Chuffed to bits!
 

Hi to all current members, young and old
My name is Phil and I have been under the the influence of steam from the fifties onwards. I look forward to contributing my memories and also replying to members and adding to the growth of an excellent site.
As a taster in 1959 or 1960 I cycled to Doncaster and went down the canal
until I was across from the Works. Looking towards the Crimpsal I saw engine No 60700, the unamed 'Streak', in the steel compound right next to it. Can anybody add to or comment on this? Its time I chuffed off!

Hi Phil, welcome and enjoy the Railway Forum.
Regards

Hello Phil and welcome to the Railway Forum. I too have been a steam fan since the early 50's. As a child I sat on thw railway line and stopped the Cape town to Bulawayo train just a mile out of the station because I wanted a ride on the loco. I got my ride and a dam good hiding from my dad.

Hi Phil, welcome to the forum, enjoy and look forward to your post
Regards
Alan

Welcome to the Forum Phil. Look forward to your posts.

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Welcome to the forum Phil, enjoy and all the best.

Welcome to the Forum Phil.

Hello and welcome to the forum Phil.

Hello Phil, welcome to the forum.A good site to be on !

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Hello Syd, thanks for the welcome. I think your good hiding was well worth it for the result you achieved!!!!

Thanks for your welcome its nice to be able to converse with fellow railway enthusiasts.

It was Phil, and it did not stop me bunking off to the railways when ever I got the chance. I wrote a bit about it some time ago. How I was taught things about locos and the railways by an Italian driver. If I remembered the lesson the next time we meet up, I was aloud to drive the loco (under his supervision). I ended up driving on the railway for a short time before I came to the UK. So as you say my good hiding was well worth it for the result you achieved.
Just a short rider to that, my father told me years later that it had always been a wish of his to work on the footplate but one he never managed to achieve.

Hi, interested in your choice of nom de plume - favourite loco, favourite horse or a Scotsman with Welsh ancestral connections?

Mike

Hi Phil, welcome to the forum. Looking forward to reading more of your memories.

Tony