THE RAILWAY AGE CREWE IS TOO CLOSE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND ALL
ASSETS ARE TO BE SOLD OFF

INCLUDES APT CLASS 47 ETC

maxinecarrsoham@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> THE RAILWAY AGE CREWE IS TOO CLOSE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND ALL
> ASSETS ARE TO BE SOLD OFF
>
> INCLUDES APT CLASS 47 ETC


And the news source that this has come from would be?

maxinecarrsoham@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

> THE RAILWAY AGE CREWE IS TOO CLOSE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND ALL
> ASSETS ARE TO BE SOLD OFF
> 
> INCLUDES APT CLASS 47 ETC



Too close to what?

PhilD

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PhilD wrote:

> maxinecarrsoham@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> > THE RAILWAY AGE CREWE IS TOO CLOSE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND ALL
> > ASSETS ARE TO BE SOLD OFF
>
> Too close to what?
>


Too close to the WCML by all accounts.  The APT is all depressed when
it sees the Pendolinos "racing" past, and keeps thinking about the
train it could have been.

Apparantly, the mood that it is in at the moment is scaring all the
customers away, and hence profits are down.

:)

"M J Forbes"  wrote in message 
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>
> PhilD wrote:
>> maxinecarrsoham@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>> > THE RAILWAY AGE CREWE IS TOO CLOSE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND ALL
>> > ASSETS ARE TO BE SOLD OFF
>>
>> Too close to what?
>>
>
> Too close to the WCML by all accounts.  The APT is all depressed when
> it sees the Pendolinos "racing" past, and keeps thinking about the
> train it could have been.
>
> Apparantly, the mood that it is in at the moment is scaring all the
> customers away, and hence profits are down.
>
> :)



The place always looks closed whenever I go past it.  Has it been open to 
visitors recently?

Chris...

"Chris Pelling"  wrote in message 
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> "M J Forbes"  wrote in message 
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>>
>> PhilD wrote:
>>> maxinecarrsoham@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>>> > THE RAILWAY AGE CREWE IS TOO CLOSE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND ALL
>>> > ASSETS ARE TO BE SOLD OFF
>
> The place always looks closed whenever I go past it.  Has it been open to 
> visitors recently?


Thinking of places like that closing and selling off their assets, what 
happened to the locos etc at Steamtown in Carnforth and to the locos, trams, 
buses and cars at Transperience in Bradford?

I was lucky to visit both of those soon before they closed: I began to 
wonder whether my visit and the closure were related ;-)

With decent financial support, Transperience could have been very good. They 
needed Low Moor station to reopen to make it easy to get there: it's too far 
to walk from Bradford city centre and I never found details of buses, so I 
had to drive there. They had a fair amount of spare land to allow room for 
growth. Maybe to some extent it was seen as a poor man's Crich tram museum. 
I wonder if the trams were moved to Crich after Transperience closed.

"Martin Underwood"  wrote in message 
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> "Chris Pelling"  wrote in message 
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>>
>> "M J Forbes"  wrote in message 
>> news:1127218478.369207.147730@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>> PhilD wrote:
>>>> maxinecarrsoham@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>>>> > THE RAILWAY AGE CREWE IS TOO CLOSE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND ALL
>>>> > ASSETS ARE TO BE SOLD OFF
>>
>> The place always looks closed whenever I go past it.  Has it been open to 
>> visitors recently?
>
> Thinking of places like that closing and selling off their assets, what 
> happened to the locos etc at Steamtown in Carnforth and to the locos, 
> trams, buses and cars at Transperience in Bradford?
>
> I was lucky to visit both of those soon before they closed:

Steamtown did not close. It ceased to be a museum and is now a working depot 
for West Coast Railway Company, surely a good thing.


Peter Fox

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> THE RAILWAY AGE CREWE IS TOO CLOSE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND ALL
> ASSETS ARE TO BE SOLD OFF
>
> INCLUDES APT CLASS 47 ETC
>


The Exeter West signal box owners/operators, based at the Railway Age, have
stated that this is an unfounded rumour and the Railway Age will be opening
as usual at Easter 2006

John.

"Peter Fox"  wrote in message 
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>
> "Martin Underwood"  wrote in message 
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>> Thinking of places like that closing and selling off their assets, what 
>> happened to the locos etc at Steamtown in Carnforth and to the locos, 
>> trams, buses and cars at Transperience in Bradford?
>>
>> I was lucky to visit both of those soon before they closed:

> Steamtown did not close. It ceased to be a museum and is now a working 
> depot for West Coast Railway Company, surely a good thing.


Sorry. I should have been more precise. I did know that it had only closed 
to the public as a museum, and had not closed totally. What happened to the 
museum exhibits?

