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« on: October 29, 2024, 11:10:42 »
It starts innocently
https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/how-became-trainspotter-level-crossing-3348214
and then you get sucked into something else.
My trip (pun intended) didn't seem a lot different.

Liked the Cuneo picture which I have not seen before; he did some railway posters and quite a bit of military stuff. The horses being transported looks similar to an image in British Railways in wartime. The Frank Brangwyn poster is extra to the print edition. I presume hump marshalling yards are just history now.

Something for the bicentenary,
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« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2024, 11:29:45 »
Quote from: CyclingSid on October 29, 2024, 11:10:42
It starts innocently
https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/how-became-trainspotter-level-crossing-3348214
and then you get sucked into something else.
My trip (pun intended) didn't seem a lot different.

Not Simon Bradley's first book - see http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=29020.msg185463#msg185463 too.
 
Many of us here have had a lifetime's interest in and involvement with rail / public transport and to some extent "like a drug" I would agree.  And, yes, I have a flavour of that drug and - if you like - addiction.   That is something I prefer to be addicted to than ... alcohol, smoking, gambling ... and perhaps is parallel to golfing, painting, knitting, fishing, reading as addictive (?) hobbies.  ... https://www.magazine.co.uk/the-hub/the-uks-most-popular-hobbies
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