tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32712788400278155812024-03-13T10:17:31.047-07:00robertatforsytherobertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.comBlogger245125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-18396859555205308352024-02-04T03:44:00.000-08:002024-02-04T09:51:37.778-08:00Robert Forsythe Bibliography<p> <span color="var(--primary-text)" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 700;">Robert Forsythe </span></p><p><span color="var(--primary-text)" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></p><p><span color="var(--primary-text)" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 700;">Full Bibliography</span></p><div class="xjm9jq1 xh8yej3 x14nfmen xw7yly9 x1e56ztr" style="animation-name: none; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 16px; transition-property: none; width: 700px;"></div><div class="x1iyjqo2 x78zum5 xdt5ytf x1qjc9v5 xh8yej3 x13faqbe" style="align-items: stretch; animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve; width: 700px; word-break: break-word;"><div style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x676frb x1lkfr7t x1lbecb7 xo1l8bm xzsf02u" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.1765; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; word-break: break-word;"><div class="_8emu" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">This has been extracted from </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forsythe.demon.co.uk%2Fbibliography_complete.htm%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2_lA-5AujGCg5ZOyaa1gk6l4xKqBUQZV1W1fkArqVyUm59rAyXr6Kxbfs&h=AT02iyeNbqLzQCI_DVXcKURxz7EjU6u9CCCPmSkQ4eMK8yfrgt12wul4MTgWt44ilGzhItjQX-KpPLDj4jTd_iLy0TkTKVbWtktcQKtbFG6x-GGNln_qF7TDYqnFrg7KPtFUOrwkq2N2ni0NI88tvswCsijgEtT8" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; animation-name: none; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">www.forsythe.demon.co.uk/bibliography_complete.htm</span></a><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> which is defunct. Not all the links will be functional.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">ROBERT NEILL FORSYTHE - Complete Bibliography</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Contents: </span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Published full manuscripts Published magazine articles Some unpublished full manuscripts</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Media Commissions Other commissions Key exhibition work Photographic work</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> </span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">The first printed acknowledgement to R. N. Forsythe was for assistance with </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Can Bus Replace Train?</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> This was published by the Railway Invigoration Society in 1977.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Published full manuscripts:</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> </span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Lambley</span></i><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> Viaduct</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">joint with Charles Blackett-Ord. Published by the North Pennines Heritage Trust, Nenthead, 1998. ISBN 09513535 5 1.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Reviewed in Tyne and Tweed No. 53 1998/99, British Railway Modelling January 1999, Industrial Railway Society Bulletin 667 March 1999, Railway Magazine June 1999, Industrial Archaeology Review November 1999.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">W. H. Auden: Pennine Poet</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> -</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> joint with Alan Myers, published by the North Pennines Heritage Trust, Nenthead, 1999. ISBN 09513535 78.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Reviewed in the Hexham Courant 25.6.99, Newcastle Journal 8.7.99, North Pennine Heritage Summer 1999, Cumberland & Westmorland Herald 21.8.99, Cumberland News 25.8.99, mining-history@mailbase.co.uk 8.9.99, Archive Issue 23 September 1999, Newsletter of The Northern Mine Research Society 8.99, The Northumbrian August/September 1999, Durham Town and Country Autumn 1999, Northern Review September 1999, Gay Times October 1999, Industrial Archaeology Review May 2000, Yorkshire Geological Society online review at </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fearth.leeds.ac.uk%2Fygs%2Fmembers%2Freviews%2Fbooks487.htm%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2hCEUVb_ZgiC4zs1UK_02oJtMi1I1HCYB4kUCMhDL7B_PsukIYsJXRvRg&h=AT2Zic1teqywC37-Br2BUEY6n0W1s-sGLE8g0BP4XT1C0pGYG2F4bFt4FRLw653CvgKsER9fN8uhlRy271ZGEi7Su2IQ2VZnvcERMJ9aunazFqjxfsBHhnF0YSEFg1EsGnvuIty2lZkuZpMzBNTXy1L2XFUHnBBd" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; animation-name: none; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">http://earth.leeds.ac.uk/ygs/members/reviews/books487.htm</span></a><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> , The Bonny Moor Hen No. 11, 2000.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">To Western Scottish Waters</span></i></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> - Published by Tempus Publishing, Stroud, 14th March 2000. ISBN 0 7524 1719 3. Hardback out of print by November 2000. Paperback edition ISBN 0 7524 2104 2 published November 2000. Revised paperback edition published by Amberley Publishing Stroud 8th February 2010 ISBN 9781 84868 505 5.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Reviewed in Model Railway Express-Mag. Heritage Railway May 2000, Shipping Today and Yesterday May 2000, Model Railway Collector June 2000, Archive June 2000, Maritime Journal June 2000, Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society June 2000, British Railway Modelling July 2000, Best of British July 2000 (lead feature), Backtrack July 2000, Paperchase July 2000, Ships Monthly August 2000, Railway Modeller August 2000, Heritage Scotland (NTS) Autumn 2000 Hardback, Spring 2001 Paperback, The Scots Magazine September 2000, Railway Magazine May 2001, Shipping Today and Yesterday January 2011, The Scots Magazine January 2011. Undiscovered Scotland February 2011. Railway & Canal Historical Society Journal March 2011.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">A History Of Locomotive Kits Volume One</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">: K's, Nu-cast, Wills, South Eastern Finecast -</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> Published jointly by Amlor Publishing, London, and British Railway Modelling, Bourne, 24th March 2000. ISBN 0 9537720 0 4.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Reviewed in Model Railway Express-Mag, Heritage Railway June 2000, British Railway Modelling July 2000, Diecast Collector September 2000, Train Collector's Society News September 2000, Modelrail December 2000.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Irish Sea Shipping Publicised</span></i></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> - Published Tempus Publishing, Stroud, July 2002, Paperback ISBN No. 07524 2355 X.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Reviewed in: Cruising Monthly September 2002, Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society October 2002, British Railway Modelling November 2002, Diecast Collector December 2002, Backtrack December 2002, </span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Five Foot Three (Magazine of the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland) Winter 2003/2003, Steam Railway January 2003, The Paperchase January 2003, Ships Monthly Book of the Month April 2003, Shipping Today and Yesterday April 2003. Journal of the Transport Ticket Society June 2003.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Cumbrian Railway Photographer</span></i></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> - joint by Kate Robinson and Robert Forsythe, published by Oakwood Press, Usk, 19th September 2002, ISBN 0 85361 592 6 concerning the Nash Collection. Price £9.95.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Reviewed on/in Paul Braithwaite's BBC Radio Cumbria morning show 8th October 2002 and Border TV's Look Around programme 17th October 2002; Railnews November 2002; The Cumberland News 1st November 2002; The Cumberland and Westmorland Herald 19th November 2002; Steam Railway November 2002; The Railway Observer January 2003; Backtrack February 2003; Friends of the National Railway Museum Newsletter Spring 2003; Railway Magazine July 2003; The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway Magazine Spring 2004.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Taken by Trains: The Life and Photography of William Nash 1909-1952</span></i></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">- joint by Kate Robinson and Robert Forsythe, published by Oakwood Press, Usk, 23rd March 2004, ISBN 0 85361 619 1 concerning the Nash Collection. Price £13.95.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Reviewed in The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway Magazine Spring 2004; the Permanent Way Institution Journal & Report of Proceedings June 2004; Modelrail July 2004; The Railway Observer September 2004; Festiniog Railway Magazine Autumn 2004; Stephenson Locomotive Society Journal September/October 2004; Friends of the National Railway Museum Newsletter Autumn 2004; This England Spring 2005.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">From Tilbury to Tyneside: Eastern Region Railway Shipping Publicised</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">- Published Tempus Publishing, Stroud, November 2006, Paperback, ISBN 0 7524 3882 4. Price £18.99.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Reviewed in Cruising Monthly February 2007, Hexham Courant 23rd February 2007, Best of British March 2007, Sea Breezes April 2007, Ships Monthly</span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> </span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">April 2007, National Railway Museum Review Spring 2007, Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society November 2007. 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Please enquire. In fact by 2011 much of the work commissioned by the Kit Exchange (see below) had either appeared in Volume One or as features in various periodicals as under. Anyone who wants to publish a second volume, can come forward.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">British Railway Timetables 1948-1997</span></i></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">. 12 chapters and not the same as the synopsis for the BR publicity book. This book is now completed: 70,000 words and 410 scans. Publisher to be <a href="https://timetableworld.com">timetableworld.com </a> .</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Published magazine articles:</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Periodical publishers should note that I do not work speculatively. All materials will be supplied to commission. A minimum word rate of £100/1000 will be applied. Sometimes there has been confusion about this in the past and I would want potential clients to know that I am not a vanity author and that I work to professionally recognised word rates. </span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> </span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Antique Collecting - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">February 1997: Railway Ephemera.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Backtrack - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">May-June 1993: History Through Publicity (Guest editorial by Fiona Forsythe). May-June 1994: The Onset of the DMU seen in its publicity. June 1995: The Revolution in British Railways Freight and its publicity. August 1996 (10th anniversary issue): Pullman Publicity in BR Days. April 1997: Windermere Its Railway Steamers and their Publicity. February 1998: Eastern Estuarial Ferries. April 1998: New Electrics and New Euston. August 2003: Auden on Railways. May 2004: The BMU. April 2005:The Railways of Royal Ordnance Bishopton.