What a cosmopolitan bunch we are

QUOTE (BRITHO @ 13 Dec 2007, 16:56) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Does this mean we are erudite and educated or just mad?
It means we are all three at the same time:

QUOTE (Willy Wonka)"A little bit of madness now and then is cherished by the wisest men."

TRAINS ................. TRAINS .......................TRAINS................ ( weird odd high pitched Laugh followed by cackles ) ..... Personally think i definatly fit into the mad catagory. I think im startin early - I have the collection of cats !!!

We are all mad ... Just some more than others.

As for me ... Well ... I'm doing a degree in quantity surveying - Need i say anymore

QUOTE (Madkitten @ 13 Dec 2007, 19:45) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>TRAINS ................. TRAINS .......................TRAINS................ ( weird odd high pitched Laugh followed by cackles ) ..... Personally think i definatly fit into the mad catagory. I think im startin early - I have the collection of cats !!!

Cackling laughter, cats.....................Hmmm, methinks the witching hour is nigh!

QUOTE (Jennings @ 13 Dec 2007, 20:03) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>As for me ... Well ... I'm doing a degree in quantity surveying - Need i say anymore

Probably not.....

I attended a grammar school (single sex) and really suffered for my interests. But, don't forget locomotives taught us geography, royalty, stately homes, history and horseracing, and that's just some of the major classes.

Regards

QUOTE (Robert Stokes @ 14 Dec 2007, 13:54) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>You may be interested in something I read a long time ago that I think is relevant to this discussion. It may have been written by Cyril freezer but I'm not sure. He explained that, about the middle of the last century, if you wanted to get on in your profession you kept secret the fact that you were a railway modeller (I'm not sure why, perhaps you were regarded as too eccentric) which is why so many wrote under pseudoyns such as 'the padre'. He then went on to say that well into the second half of the century the situation actually reversed. It became something to include in your C.V. as it showed that you were someone who was reliable and multi-talented.

Cheers, Robert

Saying that - my husband went for a job with Southern recently and he passed everything with flying colours --- untill they found out he was also involved with railway preservation... Then mysteriously they made all the excuses they could to not employ him. After speaking to a freind of ours we found out they have a name for railway preservationists and Railway Modellers and try not to employ them........... Personally i think its a bit wrong - but what do you do about it !! So it is still happenening!

QUOTE (Madkitten @ 14 Dec 2007, 18:32) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Saying that - my husband went for a job with Southern recently and he passed everything with flying colours --- untill they found out he was also involved with railway preservation... Then mysteriously they made all the excuses they could to not employ him. After speaking to a freind of ours we found out they have a name for railway preservationists and Railway Modellers and try not to employ them...........

Too right - a friend of mine applied to Virgin, and at one of their sessions it was admitted that they didn't want to employ anyone with any existing railway knowledge, that they preferred to employ drivers who extensivly use Gameboys, X-box, Playstations etc and had no mechanical knowledge. Ie if the train breaks, just sit and wait for someone else to sort it - not that there is much else that you can do. He left the course pretty disgusted and now works on the safety side (and has some pretty 'hairy' tales of the Contractors as used by RailTrack!)

David Y

QUOTE (dwb @ 15 Dec 2007, 09:36) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Railway enthusiasts are probably "fair game" as long as their enthusiasm is not classed as a recognised religion, sect or race.

David

Easily sorted, next census we all put down "Railway Enthusiasm" as our religion, if we get 20,000 of our closest friends to do the same we'll have a bonefide religion