Be warned, my sister has infiltrated this group!!!!!!

[laalratty]

Be very wary of any postings by riveresk cos I have strong suspistion that this is my sister Kathryn! River Esk is her favorite engine at Ravenglass, (mine is Northern Rock but I think its best that this engine keeps a low profile untill something good happens regarding a certain north eastern bank!)

[Matt]

A while back, my brother jono, who hates trains, got an account with this forum, and began posting silly posts in the introduction section. However, he got bored after 5 mins, and hasn't come back on since.

[laalratty]

Ah well, at least my sister dosn't hate them, in fact she said she quite enjoyed driving millie and caradoc, and she has had footplate rides at Ravenglass

[ACLR]

we will keep an eye out for spam postings

[Matt]

Thats a good thing to have a family member that's also into trains. None of my family is in to trains , but my parents do encourage me from time to time.

This is my 200th post. Yeah !

[ACLR]

congrats on the 200th Matt

[Matt]

Thank you .

[laalratty]

Well done on 200 postings it was always obvious I was going to be into railways, both mum and dad were volunteers at Ravenglass and dad still is. riveresk has just sent me an email saying that she would not do anything as immature as send in silly posts

[Matt]

Wow! All three of my brothers are annoying, anti-railway, and either support Newcastle or Manchester United.

[laalratty]

Ah yes, I do quite like Manchester United, but I like railways more, to the extent that when I had to do my A level geography coursework, I managed to persuade my friends to do the River Mite, I said it would be an easy river the measure, of course my main objective was to get up to see my favorite railway (sorry SillyBilly, the Ffestiniog has to come second for this one)

[Matt]

I use to go up to the Ratty quite a lot when I lived in Cumbria, but since I now live in Durham, it's not so easy. However, I'm still remaining a member of the socity, so when I move back to cumbria in a few years time, I can go volenterring again.

Laalratty, have you met some called Gwyn Merphet up on the Ratty? He's the station Master at Irton Road station.

[laalratty]

No I havn't, im afraid I don't get up as much as I would really like. If you are going to come any time this year, theres a gala over may day bank holiday, only confirmed visitor is ex Fairbourne Sian, but there will be something from the bure valley, and something from Romney

[Matt]

oh yeah, I read about the gala in the Ratty magazine. I'm not to sure if I'll be able to make it, but if it's on about the same time as my trip to the isle of man, I might be able to make my dad make a little detour .

[laalratty]

I think il'l be there on the saturday cos its ptlrcecils big steam up on the sunday

[mhlr]

I think il'l be there on the saturday cos its ptlrcecils big steam up on the sunday

Ahhh, I wish I was further t'up north!

[SillyBilly]

Aaaah, why does everone put galas on over the same weekend, I'd love to go to the Ratty Gala and Simon's steam up.

[Matt]

Yeah. Aparently, garden railways is a very popular hooby in the north of england. An interesting fact that I've found out from my grandparents is that when they were my age, there were two 7 1/4 inch gauge railways in the village run by two men (sadly, both lines are long since gone )

[riveresk]

It certainly seems to be a rather rampant hobby in my hometown, lol.

[ACLR]

weplan to visit the laalratty when were over the in march

[ptlrcecil]

I think il'l be there on the saturday cos its ptlrcecils big steam up on the sunday

Ahhh, I wish I was further t'up north!

Weve got a spare bed for the night going if you do fancy a weekend in the land of the free, the home of the brave, wait sorry thats scotland. Here its land of the beer drinking train spotters.