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Welcome back to the hobby! Always nice to hear of people returning to it after years away from the scene.
For me, I really got hooked in autumn 2003 when I had just started university in Swansea. To this day, I don't know why I went, but I had popped to the station. As a kid I liked trains but wasn't a spotter or owt. Anyway, I watched a HST leave for London and that was it. The noise, the clag and the looks of the magnificent beast grabbed me and I've never looked back.
In 2005 I had for a while considered giving up at the end of the year. Thankfully, almost 4 years since then, I'm still going at it and refuse to give up until I'm too old to get out of the house on my own. Well, I might after the final HST run on the mainline retiring to railtours and such like, but that's a long way off.
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