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Title: The World's First Trainspotter Post by: Lee on January 12, 2008, 11:31:50 As the National Railway Museum in York opens a new ^4m visitor centre, it claims a 14-year-old in 1825 as the world's first trainspotter (link below.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7179030.stm Title: Re: The World's First Trainspotter Post by: smokey on January 12, 2008, 11:39:28 I'll get in First, SEE I TOLD YOU, IT WASN'T ME, Vacman!!
Smokey Title: Re: The World's First Trainspotter Post by: vacman on January 12, 2008, 11:57:40 I'll get in First, SEE I TOLD YOU, IT WASN'T ME, Vacman!! Can't have been you smokey, you were about 30 then!!!! ;)Smokey Title: Re: The World's First Trainspotter Post by: smokey on January 13, 2008, 13:49:34 Well somedays I wish I'd been around in the 19th C, at least in them days Rail was the way forward.
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