OT- My name is Emma...

[ukstitch]

No we have 4 children 3 'grown up' boys and 1 younger DD (8) - we are mad!!!!!!

I love steam trains - the smell of them and sounds they make. I could watch them all day.
One of my favourite (non Disney) films is the Railway Children

I also have a great love of them. I was lucky enough a couple of years ago to be able to step onto the footplate and have a look around while the Watercress line train was waiting at the station.

I've also got steam train heritage both in my blood and wear a little on my wrist on a daily basis. Many generations of my family worked on the railways as plate layers from the mid 1800s or so. I now wear my great-grandfathers watch that he received for working 45 years for British Rail.

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

I also have a great love of them. I was lucky enough a couple of years ago to be able to step onto the footplate and have a look around while the Watercress line train was waiting at the station.

I've also got steam train heritage both in my blood and wear a little on my wrist on a daily basis. Many generations of my family worked on the railways as plate layers from the mid 1800s or so. I now wear my great-grandfathers watch that he received for working 45 years for British Rail.

I used to like trains till they stopped arriving on time.

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

I'll be back after 9.30ish there is lots on telly tonight

 

[ukstitch]

I used to like trains till they stopped arriving on time.

When you use the trains daily (as I used to at my previous job), or weekly (as I do when I'm good at visiting my Quaker Meeting in Southampton) then you get used to them being late.

There's one company down here that's really bad for it, although the other 2 are fairly ok.

 

[A Small World]

I also have a great love of them. I was lucky enough a couple of years ago to be able to step onto the footplate and have a look around while the Watercress line train was waiting at the station.

I've also got steam train heritage both in my blood and wear a little on my wrist on a daily basis. Many generations of my family worked on the railways as plate layers from the mid 1800s or so. I now wear my great-grandfathers watch that he received for working 45 years for British Rail.

I would love to drive a steam train and so would DH - I dont care that Id end up covered in black coal.

I bought DH a meal on one one year for his birthday and of course he needed someone to go with him on the trip.
It was lovely - chugging along eating good food and drinking wine

 

[A Small World]

Small World you have to spill...i mean i let everyone in on my secret so its only fair you do the same!!

I'll give you a clue- My secret is nothing like yours

 

[ukstitch]

I would love to drive a steam train and so would DH - I dont care that Id end up covered in black coal.

I bought DH a meal on one one year for his birthday and of course he needed someone to go with him on the trip.
It was lovely - chugging along eating good food and drinking wine

You can actually do that with the Watercress line near us. Unfortunately, it's not a cheap experience to do: It's about £200 for some driving of just the locomotive, or about £350 for some more driving (about 20 miles total) but you get to pull carriages on that one as well.

 

[ukstitch]

Small World you have to spill...i mean i let everyone in on my secret so its only fair you do the same!!

I'm not sure that we count as a secret - I think most people here (certainly the regular posters on this thread) seemed to know before we did

 

[Bolanette87]

My entire family, bar me, are obsessed with trains. My brother has about a million lines of Hornby train track everywhere, and doesn't think twice about spending £200 on a single train for it......

Bob xoxox

 

[ukstitch]

My entire family, bar me, are obsessed with trains. My brother has about a million lines of Hornby train track everywhere, and doesn't think twice about spending £200 on a single train for it......

Bob xoxox

ooh, does he have the live steam ones?

 

[Bolanette87]

ooh, does he have the real steam ones?

TBH, I never look anymore. I don't think he does though. He's got boxes and boxes full of them though.

Bob xoxox

 

[Dianetigger]

(((hugs))) Bob

 

[Dianetigger]

I always wanted a train track when I was little, as soon as I had my kids we got the wooden Brio layout, (still have it in the attic) then my son had an electric train set but he was never really that interested in it, (I was!) he was more into lego which again we still have in the attic.

Diane

 

[Bolanette87]

(((hugs))) Bob

Thanks Hun.

Bob xoxoxox

 

[ukstitch]

TBH, I never look anymore. I don't think he does though. He's got boxes and boxes full of them though.

Bob xoxox

I love the live steam pieces, but they're so expensive - about the £200 mark you mentioned, although you have to then buy special oil and water to put in them.

They're exactly as they sound - the electric bits heat the water, which drives the train.

 

[Bolanette87]

I love the live steam pieces, but they're so expensive - about the £200 mark you mentioned, although you have to then buy special oil and water to put in them.

They're exactly as they sound - the electric bits heat the water, which drives the train.

I think a lot of them are very overpriced for what you get. Oh well, its no different to my Dolls House really.... That costs a bomb to furnish!

Bob xoxox

 

[A Small World]

DH has just gone to get us a Kentucky for tea tonight as I cant be bothered cooking - just cant get going at all today. Im aching and feel yucky.

Theres only 3 of us in - me , DH and DD as the 2 boys who live at home have both gone for a saturday night out (not together tho)

 

[ukstitch]

I think a lot of them are very overpriced for what you get. Oh well, its no different to my Dolls House really.... That costs a bomb to furnish!

Bob xoxox

Or my fish tank - £17 for each of the fish, about £200 in rock, plus ongoing costs like £3 a week for the water. That's not even including the initial cost of the equipment, which is a good number of hundreds of pounds.

I bought things gradually, so I dread to think how much it cost me in total to set up my marine tank But I love it, so the cost doesn't matter to me

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

DH has just gone to get us a Kentucky for tea tonight as I cant be bothered cooking - just cant get going at all today. Im aching and feel yucky.

Theres only 3 of us in - me , DH and DD as the 2 boys who live at home have both gone for a saturday night out (not together tho)

Tell us your secret Small World

 

[Bolanette87]

We've just ordered tandoori for tea...

Bob xoxoxox