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Hello everyone, I love trains.

I typed "railway forum" instead of "rail forum" into Google and found this site! :D

Hope to post here sometime, Cheers. :)

Hello Green Lane and welcome to the Railway Forum. I'm sure you will find a lot in here Steam, Diesel, Electric and Model with all the other things that go to make up a railway. Hope you enjoy the site and post often.

Thanks very much for the welcome! This seems like a friendly site.

This year, I've been travelling by rail on various daytrips around the UK.

Yesterday I travelled on the Ellesmere Port-Helsby parliamentry service, it was very enjoyable albeit somewhat brief.

Deisel, electric or steam I like them all in completely different ways.

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

Welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy it .

Thanks very much for all of your further welcomes, Cheers all! :)

Hi Green Lane, hope you will enjoy what we have here.

Is that Green Lane as in byeway ?

Hi pre65,

My username was initially named after a local railway station on the Merseyrail network, called Green Lane. (Also shown in my avatar). This is one of a handful of suburban stations within walking distance from where I live.

Although it could also refer to a byway too, since my main hobby is hiking. As it happens, I do also tend to walk down a lot of green lanes, in fact some of which are actually called "Green Lane" (unrelated to the above station). Hope that's not too confusing! :D

Regards!

Welcome aboard the forum
John

Welcome. This is one friendly bunch! make yourself at home.
mickey

Thanks both for the welcome - I may even post in another thread shortly! :D

Welcome Green Lane, Post as much as you like, look forward to reading them,
this a good site with good mates. ........enjoy.

48111

Thanks! I did finally make another post. You may know what it's like when you're in work (as I am at the moment - I work in IT), I try to get just a little bit of surfing/posting in, but everytime I do, some pesky job comes up! :D

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welcome to the fourm green lane there are a lot of friendly people here

Thanks redudley for the welcome. I'm finding many of the posts an interesting read so far. Cheers!

hi all,
name is malcolm,i like all things to do with railways..live not far from east lancs railway.used to be a volunteer on the mid week gang.

Hello elphits and welcome to the Railway Forum. Lots of East Lancs members on this forum. Hope you enjoy the site.

Welcome to the Forum Green Lane. Look forward to your posts.

Best wishes,

John H-T.

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

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Thanks for the welcome, John, and welcome to the forum elphits!

"Owdo"...good to have you with us...enjoy.

48111

Hello and Thanks!

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(EDIT: testing the IMG tag - should use the gallery instead I think!)

this is a trial post...hope to build good network with model train enthusiasts.

Cheers,
Carmel

Hello Carmel and welcome to the Railway Forum.

Yes, welcome to the forum Carmel, Cheers! :)

Thanks for the warm welcome guys. I'd like to start a lil conversation by asking a question, how far you've travel by train?

Carmel

Being based in the UK, I probably don't travel anything like as far as people who live in much larger countries.

Saturday just gone I took a day trip from Liverpool to Glasgow. As the crow flies it's about 175 miles each way, or about 350 miles for the round trip. But because the route isn't a straight line it's more like 220 miles each way or about 440 miles round trip. That's probably about the most I would typically travel in a single day.

My total for this year so far is something like a quite modest 2,000 miles.

Typically though I will travel much shorter journeys. For example if I take the train into North Wales (which is local from here) to go hiking it's typically 15 to 25 miles depending on where exactly I'm going.

If I choose to take the train to work, under the river Mersey I think it's only about three miles so very short journey indeed (only on the train about 9 minutes), so in fact I usually get the bus.

Would eventually love to take on some epic train journey like London-Shanghai or something, but alas it's just not possible for me to get away at the moment :D

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Hello Carmel and welcome to the Railway Forum. :)

Hello Carmel. The longest single train trip I dod was from Ndola in Zambia to Cape Town. It took 4 nights and 3 1/2 days. " weeks later I travelled to East London in S Africa, then a week later I returned to Ndola via J'burg. Another 4 nights and 3 days.

thanks for being responsive to the post guys. I had a good time reading your shared story. basically, i travel by train since i was 5. we yearly attend the great train expo across the United States and most of the time cross the Mexico border. just last year, i experienced the Amtrak from Boston down to Washington. It's really fun and great! Now, I'm based on GC Qld, my rail roading isn't that long as before. So I think, my daily train travel would be around 300-700 miles.