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Between the Lines: The magazine of the Weardale Railway Society</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> - August 2010: The Weardale Coach.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">British Railway Modelling -</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> December 1993: Catalogues - Eyeopeners to Model Railway History. April 1994: The Boston Collection; Model Rail 94. March 1995: Modelling the B12/3. August 1995: W&H.; March 1996: Terence Cuneo (Obituary). May 1996: Index to Volume 3. October 1996: Bachmann's SR Queen Mary Brakevans. November 1996: Hornby's 40th Anniversary GWR 'Toad' Brake. December 1996: Patience Pays, The Hornby 1996 Mark One Coach Range; Netsurfing and Model Railways. April 1997: Hornby Alive and Kicking!; Index to Volume 4. June 1997: Bachmann - hard to beat. September 1997: Locomotive Profile: Class 21/29; December 1997: Locomotive Profile: Pioneering Pair (LMS 10000 and 10001). April 1998: British Model Trains Catalogue; The Class 37s - A Modellers Guide (Reviews). June1998: Leighton Trains Lima Guide 1998 edition; Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway. An Irish Railway Pictorial (Reviews). November 1998: Locomotive Profile: Type 2s from the twilight zone. December 1998: Marklin British Outline Locomotives. March 1999: Tri-ang Hornby: The Story of Rovex, Volume 2 1965-1971 (Review). June 1999: Let's Stick Together (Review). May 2000: Bizarre British Jouef.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Buses Extra - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">April-May 1987: Weardale Motor Services.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Canal and Riverboat - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">September 1993: Wear Sensation.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Christie's South Kensington - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Press Release text The Bianco Hornby-Dublo Reference Collection 24/25th October 1996.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Classic British Railway Modelling - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">January 2001: </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Rocket</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Collections - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">February 2001: Bus Fare. March 2001: Thin end of the Wedge. April 2001: Chunnel Collectables. May 2001: Full steam ahead (Airfix).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Collector's Gazette</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> - January 2014: Tri-ang Battlespace. May 2014:Bulleid Coaches. July 2014: Cattle Class.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Cumbria Transport Society Newsletter -</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> July 2002: Pennine Travelogue (Newcastle-Keswick by Wright's bus) Part 1. August 2002: Pennine Travelogue (Newcastle-Keswick by Wright's bus) Part 2. September 2002: Pennine Travelogue (Newcastle-Keswick by Wright's bus) Part 3. October 2002: Pennine Travelogue (Newcastle-Keswick by Wright's bus) Postscript. December 2002: The Weardale Queen Marys and Corgi. May 2003: Recording a day of AD122 , continued in June-September 2003.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Diecast Collector - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">November 1997 (launch issue): Full of Eastern Promise (EFE ECOC FLF 446). February 1998: Bradford City Transport 405 (EFE). March 1998: When Irish Eyes are smiling (OOC Lough Swilly Leopard 244). April 1998: EFE Glasgow RT. July 1998: Under Two Flags? Stratford Blue 36 - Midland Red North 2036 (EFE). September 1998: Off the Rails with British Railways Road Vehicles; Top of the Premier League; Crash. October 1998: United we stand - EFE United Bristol RELL. December 1998: Supershuttle: Corgi OOC Metrocentre Daf Optare Delta. February 1999: Happy Holidays on the Isle of Man (Corgi OOC Douglas AEC Regent V). March 1999: Exeter 18 - EFE Leyland Titan. April 1999: MacBraynes for the Highlands. May 1999: From Russia with Love - St Petersburg Tram Collection Glasgow single deck trolleybus. August 1999: Highland Fling (Corgi Post Bus Land Rover). October 1999: Ribble Rouser. August 2000: Guide Friday. October 2000: Provincial Buses. November 2000: Our Top 10 (Supplement) Robert Forsythe. December 2000: Arriva Northumbria 370. February 2001: Matchbox Railways. Spring 2001: Mary, Queen of Scots (A1 RAG 578) (Diecast Collector Extra). October 2001: Across the Irish Sea: EFE Ulsterbus Leopard.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Hexham Courant - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">18th October 2002: Tyne Valley rail users strive to improve line (full page, front page illustrated feature). 12th November 2010: Funding may restore the lost bus services. 1st February 2013: Historian pleads the case for future of rural bus services.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Hexham Courant Tynedale Visitor - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Summer 2001: Contributions to On the Buses and On the Right Track.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Industrial Heritage: The Magazine of the Durham University Group for Industrial Archaeology - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">May 1979: The Lancashire Extravaganza. October 1980: List of DUGIA events 1979/80. November 1981: Books for the North Eastern Industrial Archaeologist.; A review of Diesel Multiple Unit Traction on BR. February 1983: Ordnance Survey Maps and the Industrial Archaeologist. Summer (?) 1984: Northumbria Timetable Jottings.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">International Railway Modelling - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Winter 1996 (launch issue): Aster Gauge One. Spring 1996: First Thoughts: Modelling Dutch Railways in HO/N.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Ironbridge</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> Alumni IA - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Number 7 1988: Far Away is Near At Home (Coalbrookdale NZ/England).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Model Collecting Today - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">February/March 1998 (launch issue): The Pulling Power of Pullmans; How Buses became Collectors' Fare.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Model Collector - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">February 1992: Mark One Coaches.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Model Railway Collector - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">November 1992: Tail End Charlie Part 1.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Model Railway Enthusiast - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">A monthly series: November 1993 (launch issue): Profile of the 9F. December 1993: Profile of the Hymek. January 1994: Profile of </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Nellie</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">; The Graham Farish 00 Gauge Story. February 1994: The Woodhead Electrics (Profile); The Story of Thomas the Tank Engine. March 1994: Profile of Caledonian Single No.123; An Introduction to Hornby ACHO. April 1994: Profile of the Warships; Tri-ang Hornby Railways Literature. May 1994: Profile of the Kings; Bricks by rail: the LNER Bogie Brick Wagons. June 1994: Profile of the Deltics. July 1994: Profile of the LMS 8F Part 1; Wheel Notation. August 1994: Profile of the LMS 8F Part 2; Battlespace. September 1994: Profile of the L1. October 1994: Profile of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Pug. November 1994: Profile of the AL1 electric. January 1995: Profile Update. February 1995: Profile of the Buckjumpers. March 1995: Profile of the North British Diesel Shunters. April 1995: Profile of the Unrebuilt Royal Scots Part 1; Signalboxes Part 1. May 1995: Profile of the Unrebuilt Royal Scots Part 2. June 1995: Modernism versus Tradition (Signalboxes Part 2). July 1995: Profile of the Rebuilt Royal Scots. August 1995: Profile of London Transport Electric Locomotives. September 1995: Profile of the North British Atlantics; ETS - the charm of modern tinplate. October 1995: British H0 - a tantalising dream! November 1995: Profile of the BRCW Class 33 The Cromptons Part 1. December 1995: Ditto Part 2. January 1996: Ditto Part 3; DJH: Comes of Age Part 1 Company History. February 1996: Profile of the GWR Dean Single. March 1996: DJH Comes of Age Part 2 The Products. April 1996: DJH Comes of Age Part 3 The Production Checklist; Profile of </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">The Great Bear</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">. May 1996: Profile of the Austerity Tank Part 1. June 1996: Profile of the Austerity Tank Part 2; ERTL`s Thomas the Tank Models. July 1996: Profile Update (2). August 1996: Profile of the Metropolitan-Cammell 101 DMU and variants Part 1. September 1996: Profile of the Metropolitan-Cammell 101 DMU and variants Part 2; The Wrenn Directory (Review). November 1996: Shopping Between the Wars; (The Bianco Hornby-Dublo Reference Collection, see Christie's). February 1998: Profile of the </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Brighton Belle</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">; Profile of the Class 104; Surfing the Internet 1; Hornby Dublo/Wrenn Horseboxes. March 1998: Profiles of Class 56 and Lima Mark One GUVs, Surfing the Internet 2.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Modelrail - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">August 1999: Original Derby Lightweight Models. September 1999: Model 'Duchesses'. October 1999: Model Class 73s. November 1999: Blue Pullman Models. December 1999: GWR Grange 4-6-0 Models. February 2000: Virgin Livery Class 47s. March 2000: Model A3s. April 2000: Deltic Models. May 2000: Class 90 Models. June 2000: LMS 8F 2-8-0 Models. July 2000: Class 26 and 27 Models. August 2000: Class 47 Infrastructure LWCW Pool Models. September 2000 LNER V2 Models. October 2000: Class 20 Models. November 2000: Rebuilt 'Merchant Navy' 4-6-2 Models. December 2000: "Peak" Class Models. January 2001: Class 50 Models. February 2001: BR Standard '2MT' Models. March 2001: Class 86 Models. April 2001: Class 121/122 Models. May 2001: King Class Models. June 2001: Class 08 Models, Maps for the Modeller. July 2001: Class 35 Hymek Models. August 2001: Maunsell "Mogul" Models. September 2001: Model Class 58s. October 2001: HST Models. November 2001: Fowler 4F Models. December 2001: Class 37/0 Models. January 2002 Warship Models (hydraulic). February 2002: Terrier Models. March 2002: GWR City Class 4-4-0 Models. April 2002: Class 33 Models. May 2002: Leyland Sprinter Models Classes 155 and 153. June 2002 BR Standard '4MT' 4-6-0 Models. July 2002: Class 25 Models. August 2002: Metropolitan Cammell DMU Class 101 Models. September 2002: Austerity Tender Locomotive Models. October 2002: Class 89 and 91 Models. November 2002: Railbus Models. December 2002: Models of the Austerity 0-6-0ST. January 2003: Networker EMU Models Classes 365, 465-466. February 2003: LNER B12 Models, Remember Jamieson?, Ramsay's British Model Trains Catalogue Third Edition (Review). March 2003: Class 31 Locomotive Models. April 2003: Class 87 Locomotive Models, Remember K's. May 2003: Class 21/29 Locomotive Models. June 2003: 'Royal Scot' Models. July 2003: Class 156 Models. August 2003: Class 40 Models. September 2003: LNER Tram Engine Models. October 2003: Class 37/7 and 37/9 Models. November 2003: Class 117 Models. December 2003: GWR Large Prairie Models, Toy and Model Trams of the World (Review). January 2004: Class 66 Models. February 2004: Class 27 Models. March 2004: 'Schools' Models. April 2004: Class 56 Models. May 2004: Woodhead Electric Models. June 2004: BR Standard 2-6-4T Models. July 2004: Pacer Models. August 2004: Class 03 and 04 Models. September 2004: Class 57 Models. October 2004: GWR Hall Models. November 2004: Class 71/74 Models, Wrenn - from Binns Road to Basildon (Review). December 2004: Hire Diesel Models, Northumbrian Coal. January 2005: SR "Q1" Models, "Britannia" Books Make Good Double Act (Review), More than just Modern Traction Kits. February 2005: BRCW Low Density DMUs (models). March 2005: BR Clan Models. Ramsay's British Model Trains Catalogue (Review). April 2005: Mallard Models (GNER). May 2005: Class 52 Models. June 2005: LNER B1 Models. July 2005: Class 158 Models. August 2005: 1960s Diesel Prototype Models. January 2006: Breaking the Mould: Milestone Kits. April 2006: It was a very good year....1956, Record Breakers Alsthom's Co-Co, Brilliantly Old Fashioned - The Story of ACE Trains (Review). May 2007: 1957 a modeling year to remember. July 2007: What a GEM Part 1. October 2007: What a GEM Part 2. November 2007: Douglass delights. April 2008: Celebrity Models (Pullmans). June 2008 Class 108 Models. July 2008: GWR 2251 Models. Summer 2008: Class 60 Models. August 2008: Models of 1968. November 2008: Deltics in Model Form. January 2009: Super D in model form. March 2009: Plastic Fantastic: the story of 1959. May 2009: LSWR T9 models.