The purpose of this site is to share memories of particularly spectacularly great days (or spectacularly not so great days!), or indeed moments.
This page in some ways provided the motivation for the whole site, as I decided that sitting around in pubs and getting more and more wound up about what happened in our misspent youth ("you remember when......"), must be gotten out of our systems and therefore lets put up a website.
By the way the consumption of alcohol, particularly real ale, assists greatly in viewing things that happened a long time ago in a positive light. If you haven't tried it perhaps you should........
This page is likely to feature contributions by myself, people I know and people I don't know. I will be more than pleased to receive interesting stories from other bashers. Criteria should be either that they were very unusual events or that somehow they capture a particularly poignant moment. Obviously they should be railway related and dated 1974-1985.
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25's At Copy Pit |
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40035 In The Snow At Hampton In Arden |
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40044 Departing Stoke-On-Trent |
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40's Leaving Kidsgove |
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York-Darlington And Back With Deltics |
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Birmingham-York Excursions Via Stockport |
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Six Class 20's In One Day |
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24081 Going To Euston |
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40142 leaving Glasgow Queen Street |
I am indebted to various bashers who have kindly sent in some of their own experiences.
Paul Loynes Memories Of The Westerns - Hellfire!
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Phil Durrell Describes a "Typical" Weekends 40 Bashing - NEW
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Here is a a contribution from Adrian Wetton, an ex-wizzo man from Exeter:-
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A short story from Ian Goodwin, also known as "Peng".
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This group are all from Michael Wright's own site which is dedicated to the wonders of Scottish Rovers.....those were the days!
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And now to prove that their is no sexism on this site, a contribution from a lady called Emma-Jane Arkady, its not really bashing but it does include a poem!
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