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[CAVREADINGRAIL]

Cavreadingrail,

Hello all, I have had a life long interest in rail, mainly western region since I was four when my father took me to see the first BRITS through Reading General station in the mid 1950's. My interests are narrow but deep, in trying to build a collection focussed on on this location up to 1959.

I am also interested in the current development proposals for READING station

[swisstrains]

Hello and welcome to the forum. Hope you enjoy your visits. We have a number of members with an interest in the Reading area.

[locojoe]

Hi Cav welcome to the forum I'm an LNER man myself but it takes all sorts. Good locos Brits, I'm looking forward to hearing some of your GWR related topics.
Cheers Alan Locojoe.

[Arthur Maunsell]

hi cavreadingrail///your name would descibe me quite accurately as I was born and bred in Caversham...a little later than you I think as it was 1968 before I found Platform 5 at Reading General.....so Westerns and Warships would be top of my pops.....have to make do with GM's these days which arent hugely interesting but nice to glimpse now and again....

[Shed Cat]

Welcome, I too am intersted in what they will do to Reading , partly because I have occasionally spent hours stranded there over the last 20 years or so and passed the time wonderinng how to redesign it.

I dont know if I can link to another post within this forum without the server getting confused , but here goes

http://www.railwayforum.net/showthread.php?t=1275

[Trev]

Hi Cav.

I've got fond memories of Reading. I copped 1200 Falcon there in the 70's! AND copped the departmental shunter in the signal works.

Welcome to the forum.

[Arthur Maunsell]

oho..you must be very young because i think of Falcon as D0280... :-)

[Trev]

I'm a spring chicken at half a century Arthur.