</span><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Summer 2009: Milestone Models Mainline J72. September 2009: Milestone Models Tri-ang Rocket Launcher.</span><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">January 2010: Milestone Models Lima 201 Class.</span><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">August 2010: Milestone Models Tri-ang Mark One Sleeper</span><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">. </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">December 2010: 1960 Britannia Rules? January 2011: Railways at War (R.O.D. by Aves, review). July 2011: 1961 Year of the Mark One? February 2012: A History of White Metal Modelling (Review). March 2012: The Leeds Model Company 1912-2012 (Review). August 2012: 1997 Bittersweet Symphony. November 2012: 1962 Competitive Crazes. July 2013: Modelling the Underground. October 2013</span><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">: </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">1963 The crest of a wave. November 2013: 1983. January 2014: Milestone Models BR Standard Coaches. April 2014: 1984 Princess Revived and Dapol Thrives. Summer 2014: 1964 The white heat. December 2014: Milestone Models Thomas the Tank Engine. May 2015: Western Class 52 Masterclass supplement Models.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">North Pennine Heritage - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Autumn 1997: Pennine Travelogue (Newcastle-Keswick by Wright's bus). Summer 1999: An unexpected day (Auden tour 12.6.99). Winter 2003/4: Limestone Industries of the Yorkshire Dales (Review).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Northern Review (U.N.N.) - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Autumn 1999: An Auden Summer, 2002-2003: Recording a day of AD122.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Paperchase</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">May 1992: British Railways Windermere Lake Publicity. July 1992 : Paytrains in a few hundred words. August 1992: LMR Standard paper folder timetable logos. October 1992: NER ditto. November 1992: British Waterways ephemera. December 1992: Modern Inter City folder and booklet timetables. January 1993: Southern Region Timetable Leaflets. February 1993: The Penmanshiel Tunnel Disaster. March 1993: Inter City (and before) from London. May 1993: Merseyrail Literature. September 1993: Scottish Region small folder timetables prior to Corporate Image. March 1994: A Challenge for the Railair Type. April 1994: BR Public Timetables of the 1960's - some queries. July 1994: Bartholomew Maps in Public Transport. July 1995: Paperchase Jottings. September 1995: Anomalies of the Southern Region Corporate Image Pocket Timetable Era. November 1995: South Eastern Pocket Timetables. December 1995: November jottings and an autumnal trip from Bedford-Bletchley. January 1996: SWT Pocket Timetables. February 1996: NSC Pocket Timetables. March 1996: Notes on BR Period Bus/Rail Timetables. April 1996: Newcastle/Hull-Liverpool BR Trans-Pennine Timetables. July 1996: Summer Season. September 1996: British Railways Timetable Seasons. September 1997: Vale of Rheidol Railway BR Ephemera. March 2000: Southern Railway List of Official Publications, South for Sunshine (Reviews). September 2000: Manchester Suburban Railway Timetables. January 2001: The Hancock Report. July 2001: The Great Britain Rail Timetable - the sunset issues. September 2001: Western Timetables Summarised - Part 1. November 2001: Western Timetables Summarised - Part 2. September 2002: Robert Forsythe's quick review of the Summer National Rail Timetable cover. January 2003: It's Quicker By Rail - The History of LNER Advertising (Review).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Railway Magazine -</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> July 2004: Double Arrow: The Prequel (with author profile by the editor). March 2006: Pay Trains. January 2013: Whither "Scotsman" and the NRM?</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Railway Print Society Newsletter - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Winter 1992/93: British Railways Pocket Timetable Types Spring 1993: Collecting Paytrain Timetables Part 1. Summer 1993: Collecting Paytrain Timetables Part 2. Time and the Timetable:December 2007.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Railway World -</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> February 1990: Strathclyde Day Trippering.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Scottish Museum News -</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> Autumn 1988: The Development of Cunninghame District Council Museum Service. Winter 1988: A year of changes (The Scottish Maritime Museum).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Sea History (USA) - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Spring 1991: The Steam Collier Fleets (Review). Spring 1993: Furness Withy, 1891-1991 (Review).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Shiny Housewives 18</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> - Domination: A rubber tale.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Ships Monthly - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">May 1990 : Glenlight Shipping. October 1990: Review of 'A Legacy of Fame'. November 1990 : South of the Clyde. July 1992: Too buxom a Maid? (The </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Maid of the Loch</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">). November 1992: Common European Maritime Heritage Congress Report. February 1993: Excursion Ship News (The </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Keppel</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">). November 1993: Review of 'The 4.15 to Cartsdyke'. February 1994: Review of 'This Time of Crisis'. April 1994: Glenlight Demise. August 1994: Review of 'Merchant Fleets 26'. October 1994: Review of 'The Port of Leith'. January 1995: Review of 'In the Wake of the Vital Spark'. December 1995: Review of 'The Ingenious Mr Bell'; </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">HMS Cavalier</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> on Tyneside. March 1996: Review of 'The Ship and Boat Collection of Merseyside Maritime Museum'. October 1996: Review of 'Designing Ships for Sealink'. December 1996: Review of 'Glasgow's River'. April 1997: Review of 'Down Elswick Slipways'. June 1997: The Heritage of the </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Implacable</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Steam Days - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">September 2001: Anomalies of the NER Main Line.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Steam World -</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> January 1995: Scottish Steam on Paper. August 1995: North Wales Steam on Paper.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">T2M Newsletter</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">- Volume VIII No.4 2011: LTC Rolt Anniversary Symposium.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">The Galley Wireless -</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> Spring 1988: The Linthouse Engine Shop, The Growing Fleet. Winter 1988: Progress with the Collection.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">The Hornby Collector- </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">November/December 1998: The Bluebell Railway; The Kentish Belle.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">The W.H. Auden Society Newsletter - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">November 1999: A visit to Alston Moor.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Third Way - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">May 1990 : Motorway Madness. July 1990: Noble Heritage.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Traction - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">May 1996: Traction Modelling: Class 40 Models. June 1996: Traction Modelling: Class 20 Models. September 1996: Rumblings in Weardale. August 1997-July 1998: Railnet Hub (a monthly column about railways and the internet). August 1998: Deltics Publicised. November 1998, new series The Selling Power of Traction/Paperworks: 10201 and Careers in the Railway Service. March 1999: Putting Hydraulics on the Map. April 1999: British Rail DMUs & Diesel Railcars (Review). August 1999: Modernisation Progress Report 1961. October 1999: Rail Scotland Review 1981. November 1999: Lightweight Topics. December 1999: EE Type 4 on the 'Master Cutler', The Lee Moor Tramway (A Pictorial Record) (Review). January 2000: Automatic Half-Barrier Level Crossings. February 2000: Victor Britain and a Warship. March 2000: The next train (APT). April 2000: South for Sunshine (Review). October 2000: North Western Trains' Met-Camms Last Summer.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Train Collector </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">- September 2009: Jamieson "Handcut" Range. March 2010: Merco. June 2011: Pro-scale Part 1. September 2011: Pro-scale Part 2. December 2011: Centre Models, A History of White Metal Transport Modelling (review). June 2012: M&L Premier Kits Range. December 2012: GWR Class 11xx Dock Tanks. June 2013: Q Kits, My Railroad Collection (review). March 2014: Britain's Model Trains 2014 (review). December 2018: A Second Look at War Themed Railway Models, Quickfire Mark Ones from Margate.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Transport Ticket Society</span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> Journal : July 2009: Specialist Auctions.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Waterways World - </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">October 1996: Along the Cam and Great Ouse with Briscoe Snelson (Review).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Offprints:</span></i></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> </span></span><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Between the Lines: The magazine of the Weardale Railway Society - Spring 1997 Rumblings in Weardale, see Traction.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Some unpublished full manuscripts:</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Christ, Pain and Faith - a theological treatise. </span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">The Standard to Go By - models of British Railways standard coaches. </span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">The British Railways Timetable Catalogue - line by line, issue by issue. </span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Buses of Hawes. </span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">And other material.....