and it's a very difficult language. How come you know some Russian if you don't mind me asking?

err well it started a long time age when i was at school. There was a south african kid who could speak russian and i asked him to teach me, and he showed me a few words. Then we parted company, i left school(25 years ago!!) did the usual blah blah stuff and forgot most of it but was always curious about it, and then later when i got online i met a few russians on ICQ who also taught me a few words- theres also a guy I know in Siberia who used to be a DJ there and he would help me,through msn messenger, and in return I helped him translate some lyrics into english(he was in a band and put a CD together. If it ever got released my words are on it as well as my photo for the cover!)