So, what got you interested in railways?

[Sentinel]

Originally Posted by Maggie

Hi I am new to the forum and would like to share my passion for steam engines and the railway. I have had the privelidge of meeting a talented watercolour artist Richard Vessey. His works capture the age of steam and the railway world. Here are his paintings. My love for steam was as a little girl in Skipton where I could stand near the line and look over the wall and watch the train fill with water. I can remeber travelling there on the steam trains and all the yellow prcelain in the loos.
There are more of Richards works on the website http://www.wix.com/TheMacGallery/the-mac-gallery
Thanks Maggie

What lovely paintings. He has a gift.

[Sentinel]

What got me interested in railways? sadly, my dear father passed away. I found solace in collecting old railway photos/topographical postcards. (All with a family collection.)
They're like 'windows on the past'.

Memories...

[saxokid]

Clockwork Hornby 00 Gauge trainset started me off at the age of 4 years

So that is where it started for me

[Ken WSRfan]

Originally Posted by saxokid

Clockwork Hornby 00 Gauge trainset started me off at the age of 4 years

So that is where it started for me

I used to love my old clockwork set. Good times.

[Master Cutler]

I first got interested in railways when I was a three year old in 1960 and my grandfather used to take me for walks to see the Dyserth Quarry branch line locomotives working the stone traffic between Prestatyn and Dyserth.
I have vague memories of seeing 45156 Ayrshire Yeomanry working the branch several times in the early 60's.
At that time quite a few of my elder relatives were working on the railways.
These days though, it's my eldest daughter who works on the railways as an operations manager for a national rail company.

[n4cus]

Probably my earliest memory was of being taken to look at trains by my father in my really young days, I was hooked.
As a young person I was obsessed with Steam locomotives and the railways in general, Music and Sport, I am now nearly 64 and my interests are still the same,I have other pastimes but have retained my love of railways from childhood 1948 onwards.

[exiled mackem]

weekend trips to my aunt/uncle's caravan at a site near Durham. My bed next to the vans' front window gave me a panoramic view of the ECML - about two miles distant between Chester le Street and Durham. I'd watch (and listen) to deltic hauled sleeper trains (discernable only by the faint lights of the coaches) picking their way through the landscape into the small hours...

[pbowler]

Originally Posted by Trev

We've all been through it, the fascination with steel wheels on steel rails. The interest might fade a bit as girls and beer take their hold in our teens, but we all came back to the hobby. We must've done, or you wouldn't be reading this!

So, what was it that got you interested in railways?

I dont know what got me interested in railways but Ive been interested since I was about 9 or 10, Im 64 now. Your right about girls and beer, Ive lost a bit of interest in those but Ive never lost any interest in railways.

[Christopher Dent]

I lived near Doncaster/Sheffield/Leeeds east coast main about 2 miles south of York and had to cross a railway bridge to go to school which was by the lines and Dringhouses sidings. I was well places to take the numbers and before the end of the first year had visited Doncaster plant for the centenary. In April it will be 50 yrs since This started. 243 sheds visited by the end of steam.

[Talyllyn]

Like many other people from my generation it would be Thomas the Tank Engine/The Railway Series!