</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> </span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Media Commissions:</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">25 minute video tutorial for Open University European Students Course A231 (February 1995).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Broadcast contributions and research to </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Reservoir of Darkness</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> concerning W. H. Auden and the Pennines broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 2nd May 1999.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Dales Diary</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> feature (Peter Mitchell Productions) on W. H. Auden around Keld. Robert Forsythe with Luke Casey broadcast on the 28th June 2001 on Tyne Tees TV and 3rd July 2001 on Yorkshire TV. The filming took place at the Auden names of Keld, Old Gang/Surrender, Punchard and Tan Hill Inn.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Programme originator, researcher and contributor to </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Auden's Eden</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the 24th March 2002.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Contributor to BBC TV Newcastle's </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Inside Out</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> feature on Wright's Brothers 888 Newcastle-Keswick bus service broadcast 4th November 2002.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">With Eric Robson in an</span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> Out of Town Special </span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">about Auden and the Pennines broadcast on ITV Tyne-Tees and Border on 28th March 2004.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Contributor to BBC Radio 3 </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Auden Six Unexpected Days </span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">broadcast on 18th February 2007.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Interviewed for </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">ephemera </span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">(well worth a glance) 28th September 2008.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Featured on both ITV Tyne Tees and BBC Look North in the guise of Matthew Plummer Chairman of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway on the 175th anniversary of its opening. 18th June 2013 (same also in Northern Connections Autumn 2013).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Contributor to BBC Radio 4 </span><i style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">In Praise of Limestone</span></i><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> broadcast on 6th October 2014.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Other Commissions:</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">West Yorkshire Transport Museum Inaugural Open Day Programme (7.10.84), (with A. J. Scott).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Northumberland County Council: The Three Bridges Walk 1997 Panel/Leaflet Text Research and Origination.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Alan Godfrey Maps, introductions provided for: Scotswood and Derwenthaugh 1895 (1996 edition); Whickham and Swalwell 1895 (1996 edition); Allendale and Hexhamshire 1866 (1998 edition); North Tynedale 1902 (1998 edition); Rothbury Forest 1873 (1999 edition); Alston Moor and Upper Weardale 1903 (2001 edition); Penrith, Inglewood & Hartside 1903 (2002 edition).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">The Kit Exchange commissioned texts from 1996 onwards for The British Locomotive Kit Manufacturer Project: Q OO Loco Kits; Gem OO Loco Kits; K's OO Loco Kits; Wills OO Loco Kits; Crownline OO Loco Kits; Jidenco OO Loco Kits; Falcon Brass OO Loco Kits; Nu-cast OO Loco Kits; Pro-scale OO Loco Kits; South Eastern Finecast OO Loco Kits; M&L Premier OO Loco Kits. Alan Gibson OO Loco Kits. ABS (incorporating Bec, ECJM, Anbrico, Centre) OO Loco Kits. Jamieson OO Loco Kits. MTK full range product table. Look above in the bibliography and between the "kits" book and features in Model Rail and Train Collector much of this had been published by 2011.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">John Ramsay for the British Model Trains Catalogue, a series of commissioned texts for the second edition published in 2000 and third edition of 2002, listed as produced during 1998-1999: Lima HO British Outline Models. Minitrix N British Outline Models. Bassett-Lowke O Gauge.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">For Chester-le-Track, Chester-le-Street Station: A Short History (Jan 1999).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">For Motorail Ltd: New beginning for Motorail sees cars getting back on track (Jan 1999).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">For Go-Ahead Group: Successful evolution: A brief history of "Northern" (May 1999).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">For Institute of Railway Studies, York: Is collecting British Railways publicity ephemera an archaeological task? delivery date 13th December 2000. This paper was reprinted in the Australian Association of Timetable Collectors journal The Times June 2004. Expressions of the Timetable delivered 14th February 2007. </span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">For Kate Robinson: Cataloguing of the William Nash 1920s Railway Photo Collection. Enquiries regarding its use may be directed through us. c300 quality prints unpublished prior to 2001 of trains in pre and post grouping liveries throughout the British Isles from Jersey to Kyle of Lochalsh.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">For Writing on the Wall, material developed from our Auden interests. This includes the first publication in print form of any of our creative writing in the 2006 hardback book "Writing on the Wall" ISBN 0-9553137-0-08.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">For Greg Norden Railway Publications: Carriage Print research work (from 2006).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">For Know your North Pennines, the Pennine Auden (Feb 2006), North Pennine Railways (Oct 2007 & April 2010).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">For International Institute of Information Design IIID Expert Forum Vienna: Messages From the Western European Fringes: An island, a city, a shopping mall. Paper presented 4th September 2008. Also follow up paper: Vienna a sugar icing confection?</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">For Strutt/Wright A History of White Metal Transport Modelling (2011), textual content on model railways and illustrations. Also History of Resin Transport Modelling (2013).</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">For Wikipedia and Tyne & Wear Museums & Archives, I was commissioned as Wikimedian in Residence March to June 2013. Full articles uploaded will be listed: MV Murree, Foyboat, Jimmy Forsyth (photographer), John Bowes (Steamship) Charles de Lacy and The Late Shows. At the same time using my private ID I worked on The Forsythe Collection and Keith Armstrong Author and Poet. The shortcut summaries to all my Wikipedia contributions are via User identities Robertforsythe and TWAMWIR. From Summer 2013 I have been assisting NEIMME with its Wikimedia project.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Key exhibition work (not comprehensive):</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">West Yorkshire Transport Museum exhibition bus 1985.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Scottish Maritime Museum Boatshop and Denny Tank Exhibitions 1988.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Robertson Museum (marine biology) Millport refurbishment 1990.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Hexham Town Trail for Tynedale Council 1991.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Historic Corbridge exhibition for Tourist Information Centre 1991.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Wylam Railway Bridge trail and exhibition for Northumberland County Council 1997.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Auden's Pennine Landscapes for North Pennines Heritage Trust, Nenthead Mines, Summer 1999. Also showed at Penrith Museum Winter 1999/2000, Nenthead Mines 21st April- 31st October 2000, The Discovery Centre, Bishop Auckland 1st-24th February 2001. Nenthead Mines 23rd March to 31st October 2002 and 19th July to 2nd November 2003.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Steam Upon Different Lines (the William Nash Collection) showed from 2002. At Penrith Museum 5th October to 30th November 2002; Forum 28 Barrow in Furness 6th December 2002 to 30th January 2003. As Heavyweight at the Brewery Art Centre, Kendal from 4th March to the 6th May 2003; Nenthead Mines 1st August to the 27th August and October 2003; Grimsby Central Library 30th August to 27th September 2003; Winships Gallery, Ovington, Northumberland throughout February 2004, The Beacon at Whitehaven April 27th to June 22nd 2004, Derby Industrial Museum September 26th 2004 to New Year 2005, Lancaster Maritime Museum May 28th to July 10th 2005, Kidderminster Railway Museum Sat 27th August to Sunday 2nd October 2005. Darlington Railway Centre and Museum 21st Oct 2005 to 28th Jan 2006, Queen's Hall Arts Hexham Sat 11th Feb - Sat 18th March 2006.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Photographic Work</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Published magazine covers: Railway Magazine February 1986. Buses Extra April-May 1987.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Material from our 250,000 strong image/archive collection has also appeared inside:</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Railway Magazine November 1986. Buses Extra April-May 1987. Wooden Boat September 1989. Railway World February 1990. Scottish Maritime Museum promotional leaflet. Scottish Maritime Museum 'Boatshop' exhibition in 1988. Border History Museum promotional leaflet. Go Ahead Northern Coastline Route Map 1992. Paperchase (regularly from 1992). Whitley Bay and Tynemouth 1993 A4 colour guide. Canal and Riverboat September 1993. Model Railway Enthusiast (regularly from November 1993, incl. covers). Backtrack May-June 1994/June 1995/August 1996/September 1996/April 1997/May 1997/January 1998/February 1998. British Railway Modelling April 1994/March 1995/August 1995/September 1997/December 1997. Steam World January 1995/August 1995. International Railway Modelling Spring 1996. Traction June 1996/September 1996/November 1997/March 1998/ regularly from August 1998. Antique Collecting February 1997. Rail Issue 304. Diecast Collector regularly from November 1997. Model Rail regularly from August 1999. W. H. Auden: Pennine Poet book and Auden's Pennine Landscapes exhibition, both for the North Pennines Heritage Trust 1999. Snow Flood and Tempest (Ian Allan 2001). Granada Television The Forsyte Saga 2002. Hexham Courant second section front cover spread, four pictures 18th October 2002. Loch Lomond and the Trossachs in History and Legend (John Donald 2004). Railway Magazine periodically from July 2004 (a notable use was in The Named Trains souvenir issue November 2011). Iron Road The Railway in Scotland (Birlinn 2007). In & Around Chester le Street Issue 58 January 2010. Buses February 2010. Tyne Valley Line Rail Users Group website. Hornby The official 2011 Handbook. A History of White Metal Transport Modelling (2011). Tyne Valley Line Rail Users Group 2012 leaflet. 18 in The Encyclopedia of Titled Trains (2012). Buses April 2013. United Enthusiasts Club journal 284 July 2013.