General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Ena

In those days I rarely sat down on trains, unless it was dark, or it was raining or very cold, I was hanging out of the windows all the time, but I wasn't daft, I only just peeked me beak out of the window, because I didn't want to get my head ripped off.

I remember Eric Laithwaite in the early 1970s, and the linear motor, unfortunately he ended up of being accused of being a scientific heretic, because of his views about the properties of gyroscopes.

I have a train simulator program, and I have the Woodhead Route on it, and one of the scenario's is the Easter Tommy of 1981, and on the Fcn5 button, which is the view inside the carriages, in the Easter Tommy scenario, they have made that into a train spotter mode, you can hang out of the window in the middle of the train, normally you can only do that from inside the loco cab, but those 76s are hard to drive, especially when driving a double headed one, hauling a coal train up towards Dunford Bridge