"John Whitaker"  wrote in message 
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>
>  wrote in message
> news:1127211515.890978.314680@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>> THE RAILWAY AGE CREWE IS TOO CLOSE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND ALL
>> ASSETS ARE TO BE SOLD OFF
>>
>> INCLUDES APT CLASS 47 ETC
>>
>
> The Exeter West signal box owners/operators, based at the Railway Age, 
> have
> stated that this is an unfounded rumour and the Railway Age will be 
> opening
> as usual at Easter 2006


I've just emailed the contact address info@therailwayage.co.uk alerting them 
to this unfounded rumour and suggesting that they put a clarification 
statement on the web site http://www.therailwayage.co.uk/

Moral: never trust anything that's written all in capitals, especially when 
it comes from someone with a very dodgy email address!

"Martin Underwood"  wrote in message 
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> "John Whitaker"  wrote in message 
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>>
>>  wrote in message
>> news:1127211515.890978.314680@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>>> THE RAILWAY AGE CREWE IS TOO CLOSE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND ALL
>>> ASSETS ARE TO BE SOLD OFF
>>>
>>> INCLUDES APT CLASS 47 ETC
>>>
>>
>> The Exeter West signal box owners/operators, based at the Railway Age, 
>> have
>> stated that this is an unfounded rumour and the Railway Age will be 
>> opening
>> as usual at Easter 2006
>
> I've just emailed the contact address info@therailwayage.co.uk alerting 
> them to this unfounded rumour and suggesting that they put a clarification 
> statement on the web site http://www.therailwayage.co.uk/
>
> Moral: never trust anything that's written all in capitals, especially 
> when it comes from someone with a very dodgy email address!


Can't find any kind of clarification on the website

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:14:50 +0100, "Martin Underwood" 
wrote:


>
>Moral: never trust anything that's written all in capitals, especially when 
>it comes from someone with a very dodgy email address! 


I recently had an email telling me I'd been selected (on the advice of
my country's chamber of commerce) to receive a contract to build a
railway in Togo :-)

-- 
Arthur Figgis                Surrey, UK

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> "Martin Underwood"  wrote in message 
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>> "John Whitaker"  wrote in message 
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>>>
>>>  wrote in message
>>> news:1127211515.890978.314680@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>>>> THE RAILWAY AGE CREWE IS TOO CLOSE AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER AND ALL
>>>> ASSETS ARE TO BE SOLD OFF
>>>>
>>>> INCLUDES APT CLASS 47 ETC
>>>>
>>>
>>> The Exeter West signal box owners/operators, based at the Railway Age, 
>>> have
>>> stated that this is an unfounded rumour and the Railway Age will be 
>>> opening
>>> as usual at Easter 2006
>>
>> I've just emailed the contact address info@therailwayage.co.uk alerting 
>> them to this unfounded rumour and suggesting that they put a 
>> clarification statement on the web site http://www.therailwayage.co.uk/
>>
>> Moral: never trust anything that's written all in capitals, especially 
>> when it comes from someone with a very dodgy email address!
>
> Can't find any kind of clarification on the website


I have just checked the website and I see Sunday is the last day for this 
year.
No mention that I can see of an admission price, anyone know?

KW

Capture Boy wrote:


> >
> > I've just emailed the contact address info@therailwayage.co.uk alerting
> > them to this unfounded rumour and suggesting that they put a clarification
> > statement on the web site http://www.therailwayage.co.uk/
> >
> > Moral: never trust anything that's written all in capitals, especially
> > when it comes from someone with a very dodgy email address!
>
> Can't find any kind of clarification on the website


Can't find much of anything on the website to be honest. It certainly
doesn't encourage me to visit.

-- 
Malc

Arthur Figgis wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:14:50 +0100, "Martin Underwood" 
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Moral: never trust anything that's written all in capitals, especially when
> >it comes from someone with a very dodgy email address!
>
> I recently had an email telling me I'd been selected (on the advice of
> my country's chamber of commerce) to receive a contract to build a
> railway in Togo :-)


Cool, when do you start ?

Arthur Figgis wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:14:50 +0100, "Martin Underwood" 
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Moral: never trust anything that's written all in capitals, especially when
> >it comes from someone with a very dodgy email address!
>
> I recently had an email telling me I'd been selected (on the advice of
> my country's chamber of commerce) to receive a contract to build a
> railway in Togo :-)


Cool, when do you start ?

Arthur Figgis wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:14:50 +0100, "Martin Underwood" 
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Moral: never trust anything that's written all in capitals, especially when
> >it comes from someone with a very dodgy email address!
>
> I recently had an email telling me I'd been selected (on the advice of
> my country's chamber of commerce) to receive a contract to build a
> railway in Togo :-)


Cool, when do you start ?

Arthur Figgis wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:14:50 +0100, "Martin Underwood" 
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Moral: never trust anything that's written all in capitals, especially when
> >it comes from someone with a very dodgy email address!
>
> I recently had an email telling me I'd been selected (on the advice of
> my country's chamber of commerce) to receive a contract to build a
> railway in Togo :-)


Cool, when do you start ?

"Dave Babb"  wrote in message
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>
> Arthur Figgis wrote:
> >
> > I recently had an email telling me I'd been selected (on the advice of
> > my country's chamber of commerce) to receive a contract to build a
> > railway in Togo :-)
>
> Cool, when do you start ?
>

I thought Togo was hot. ;-)

Peter

"John Whitaker"  wrote in message
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>
> I've just received confirmation from Rob Latham, of the Railway Age, that
it
> will indeed be open again in 2006, though the precise date has yet to be
> determined.