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Uploads to Wiki Commons are made here </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DSpecial%253AListFiles%252FRobertforsythe%26ilshowall%3D1%26fbclid%3DIwAR2oFISju7PS0qAtp8-J0HKUzIKECdxqxFL1qiYUU3Hx3i5G6qfK3x0cCyI&h=AT3-8XScPFWf8Ymw1flfSVCixhLpcpklR4sPswNBtvOcVUIRdRFlGGGzjB0taRXpD_ZmWR443hksoTN-rttdorx1m_KORSUhjyOCTF5yJXnYRIGYS78d87AD6lfAJfEa4c_zd3SerYTxSWnZ21luZ3abDT-Y0d1c" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; animation-name: none; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Robertforsythe&ilshowall=1</span></a><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">.</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">For a good index to all our web presence go to About Me </span><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1qq9wsj xo1l8bm" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fabout.me%2Fforsytherobert%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1IuASJB4ae2Foafesp84tvwCCUf8xasiFKbsceuAIueytM5Aqk4I5r1qE&h=AT1n-6DzDBRNfAE7vY_6yeNuXsWUWIW2S84lvnMWjd2sAXa0OuJmEd96F7aXVWJ2ZRaFeYqaTCrrR-F5FJ2E4S48icqD2HKGrfGiF3EVG8L7vvu1ZoGoaOtgt35vql8j1zWK5EONIc7i4Oua1R6vwRlV_EUqmPdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; animation-name: none; background-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-property: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">https://about.me/forsytherobert</span></a><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> .</span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><br style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;" /></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> Email robert@fionnconsultancy.co.uk . R N Forsythe, 16 Lime Grove, Prudhoe, Northumberland, NE42 6PR, UK. </span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"> Phone/fax 07833675943. </span></span></p></span></div></span></div></div>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-10361543252689807742022-11-15T20:29:00.001-08:002022-11-15T21:12:15.203-08:00No to delusional leaders, yes to rubber condoms.<p> This day our news is dominated by Trump announcing he intends to run again and the hailing of the eight billion birth. The wider context is growing global tensions and the green agenda. I do not think there is one precise set of answers (save those of Jesus Christ and they are not actually precise). It is better to commit to directions of travel. I was born in 1959 when world population was three billion - https://www.populationpyramid.net/world/1959/ . For one lifetime this is utterly incredible and it is world population that more than anything else has created the green crisis. I have long appreciated that ordained man Malthus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus . Crying out to Just Stop Oil is one thing however the diesel engine is one of the most efficient of human inventions. The damage battery cars can do has yet to be really calculated. Electric cars from a central green power source might be better. Bodyshells and roof tiles which are solar generators.</p><p> What really brings the planet back into balance is less of us. Less of megacities utterly unable to control plastic waste and the damage that is doing to the oceans. I do not advocate euthanasia. I do believe life is sacred but it stares us in the face that the science of reproduction is hugely wasteful. Jesus even got into this in parables. The way to have less of us should have been the enthusiastic promotion of rubber condoms. I am a rubberman. Those religious leaders who will not encourage the use of condoms are not offering populations hope but many of those same leaders have historically promoted the patriarchy and misogny. The situation is too critical to accommodate this any longer. After eating, the male sexual urge is one of the strongest forces on the planet and it needs to be managed (I do not say curtailed or destroyed but managed).</p><p> And yes the condom and the delusional leader are linked. How many children do Trump and Johnson have? Five and seven respectively. I hope humanity will come to sense and realise there are simple solutions but all the experts agree we are right on the edge of the precipice.</p>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-47870963868174391882022-09-13T09:00:00.006-07:002022-11-15T20:30:40.063-08:00Belfast 13th September 2022<p> Belfast 13th September 2022</p><p>A week ago it was POURING with rain in North East England. On the Monday it had been gloriously sunny and four of us had greatly enjoyed chasing the Tour of Britain in the Borders and being by the finishing line in Duns. I think I photographed the ultimate race winner Gonzalo Serrano who won in the most unexpected of circumstances. But to return to the Tuesday. It was a filthy day and the Cornish team St Pirren made the headlines as their team leader an ex stockbroker Alexandar Richardson retro engineered leadership by controlling the peloton from the breakway. A very rare feat which left David Millar in commentary breathless. The breakaway stayed away although Richardson had to settle for third.</p><p>Meanwhile elsewhere in Scotland much was happening. Liz Truss had been declared the new leader of the Tory party on Monday. On Tuesday the Queen had received both Johnson and Truss at Balmoral and Prime Ministerial power was exchanged. Now, reflect the Queen had gone to beloved Balmoral for the summer. She was on holiday and the Tories were fighting about leadership. </p><p>She could hardly be said to have seen eye to eye with Johnson. Johnson and Rees-Mogg had after all been to Balmoral in 2019 to persuade her to prorogue Parliament.</p><p>Two days after these audiences this week past in which she was described as alert but frail, she was dead. And the nation went into convulsions. But strange convulsions. No tragedy. This was sorrow and triumpth and it has become more than that. Because in her death the 96 year old Queen has masterminded a re-writing of contemporary Britishness. By which the entire establishment has been firmly reminded that England is one of four partner nations of the British Isles.</p><p>Suddenly all eyes are on Charles. He is undertaking a tour of the nations. The Queen is dead, Long Live the King. Everyone seemingly wants to shake the hand of sacred monarchy. Every turn has been about Christ and the Servant Queen. Scotland and its politicians discovers it is centre stage. The new English prime minister has to trek around and perform something of an also ran function.</p><p>This could not have been clearer in today's visit to Belfast and Hillsborough. I wonder if anything like today could have occured in 1997? I watched end to end the service in Belfast St Anne's Cathedral. Civic religion can sometimes leave me conflicted. this was ELECTRIC. It deserves to be watched several times. The camera caught Liz Truss more than once. She looked liked a woman who having planned one set of actions a few days ago was now squashed by events which were conspiring to impress on her the need to execute several U turns. </p><p>The sight of Alex Maskey the bruiser, reading Phillipians with total conviction. The realisation that this was an ALL IRELAND event. The President of Ireland and his wife sat across the aisle from the new King and his consort. Immediately after the service, Charles went and greeted the President and his wife. In the warmest of ways there was clear mutual encouragement. The new UK PM just one place down in the pew had to stay silent.</p><p>The sermon from the Archbishop of Armagh will go down in history. So will the Celtic blessing delivered by multiple Church leaders. The Archbishop made clear how much the Christian leadership of the Queen had achieved and in eye to eye contact with an acknowledged acceptance the new King was clearly committed to his mother's agenda.</p><p>If anyone can tell me how many citizens of the Republic were in the congregation please do. A considerable number. There must have been some horse trainers? When Westminster politics restarts, the immediate need to solve the energy bills will be no less urgent. And yet it is as if with a summer, aged 96 to reflect in Balmoral, the Queen had resolved to bowl a googly at her politicians. These last few years have been dreadful. The EU referendum decision in which the UK pointedly did not learn from Ireland. The shambles and tragedy of covid in which whilst the Queen led in isolation, the PM partied and wriggled to cover his tracks have left the British very miserable. Our absolute need to unite around something else these 10 days are showing in rose petals. The shock of a new European war and a bully for an international leader have been very disturbing.</p><p>In Elizabeth's death there is suddenly a chance of a new beginning, a resurrection. We can even talk of the Saintliness of the former monarch. We can reflect that without the supercharged Grace of Love which she conveyed and which present politics does not, we are stuck. We need to rediscover ourselves as the British Isles with flexible models of government, and also as geographically determined wedded to Europe and not a Trans Pacific trading entity. Realism and humility along with faith and spirituality need to partner again in a civic religion we can all buy into and which She exemplified. </p><p>Rough edges? I was sad the Tour of Britain's last three stages were cancelled. One I could understand, black armbands would have been reasonable. And in a few minutes the Queen's body will probably fly in sight of Prudhoe. There will not be much we can do and the sight as in 1952 of the solemn passing of the Coffin on the Royal Train we have been denied. </p>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-71526623721946116192021-04-11T01:32:00.009-07:002021-04-11T01:54:14.016-07:00HRH The Duke of Edinburgh<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fiona and I gave the hour from 8am to Radio Four. I had failed to gel with the Archbishop's Easter service a week ago in the same timeslot. It is my experience that the last year has been a groundhog day on steroids. Now, another week has passed, but it has seen something of a seismic shift: the Duke of Edinburgh has died. This time, for me anyway, The Very Revd Dr David Hoyle, Dean of Westminster Abbey had it just right. The absolute driver was service and Easter, whether that be the service of Christ, Him to us and us to Him or the same service informing the life of Prince Phillip. The Anglican Worship was beautiful. Some small niggle in myself was ruefully thinking that this was what made the British Empire so successful and even now makes many around the World appreciate being in our Commonwealth. On offer is a velvet gloved totalitarianism in which the concept of Service can be used to persuade people to do extra-ordinary things (remembering that we live on a piece of space rock I wonder how much that should surprise us).. It is a sort of golden deal for the powerful, one which enabled Indian Maharajas or Pacific Island leaders to see a very appealing progressive contexualisation. Where appropriate it got you a Rolls Royce. As many folk are explaining (Robert Wise), at a different plane, the life experience of the majority might diverge. As the service ended the BBC announced that in a change to the schedule Rebecca Stott would give A Point of View on Kenwood Mixers. This was inspired editing. It cut very close to my grain. She landed us in the mid 1970s and utter family chaos in which a strong woman did incredible things. MEN! Prince Phillip was let down by his father! Staggeringly so. My experience of an army officer, a parachutist was quite challenging. A person who could lead, who could see what he wanted doing but was not about always being polite nor see that there could be family divergences. Between 1974-1976 I was a teenager very keen not to be part of the British Public School system. It was a conflict finally only resolved by becoming a Christian and realising Love was the key to becoming part of a much larger context than the individual. It is clear to me Prince Phillip understood that expression of Love in bucketloads, the Queen likewise. And also millions of everyday folk. That is why Rebecca Stott's remembrances of a crowded fatherless house in Hove are so important. Despite the pain, joy was found. I am no left wing feminist who thinks men should be seen and not heard as payback for what went before. I do think that to resolve the age old tension men and women experience, their relationships should be as persons laid before Christ.