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Girls and beer have never taken over me, as I am a female teetotalist lol. I was born into a life of railways, steam especially and rail events. My Dad saved 6024 from Barry and when I was growing up we would venture up to Quainton most weekends during the Summer Holidays to see the Kings rebuild coming on. Then while me and my brother were small we were taken to all the Railway events around the country with my Dad and his bookstall. Then we would spend the day making friends with the other kids. That's when I discovered Deltics......mmmmm Deltics!!! To us it was just a way to have fun, playing on the locos, I remember all the Steam weekends on Salisbury Station, they were great, but kept losing my little brother. Found him on the footplate of Sir Nigel Gresley telling people what everything did. He was only 7 lol. It sorta took hold from there. Found him at Coalville having a picnic with a random family in a coal truck, my Mum went nuts when he eventually came back to the stall. God only knows how we got away with it really, anything could have happened. I have so many memories of those days at the different Railway sites that it has never left me. Now it's me dragging my Dad and boyfriend around the country to go "trainspotting".
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