I'd never actually realised until this thread that it was seasonal, like a
preserved railway. I'd always assumed that, being a museum, in effect, it
would be open all year round! I would have thought that, with good
advertising, it would be possible to cover the running costs of a skeleton
staff over the winter. Other railway museums seem to manage it.

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:29:32 +0100, Arthur Figgis 
wrote:


>On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:14:50 +0100, "Martin Underwood" 
>wrote:
>
>>
>>Moral: never trust anything that's written all in capitals, especially when 
>>it comes from someone with a very dodgy email address! 
>
>I recently had an email telling me I'd been selected (on the advice of
>my country's chamber of commerce) to receive a contract to build a
>railway in Togo :-)


Ah!  Togo or not Togo, that is the question.  I guess you'll decide not to
go to Togo.
-- 
Tessy @ nospam.com
Life is complex: it has real and imaginary parts

On 21 Sep 2005 01:43:40 -0700, "Dave Babb"
 wrote:


>
>Arthur Figgis wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:14:50 +0100, "Martin Underwood" 
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Moral: never trust anything that's written all in capitals, especially when
>> >it comes from someone with a very dodgy email address!
>>
>> I recently had an email telling me I'd been selected (on the advice of
>> my country's chamber of commerce) to receive a contract to build a
>> railway in Togo :-)
>
>Cool, when do you start ?


As soon as I supply them with a small upfront payment, I expect. :-)
-- 
Arthur Figgis                Surrey, UK

maxinecarrsoham@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
[snipped]

The original post appears to have been removed from Google Groups: I
wonder why...?


Neil Sunderland
-- 
Braunton, Devon
Please observe the Reply-To address.

NP: China Crisis - Wishful Thinking

M J Forbes wrote:

> Too close to the WCML by all accounts.  The APT is all depressed when
> it sees the Pendolinos "racing" past, and keeps thinking about the
> train it could have been.
>
> Apparantly, the mood that it is in at the moment is scaring all the
> customers away, and hence profits are down.
>
> :)


ROFL!!
That really could be true!

As Peter Pendolino rushed by with a "parp parp", and Thomas went past
on the slow lines with a "peep peep", Andrew APT felt grumpy and went
into a sulk, trying to scare off the few people who came near for some
fun. Very few people visited him these days. They all seemed to go to
this place called York. Andrew wondered if he could be attached to
Peter one day, and maybe Peter would take him to this York place too,
where people would come in their thousands and marvel at him. He could
be a great engine again there. He could be loved again there!

He asked Peter one day, as he was stopped at a signal nearby, if Peter
would take him to York. Peter was very cruel and said that he was old
and past it, and no-one would be interested. Besides, York already had
an APT of their very own, so Andrew was not quite simply not wanted.
With that, the signal cleared, and Peter tilted off into the distance,
leaving poor old, run down Andrew in a very bad mood and sulking to
himself...
"Never mind!" said the watery controller. "We *will* be open again next
year, and people will come again and marvel at you then. Have a good
winter!"

The Railway Age will reopen at Easter 2006. That's from the man himself.

John.

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:56:52, "John Whitaker"
 wrote:


>The Railway Age will reopen at Easter 2006. That's from the man himself.


Sadly, without Tiddles.  :-(

http://www.therailwayage.co.uk/tiddles.htm

Paul Harley

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"Phil Holbourn"  wrote in message 
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>
> M J Forbes wrote:
>> Too close to the WCML by all accounts.  The APT is all depressed when
>> it sees the Pendolinos "racing" past, and keeps thinking about the
>> train it could have been.
>>
>> Apparantly, the mood that it is in at the moment is scaring all the
>> customers away, and hence profits are down.
>>
>> :)
>
> ROFL!!
> That really could be true!
>
> As Peter Pendolino rushed by with a "parp parp", and Thomas went past
> on the slow lines with a "peep peep", Andrew APT felt grumpy and went
> into a sulk, trying to scare off the few people who came near for some
> fun. Very few people visited him these days. They all seemed to go to
> this place called York. Andrew wondered if he could be attached to
> Peter one day, and maybe Peter would take him to this York place too,
> where people would come in their thousands and marvel at him. He could
> be a great engine again there. He could be loved again there!
>
> He asked Peter one day, as he was stopped at a signal nearby, if Peter
> would take him to York. Peter was very cruel and said that he was old
> and past it, and no-one would be interested. Besides, York already had
> an APT of their very own, so Andrew was not quite simply not wanted.
> With that, the signal cleared, and Peter tilted off into the distance,
> leaving poor old, run down Andrew in a very bad mood and sulking to
> himself...
> "Never mind!" said the watery controller. "We *will* be open again next
> year, and people will come again and marvel at you then. Have a good
> winter!"
>


I don't know about anybody else but I definately am looking forward to the 
next instalment :-)


Ritch