</span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v82x?fbclid=IwAR0aatcEqsB6c68SnWBmSzyjjm-mNLJ9xZAVCrjIQZ_Fg5wRt6mME9P4sfM" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative; transition-property: none !important;"><span data-offset-key="b51rb-0-0" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">It is so sad to read this. Petrol bombs in Carrickfergus. This is where my Grandfather was born. This is where the Forsythe family really got into money making, in the 19th century. The Forsythe's have ever been pragmaticists and traders, not ideologues. They have also been internationalists. Family members, close family members live in Spain, Canada and Chile. Despite being born in Norfolk, my love blossomed in Dumbarton. Since 1986 my life has been led in crossing constantly (until March 2020) a Border that should be of no consequence. Many warned on this account (so John Batts) constantly of the perils posed to peace by Brexit. Because I am not an ideologue I recognise problems with the EU. And yes it would appear Leave more so than Remain has a stronger suite over the vaccine. But to take either of those options is ridiculous because what is at stake is the precious unity of the British Isles. Those who don't see that because Westminster is unimpressive the best solution is to rat on it and on the English leave me cold. Everyone in these islands are one British kith and kin. It is called geography and it is nuts to try and escape it just as it is nuts to try and escape Europe as our most significant trading partner. In the EU we had a deal better than Germany's but the ideologues and purveyors of division could not see it. So whether you are a Scottish Nationalist or an English one you both are one of a kind. Violence is no solution and compromise and renewal in faith in hope are the only ways forward.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="rq0escxv pmk7jnqg du4w35lb j83agx80 pfnyh3mw i1fnvgqd gs1a9yip owycx6da btwxx1t3 i09qtzwb qpd6qd77" style="align-items: stretch; animation-name: none !important; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-flow: row nowrap; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: inherit; justify-content: space-between; position: absolute; right: 9px; transition-property: none !important; z-index: 0;"><div class="rq0escxv l9j0dhe7 du4w35lb j83agx80 cbu4d94t pfnyh3mw d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz" style="animation-name: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: inherit; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; position: relative; transition-property: none !important; z-index: 0;"><div class="kgtf8isp" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; opacity: 0.7; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41" style="align-items: inherit; 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background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 26px 52px; display: inline-block; height: 24px; object-fit: cover; transition-property: none !important; vertical-align: -0.25em; width: 24px;"></i></div></div></div></div><div style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><div style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-52229128767087043962021-03-23T00:37:00.006-07:002021-03-23T01:33:50.582-07:00One year of the lockdown.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IU1WkXGdA2w/YFmawjwqZKI/AAAAAAAAAuE/cmMufuvtQHAsYli-9nKViCsXTJvxwHprgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1204/scan0046.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1204" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IU1WkXGdA2w/YFmawjwqZKI/AAAAAAAAAuE/cmMufuvtQHAsYli-9nKViCsXTJvxwHprgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/scan0046.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today the nation is marking one year since the start of lockdown and remembering the 126,000 Covid victims. We are in a better place just now. I think 17 people died of it in the UK yesterday. But it has been an appalling roller coaster. It has not been Britain's finest hour although the vaccines do now offer real hope. Make sure you get yours! About the linked photo, my father 1916-2004 and mother 1923-2005 in their heyday. Three cars before their demise. Working backwards they had a Polo, a Golf, this BMW in 1971 and in the years before that back through to 1959 when I was born, two Rover P4s. The major impacting moment of their lives was World War Two. Now as it happens 16 and 17 years ago today and tomorrow we buried them. March is really tinged for me and Fiona's mum was a March death and burial too in 2018. I think the death rate in this Pandemic against one year of the war is broadly comparable. My mother was big on stories about parties at USAF airbases. They did not meet until after the war. In a sense they both had "good wars". But the chaos of the war certainly left scars which would impact their lives and those of their children for many decades. At least in the war, the front line forces were found leave. You could not be on duty all the time. Travel around Britain remained just about practical. I believe in this crisis for NHS staff a very difficult challenge has been getting away from the extra-ordinary PTSD level scenes they have had to deal with. We have simply not had enough troops! I am so glad neither my father or mother saw this pandemic. They would not have been impressed. </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"> </span><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f0f2f5; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">I can confirm that photo was taken in 1984 at Lymington by their friend John Brice.</span></p>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-52865043247273495962020-11-17T00:08:00.002-08:002020-11-17T08:47:56.264-08:00Boris on Scotland<p><span data-offset-key="9ic17-0-0"><span data-text="true">You will remember how Jeremy Corbyn came along and dismembered Scottish Labour with his attitude to devolution. To me it is no surprise at all that Boris Johnson did the same yesterday with his ill judged comments about devolution. This morning on R4 it was left to wise old Malcolm Rifkind to try to make some sense of it all. However so far no-one has tackled the elephant in the room. It is BREXIT. Guy Opperman had me telling the citizens of Hawick in 2014 that the only way to stay in the EU was to stay in the British Union. I am never going to forget that, as two years later that was swept down the pan. Support for EU membership, admiration for Sturgeon's government style, these remain strong and now with the crucial independence vote coming next May, the SNP have been handed a silver salver. Westminster Tories and Islington Socialites are incapable of understanding Scotland will be the mantra. I will level: the sooner Boris is gone the better. He is an utter disaster. He cannot manage social distancing in his own home, told to isolate, he opens his mouth on devolution! I am not keen on Scottish independence but Scotland is quite entitled to say our settled will was to remain in the EU and the UK government has to square that or else the UK becomes a footnote in history. It is a difficult one to square as is a Border in the Irish Sea and there are now only a few weeks in the world wide pandemic in which to do it. If we crash out to no deal on Jan 1st the resultant chaos will ensure a SNP walk over in May. Independence could easily follow even if I candidly feel it will not become a bed of economical roses. I also do feel that to insist on a referendum in 2021 when we are still reeling from Covid is rather beneath the belt. All Britons Take note, what happens between us and the EU in the next few short weeks will really affect whether you have one united union of nations to be proud of or not.</span></span></p>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-57274139935259126792020-06-13T03:46:00.000-07:002020-06-14T02:37:58.771-07:00Monuments and the Queen<span data-offset-key="1bskc-0-0"><span data-text="true">Emma Soames ""We've come to this place where history is viewed only entirely through the prism of the present," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. " Much of me has done my best to avoid talking about the rascist controversies. I am certain George Floyd died unjustly. But I am very uncomfortable about much that has happened in the middle of a pandemic lately. Yet to argue about this, easily takes one into a corner one does not want to be in. Do not think I have not thought and prayed about it much. So hear my best offering. At the root of all this lies man's readiness to bully other people. We just love it. I hated school for this reason, dammed near suicidally. I hated workplace bullies, I found my Lady and we have tried to build our little bit of heaven on earth. On all this I hate bullies, I am clearly with George Floyd but what if rioting and civil protest, taking over precincts in Seattle itself looks like bullying? How do we get out of this? I am offering this answer. We recognise that the ultimate bully, the one who started it all is God the creator (because I will not accept the Genesis account and that because man did not consciously fault but faulted into consciousness (I am with Auden, that profound bisexual poet of the 20th c (courting controvery at several levels there))). Auden learnt that, and says so bluntly, in our Pennine backyard. So grant to me any God who created this world must bear some responsibility for the bullying. What should we do in this moment? Surely logic says in the mood of our moment, anything that speaks of God must be torn down. We must not remember we believed. Justice can only be served by removal. Destroy the churches and temples! What does that remind you of? It reminds me of what happened in England after the reformation and in the Commonwealth. Is that the world you wish to be in because we could be quite near creating it in all this monument bashing? Alternatively you might want to read the Gospel stories again and see if some saving paradox is present? So give me a protest in Whitehall today or the Queen's ceremonies at Windsor and I will be with her. A most remarkable woman of faith. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53033550</span></span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-17966222068252917202020-01-28T00:03:00.004-08:002020-01-28T00:03:52.870-08:00House of Bishops<span data-offset-key="fgvja-0-0"><span data-text="true">I have just listened to R4 Thought for the Day. More often than not its announcement jumps me out of bed to switch the radio off. Today was the Revd. Giles Fraser and he rightly ripped into last week's House of Bishops report on Civil Partnerships. His most telling comment that the church blesses warships but will not accept that people can choose to love each other and value person before gender. Despite Jesus clearly valuing person before gender and the whole idea of "One God in three persons, holy and blessed Trinity" getting on for being two thousand years old. This week I have encountered a dear friend who is very much exercised by this dinosaur like mentality. I know many broad minded ministers and I know others who would struggle to welcome a gay couple into church and communion. This is such a pathetic dispute but at its heart lies the idea of authority and whether a book tops the spirit. Jesus never promised a book but promised the Spirit. In my view whether you believe in a seven day creation and possibly even more importantly did pain enter the world before or after the fall will colour what you make of gay relationships. I am with Auden "Man faulted into consciousness". Are you with science or not? Genesis does matter. It is wrong, wrong scientifically (about creation and about death), wrong morally, wrong in its treatment of women. Unless you are willing to confront that and be clear, then the pain will continue and the Churches will be left to the fanatics who do not welcome people and are full of fear and judgement. Sad that when what the world needs is to know that grace and love can be tops. And that God could take responsibility by being incarnate of the Virgin Mary.