The Kid from the 1990’s.
Hello there
My name is Scott Turner I have lived in the Birmingham area all my life and obviously a fall under the category of railway enthusiast some out there call it a curse or a childhood fascination that you never shook off but these days I call it a blessing.I was maybe not so lucky as the majority of enthusiasts as I was born in 1988 so BR blue a something I do not remember,my era though has been the final years of British Rail and the beginning of privatization.
Being born at this time did mean I had missed out on many great things as a railway enthusiast such as the following statements.
“I’m sorry I cant say I remember D1010 on the china clay”
“What does a roarer sound like ? “
“Where is old oak common ? “
But also I feel lucky as I have met a handful of the younger lot who don’t remember when I trip from Marston green to Birmingham new street involved the slamming of doors on a class 310 or when class 47’s weren’t actually that special and when rail tour’s were more of a blessing than a given.
Over the course of this year this blog will basically be a series of ramblings by yours truly about my memories from around 1990 to 1998 regailing the majority of memories.You are probably wondering why I asm doing considering that there are many people who have their stories from much more interesting times well the answer is these are the only memories I was able to have and it is always great to see the state of play back from someone else’s eyes rather than just your own.
I honestly hope you enjoy this blog in it’s entirity and if there are any criticisms please be gentle im still a novice to this…..
All the best.
Scott Turner.
Tags: Birmingham, Memories., Scott turner, trains
Scott Turner
July 10th, 2009 at 4:19 am
Its all railway. Just wait till 2048 then you see how things never stand still only thing that does is peoples memorys. Welcome to railnuts.
July 10th, 2009 at 7:15 am
Yeah too true Pete every year towards the end of it I always find myself thinking about all the changes I have seen and I always thinking “I didn’t expect any of that”
July 10th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Hi Scot Im only a few years older than you so sectorisation is my era aswel, coming from south wales jaunts to birmingham new street to see the 87s and 90s were always a favorite of mine. I can remember catching the train from cwmbran to newport with a large logo 37 and mk2s before the influx of 155s and if we were lucky there would be a 50 on the cardiff portsmouth, and 37s on all the freight befor the big red GMs took over everything, happy days and then I end up modelling steam in the 50s and 60s.
Any way welcome aboard.
Steve
July 10th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Well Steve n it’s good to know there is more than one of us sectorisation lot out there as I always think to myself that with the railways concerned it was a strange time to be an enthusiast.
I am hopefully going to start modeling myself an my idea is to create Water Orton based around the end of steam.
Cheers for the comment mate.