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| Lurker Speaks - finally :-) 13/05/2010 at 09:44 #1249 | |
kaiwhara
587 posts |
Gidday, seeing as Ive "hung around" for a few years I suppose it's high time to introduce myself. I am Andrew, 22 years old, long time user of Simsig and Signal Box Controller working for Kiwirail in Auckland New Zealand. I have always had a real passion for Signalling, its concepts and applications, and it's progressive history. This 'curiosity' has been around as long as I remember conciously liking trains, often spending hours at Winchester Station with Mum watching what we used to call "two trains" at least 3 times a week. This usually ended up being 5 or 6 trains at least. While I remember a large amount of what sort of traffic used to pass through regularly, it was actually the signalling that really caught my eye - surprising for a 4 year old! Now slightly older, I well realise that even a station like Winchester is a fairly straight forward setup compared to other installations (While I had passed through Waterloo apparently many times, I have no memory of this station, but do remember the Underground, and parts of the train journey I took with my Dad and Visiting Aunt from New Zealand on an excursion to the Natural History Museum - slammer of some description one way and a brand spanking 442 the other). I still hold a heavy interest in the Railways of Britain (particularly down south), and having grown up observing, then immersed, then employed in a totally different railway environment that has evolved drastically different to what I was used to, I find the comparisons between them fascinating, and also discovering for myself how quite a number of fundimental ideologies between the two railway systems (and no doubt others - I am learning about Australia rapidly) are actually virtually identical despite apparently looking totally unrelated. Put short - it's brilliant! I look forward to indulging in the interesting discussion that takes place here, and the stimulation that Simsig, and it's community provides. Cheers Sorry guys, I am in the business of making people wait! Log in to reply |
| Lurker Speaks - finally :-) 13/05/2010 at 09:44 #9126 | |
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kaiwhara
587 posts |
Gidday, seeing as Ive "hung around" for a few years I suppose it's high time to introduce myself. I am Andrew, 22 years old, long time user of Simsig and Signal Box Controller working for Kiwirail in Auckland New Zealand. I have always had a real passion for Signalling, its concepts and applications, and it's progressive history. This 'curiosity' has been around as long as I remember conciously liking trains, often spending hours at Winchester Station with Mum watching what we used to call "two trains" at least 3 times a week. This usually ended up being 5 or 6 trains at least. While I remember a large amount of what sort of traffic used to pass through regularly, it was actually the signalling that really caught my eye - surprising for a 4 year old! Now slightly older, I well realise that even a station like Winchester is a fairly straight forward setup compared to other installations (While I had passed through Waterloo apparently many times, I have no memory of this station, but do remember the Underground, and parts of the train journey I took with my Dad and Visiting Aunt from New Zealand on an excursion to the Natural History Museum - slammer of some description one way and a brand spanking 442 the other). I still hold a heavy interest in the Railways of Britain (particularly down south), and having grown up observing, then immersed, then employed in a totally different railway environment that has evolved drastically different to what I was used to, I find the comparisons between them fascinating, and also discovering for myself how quite a number of fundimental ideologies between the two railway systems (and no doubt others - I am learning about Australia rapidly) are actually virtually identical despite apparently looking totally unrelated. Put short - it's brilliant! I look forward to indulging in the interesting discussion that takes place here, and the stimulation that Simsig, and it's community provides. Cheers Sorry guys, I am in the business of making people wait! Log in to reply |
| Lurker Speaks - finally :-) 13/05/2010 at 19:23 #9130 | |
spfish
56 posts |
Hi Andrew Good to hear from you and welcome to the forum. Simon Log in to reply |