</span></span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-55304632499731415662019-12-30T01:39:00.000-08:002019-12-30T01:44:20.904-08:00Climate change New Year 2020<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="9ne2e" data-offset-key="9fa2q-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="9fa2q-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The Apocalypse is now. Whether you are in Idlib or the suburbs of Sydney. In Prudhoe it is a beautiful quiet morning and unseasonably warm for sure. In Australia it is our flaming June and it certainly is. There is months more to go. Australian institutions have been notably reluctant to recognise climate change. Just weeks ago they helped mess up the latest intergovernmental climate change conference. This I am certain of and so is the retiring BoE governor. Face up to the reality of the massive change needed in all our lives or we will quite likely burn. A dry summer in Prudhoe surrounded by its beautiful woodlands? That is what is happening to people just like you and me whether in Greece, California or Australia. This is a stark situation and I am amazed that many people will want to start New Year with a fireworks display? The thing is we have to listen to the Scientists and along the way the hearts of Putin, Trump et al have to change. But that is the rub, the hearts of all of us have to change. We need redemption. Recent political processes in Great Britain show the nastiness that lies in the human heart. Honest genuine patriotism can very easily be slid into warped hate filled nationalism. Nationalism will get the world nowhere in the face of where we are near headed. The miracle that is needed is a miracle of the heart and I would commend Jesus Christ and his Gospel and his presence today in the Holy Spirit as a power worth bending the knee too. My daughter gave me for Christmas a beautiful brand new apology for the Christian faith by Alister McGrath. And that reminded me of another book we have, all in the links below. I am an industrial archaeologist who sells out of date bus timetables married to a lovely librarian. Both of us work very hard in developing better public transport which will be essential going forward and where in the last 30 years investment (real betterment not like for like replacement) in North East England has been next to non existent. The famous industrial historian and founder of railway preservation L T C Rolt wrote one of the earliest green books - High Horse Riderless and I read it decades ago. Have a wonderful New Year Holiday and gear up for huge change in 2020!</span></div>
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robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-51830184429288011192019-05-17T02:54:00.001-07:002019-05-17T02:54:07.579-07:00Mrs May will resign<span data-offset-key="31r8s-0-0"><span data-text="true">This became inevitable the moment she really announced she would go. Has there ever been a longer lame duck PM in our history? Ever since she lost the 2017 election and then had a monumental defeat last autumn. Each of the those moments would have been perfect to say I am not in the right job. And she certainly is not because any of networking, compromising, gladhanding skils she certainly does not have and the situation certainly needs them. It seems very likely that the elections next week will be more bloody noses. The only question is will the centre or the far right scent victory? She apparently thinks this will scare Labour and the Tories into voting for what most seem to think is a deal in which we say goodbye to sovereignty handing it and our trade deals to the EU. Is that likely? Will the parting gift at the moment of resignation be "Oh, you are going, we will vote on the fourth go for your plan"? New faces are needed either to make a real Brexit work or to tell the nation, "you know what, you were uttely misled, we cannot do this and if we do you can say goodbye to heavy industry" (heard about British Steel this week?). Sense would say a general election or new referendum will take place and that we will learn from the Irish. Sense however in British politics has been lacking since probably 2014/15? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48304867</span></span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-32683958469880218692019-05-06T11:02:00.002-07:002019-05-06T11:02:51.654-07:00UN Climate Change reportI feel something should be said about climate change, so much in the
news recently. But what? I do not feel I have anything systematic to
say. Just a series of questions and points which may add up to
something. I cannot say that the UN report or the extinction rebellion
protesters have enthused me. Jamming up London's public transport
certainly did not. I do not deny the reality of man made global warming.
I am very taken by the thought that the world population has doubled <span class="text_exposed_show">since
1970. That cannot be remotely sustainable. For the UK my preference is a
population at about the 60 million level and it should be a society
which is very self sustaining and biased towards quality public
transport. It is no sweat to me to ground flight. But think how many
Kenyans or Egyptians would be upset by that? Will airships becomes the
answer? I live in rural England and Scotland, a modern clean diesel car
seems inescapable until battery power is really tops. And think of the
rare metals that go into those batteries. I don't mind imported meat
drying up especially from North America. But do I want to live without
corned beef? And I certainly really enjoy eating Galloway beef and the
other excellent options with no food miles on them that you can enjoy
from Northumberland and South West Scotland. It does seem to me that the
real action if change is to happen is in South America, the Trophics,
Sub Saharan Africa and the Sea. Eliminating plastic from the sea is a no
brainer. But telling people not to have babies is not popular. The
Chinese tried to and gave up? Should they have given up? I am very
relieved we only have had one child yet the animal reaction is to go
forth and procreate. Sex needs to be realigned as primarily for
pleasure. Many religious groups including Catholicism would struggle
with the new message: the world is overfull. Malthus the priest is
someone we have to listen to. Go to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus</a> </span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-13351199697845786802019-04-10T23:31:00.000-07:002019-04-10T23:31:05.435-07:00Not left..........................................<div data-contents="true">
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robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-5925390251592971312019-03-31T03:30:00.001-07:002019-03-31T03:38:08.360-07:00Bogged down on the 31st March 2019<span data-offset-key="dl0j4-0-0"><span data-text="true">Okay it is still Brexit : after 10am on Marr, I heard something so revealing from Jane Moore Sun columnist. She was arguing that if we had voted Remain no more chaos would have followed and that by voting Leave the same logic should have been. They were both the yes/no of a binary situation. And that my dear Leaver is where it is all SO wrong. When you remain you vote for the status quo and there de facto you have to know what it means for all the shortcomings. But when you vote leave for a new situation, that is bound to be a hugely different choice. In logic, entering an undefined future is bound to involve far more potential answers than staying in stasis. That is even before you enter the real world that the EU, a massive trading partner of ours was not going anywhere because we said Leave. It is called geography. This refusal to recognise the huge flaws in the project from the outset which Gisella Stewart acknowledged and then correctly blamed on Parliament for signing off the Tory project is why we are where we are: stuck. And if you are Leave please understand that Leave could never, can never and will never mean simply Leave, not unless you wish to be in the mid Atlantic. A huge can of worms was opened in that referendum and we both said then "we're not playing" and I am so glad we did not. To have seriously entertained Leave a large number of white papers which never existed should have been written. And even after the vote, before Article 50 was signed, the studies to say what Leaving would look like could have been done. I cannot comprehend the most basic of mistakes that one after another both Cameron and May made. It seems to me most unlikely the end result is a crash out because as I think Stewart made clear and if not her another contributor, people may have thought they lived in a direct democracy, but they do not, they live in a representative democracy and that was rather ignored. I have no idea how this will end but an election is increasingly being framed, the local canvassing is certainly happening. But how that will make sense without clear remain or leave parties I have no idea. British politics is actually utterly stuck. However the best thing to do is to be patient and not advocate anything precipitate for that route brings suffering. After all the economy and the jobs market seem to plough on.</span></span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-87575971025085253982018-11-15T00:02:00.002-08:002018-11-15T00:42:01.384-08:0015th November 2018 Cabinet agreement<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The sun is glinting on buildings down the valley. Sir Keir Starmer has just been roasted from about 0735am by Nick on R4. Labour have condemned the May deal and Nick Robinson had decided to show Sir Keir how close the deal was to Labour's stated position. That well shows the complexities immediately in prospect. I was never a fan of 2016 and in the end did not vote. From about the period of June I have said May's tack was the only show on the road. That remains the case. Behind all the froth, last night Newsnight had experts who had seen the deal, explaining why it made some sense. The Referendum debate back in 2016 showed what a hopeless instrument it was for informed debate, the same sort of process is at work now. There will be immense heat over Northern Ireland for an aspect of the agreement which is not even intended to happen. Some Brexiteers will long and work for no deal. I have never supported no deal. How that can be a happy outcome I find unfathomable. My hunch is that if you were going to have a Brexit, Mrs May's result was the likely one. It preserves jobs, gives us back some control and money, and isolates us from having influence in Europe. That is a realistic assessment. Allowing all that, many might feel we were far better off staying where we are? What happens next? In some ways May got Cabinet backing, some form of words from a hugely divided Cabinet and party. But now it is Parliament. That really does have Maths to suggest it is much more challenging. If Labour do what we are told Corbyn will tell them to do, it is lost. However Corbyn has always supported May and Brexit in key votes. Assuming the deal is not supported by Parliament, all bets are off. But what I lament is that an issue that ought never to have been an issue has been hugely divisive to the United Kingdom for years now and it ain't going away. I feel she will not win in Parliament because individuals with their own agendas will not embrace the logic of May's deal. It is what you get if you vote for Brexit, a loony position. It makes the best of a bad job. But achieving a majority in Parliament from a minority party to make the best of a bad job would seem a tall order. We go forward into the unknown buoyed up largely for today by the prospect of some sunshine.