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« on: December 06, 2008, 17:06:39 »
Please be nice to me, I'm new.

Been reading the board for a while and decided it was time to get involved a bit. I'm a research scientist living in Oxford during the week and use FGW▸ (First Great Western) a fair bit (mainly at weekends) for travelling to and from Bristol and west Wales. I'll confess now that I'm a heritage railway guard and secondman ("Ooh, you get to work with proper trains, locomotives and mk Is" as an FGW senior conductor once said to me with a wistful look in his eye, I must have been travelling on an Adelante) and therefore a bit of a crank  Embarrassed But don't let that put you off...
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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2008, 17:50:58 »
And a very good evening to you too inspector_blakey. Welcome to the forum.
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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2008, 18:44:24 »
Good evening and welcome!
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« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2008, 06:58:03 »
Welcome IB. We all know that the guard is the most important person on the train... don't we?Huh Wink
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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2008, 20:52:33 »
We certainly do - our rulebook still even contains the magic words "the guard is in charge of the train". Just be grateful though that you only have a driver to convince that you're in charge and not a fireman as well... Wink
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