Hi from me
 

Hi everyone,

I'm a signalling engineer but currrently taking a little break here in sunny Moscow, Russia

I stumbled upon the site whilst doing some googling and I'm very pleased about finding it

Look forward to meeting you all.

Jonny

Hi Jonny Welcome to the forum. Hope you can post some photos of Russian trains (without being arrested). Glad you found the site.

Hello Jonny,
Whats the weather really like in Moscow?
Welcome to the forum, you will enjoy this.
Paul.

Do you know Syd I thought I was going to get in first but you pipped me by a minute. Drat and double drat!
Paul.

Hi guys and thanks so much for the warm welcomes :)

Trust me as long as you have a few roubles in your pocket you wont get arrested for anything here in Moscow!! It's the bribe capital lol! I will actually have to get my camera out sometime and show you all some sights of Moscow's railway especially in the winter snow.

The weather here is really not quite as bad as people make out. This is going to be my 3rd winter here now and although yes it can sometimes get down to -30c that's not all that common and it usually hangs around anything from 0 to -10c What you must remember is that it's a dry cold so no damp to eat away at your bones and I actually used to suffer more in the UK than I do here but then again here in Moscow you do dress properly and their clothes are really made for these temperatures. Contrary to popular belief the summers here are actually hotter than back in the UK and dryer too. You could say the weather and seasons are exactly the same in Moscow as UK but more extremes, ie colder in winter and hotter in summer.

Once again thanks for the welcomes and I can see I'm going to enjoy my time here.

John

Hello John and welcome, looking forward to your photos. All the best.

Hello and welcome to the forum John, I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Welcome John. You can bribe people with roubles? I thought you needed to use foreign currency - or perhaps that's all changed now !
The way things are going, it could be the rouble becomes the stable world-wide currency and pounds, dollars and euros are just so much worthless paper [evil-grin smilee]

When you come home are you going to buy a football club John?
Or maybe even a railway.
Paul.

Hi Jonny welcome to the forum.

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 :)

In reply:

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!)