</span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-72280309898570682612018-07-17T01:24:00.003-07:002018-07-17T01:24:54.936-07:00Justine Greening's call.<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It would appear even Parliament after last night is recognising a stalemate. There is Justine Greening calling for another referendum and various folks talking about crisis etc etc. What has changed? For over two years the UK has been unable to decide anything credible so what is different now? If I belonged to the ERG I would be delighted by recent events. Mrs May has not got her way post Chequers and it seems unlikely Brussels will agree to the proposal. The chances of us crashing out of the EU increase steadily and for all hard Brexiteers this must be the best solution forcing us to be independent. Yet business does not seem comfortable with this, the usual Tory partners. I rather think Mrs May's scheme is the only practical route to achieve a Brexit. What about this second referendum then? I am not calling for one. We live in a Parliamentary representative democracy. I did not have a lot of faith in the 2016 one because as was abundantly clear people could not on the information given know what they were voting about. Many thought it was about sending immigrants home the next day. So what would make another referendum better? I don't know. And why would it matter? Are we not leaving on March 19th next period? No, I think Parliamentarians have to knuckle down and sort it out. National interest comes before party and it a certain party is broken by it, so be it. And if there was another referendum how would I vote? Probably Remain because I would feel Leave has had plenty of time to show how to Brexit properly and beneficially and it has not done that. But what would voting Remain mean? Exactly where we were? Immigration was one of the strongest planks Leave had (although I note the numbers are still very high but it is now more rest of the world and less from the neighbours). Maybe we would be pressed to join Schengen or the Euro and regardless of what I think, the Brits will not buy those for a while yet. Incidentally having just come back from France I cannot work out why food (including French food) is so clearly cheaper in the UK than in France. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44855123">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44855123</a></span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-29569806210765094252018-02-14T11:48:00.002-08:002018-02-14T11:48:29.682-08:00Boris' speech<span data-offset-key="a2fbv-0-0"><span data-text="true">Guess where I listened to R4 reporting Boris' speech this afternoon. Somewhere on the A75 near Dumfries. It was at the level of a second rate Oxford Union address. It did not deal with the questions of the moment. For months now everyone from business to the EU have pressed us (or the Tory government) "tell us what you want and how it will work?". Square the circle open freely moving borders including Ireland and whether leaving the EU means leaving the Custom's Union and the Common Market. Boris had no answers just Boris woffle. More speeches promised this week but do we really think any of them will have answers? I am not a remainer or a leaver. I am not Matthew Paris lying awake at night smarting from defeat. If you can, make Brexit work to our financial advantage; and if you can't, fess up to the nation over how ill led we have been. I say this with feeling because I spent the day in one of Europe's greatest strategic corridors. The Tyne Solway Gap aka as Hadrian's Wall aka the A69/75 Euroroute from the North Sea Ports to Ireland. And what is it like? You grind along surrounded by lorries from Italy, MacBurney's from Ballymena, who ever knows who from Donegal. You all get fouled up in the new roundabout at Dumfries Hospital. And so on and so forth. It is a dreadful route. Relatively speaking the Stanegate was more remarkable as was General Wade's Military Road from Newcastle to Portpatrick (a lot of which is the Euroroute but not all). What is the best reason for leaving the EU? Because we are not up to it. We have never been good at taking strategic benefit from it. Unlike the Irish, we don't how to get the EU to electrify derelict canal locks in the middle of nowhere. We muddle along because we love British amateurism. 18 months of planning for Brexit have demonstrated that. We genuinely have no idea from the Cabinet downwards how to deliver Brexit. And Boris did not enlighten. The next step..................................</span></span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-36251108230921212322018-01-09T23:55:00.003-08:002018-01-09T23:58:04.535-08:00Corbyn's friendship with MayIf you call for staying in the Customs Union you should be blasted!!!!
That is what the Daily Express and the Labour Party agree over. Not for
the first time I am left saying Corbyn is May's best friend (a critic
says so in the link). It would never surprise me to discover Corbyn is
encouraged by May. "Hear, you have a job for life so long as you stay in
"opposition" and I will help you". Opposition is about just that, so
all the other opposition parties suggest a tactic Corb<span class="text_exposed_show">yn
should welcome and he says No. The British Public by a very thin margin
voted to leave the EU. Nothing was said on the paper about Customs
Union, Common Market, although many people had their opinions. There is
ample evidence many thought it was an exercise to get rid of Cameron and
the government. That went off half cock. So 2018 starts with the same
meaningless record. And this is why I say it is meaningless. Because
although Corbyn and the Tory Right are both united in wanting as little
to do with the EU as possible, they do want this for very different
reasons. One wants the Freedom to build the Socialist Workers Utopia
(with the railways as an example to us all), the other wants a Hard
Right fantasy. One of those is going to be disappointed. One is a small
number of people and a lot of money. The other is a lot of people and
not much idea about money. And in between are most of us! Like the
commuters trying to get to work this week (where I am not). Stuffed by
intransigence, loud mouths and dogmatists. Along come some politicians
who want to break through that and Corbyn says no, even though most of
his MPs think Remain a good idea. Finally who realises the inception of
Concorde helped fuel British distrust of Europe. I have chapter and
verse for that. See https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/901888/Brexit-News-BBC-latest-UK-EU-European-Union-Jeremy-Corbyn .</span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-80467573315750662192018-01-07T03:39:00.002-08:002018-01-07T03:39:42.295-08:00First Saturday of 2018The first Saturday of 2018. By a thin majority the nation voted to say
goodbye to our largest trading partners and 27 of our neighbours. 18
months after that vote and no-one REALLY knows how to do it. We are
governed by a political party with just about 100,000 members? They are
propped up by 10 Ulster MPs from the party and religious presuppostions
of Ian Paisley. The most effective opposition to government comes from
the SNP and its leader. Small wonder one faces 2018 in a spirit of
uncertainty. If you had asked me to believe this would happen from the
perspective of 1998 I would have said "Rowlocks". And above all, I don't
get it, I don't understand how this has happened. And I don't know if
the answer is Facebook.robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-11376102173038782372018-01-02T00:31:00.001-08:002018-01-02T00:31:30.476-08:00Rail fares go up 2nd January 2018<span data-offset-key="2mto3-0-0"><span data-text="true">Some of you will have just heard R4 with two protagonists on rail fares. Gents each from the Rail Delivery Group (who knows what that does?) and the Shadow Transport Secretary from Labour. Chris Grayling could not be borrowed to explain anything. The two who did speak were pathetic and this was based on their ignorance. The one point I heard which I think was a score was the stress on how foreign state railways benefit. It is a racket. The ignorance was for instance displayed by no-one mentioning the REPEATED failure of rail franchises. And added to it the CONSTANT changes of policy by Government. Tell me about Anglia Railways and Great Western (forgetting that serial offender East Coast) to understand this. Labour NEED to positively explain how they can do better. The guy did not. They need to say that the rail industry can only be efficient if vertically integrated and that the BR of 1993 was the most successful railway in Western Europe. All Labour needs to do is arm itself with the facts and figures of 1993 and say we will recreate British Railways as configured not for 1948 and Attlee but for 1993.</span></span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-19717807068961437022017-06-10T01:06:00.000-07:002017-06-10T01:06:17.253-07:00Hung ParliamentOur nation is one of the greatest nations in the World and most
certainly in Europe. Viewed from the perspective of our friends and
neighbours in the near Continent, this great nation seems engaged in
collective long term stupidity. We want to sever relationships with our
friends. At the end of the day, despite leading a very successful
campaign, Labour is still a long way from government. The Tory leader
(who I never felt very comfortable over) ran a terrible campaign (the v<span class="text_exposed_show">isit
to Eshott airfield really started to raise my eyebrows). But at the end
of the day she had increased the Tory share of the vote but lost her
majority. The Tories both in Parliament and the Nation remain CLEARLY
the most powerful force and eclipse the Left. Yet the overwhelming power
they sought eludes. Possibly because in a democracy we don't want
anyone to have overwhelming power? The person who rescued the Tories was
a lesbian about to marry Scot. Ruth Davidson is incredible and if you
want the appealing politics of inclusivity, Mrs May should take much
more advice from her than the party of the Paisleys. Do not be mistaken,
the DUP are not and have never been the Ulster Conservatives. No way
and never. I am not surprised Arleen Foster is relishing the idea of her
politic being at the centre of British life for five years. No matter
the British government is neutral with Ulster politicians to ensure the
(currently broken down because of Foster) power sharing. So I think an
alliance with the DUP is easily as nutty as the Referendum of 2016. We
are simply as a nation not being "real". We are still pretty much
unwilling to see the Referendum for what it was. We are unwilling to
face down the UKIP mindset. Instead Mrs May has done her best to embrace
it. I have no idea whether the proposed arrangement will last five
years or a weekend. I am sure however that once Brexit negotiations
start and we are forced to face the reality of saying we wish to leave
the EU faced with the united 27 nations, several more wheels will depart
ftom the crazed vehicle that has been British poliitics since 2014.</span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-36552592644582724692017-05-28T00:38:00.000-07:002017-05-28T01:23:22.397-07:00Our candidate called<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-offset-key="74h6p-0-0"><span data-text="true">Last night about 7.30pm, a knock on the door. It was our candidate </span></span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="74h6p-1-0" spellcheck="false"><span data-offset-key="74h6p-1-0"><span data-text="true">Guy Opperman</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="74h6p-2-0"><span data-text="true"> with one of Prudhoe's newly elected councillors </span></span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="74h6p-3-0" spellcheck="false"><span data-offset-key="74h6p-3-0"><span data-text="true">Gordon Stewart</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="74h6p-4-0"><span data-text="true"> working their way around the street. In seven years as our MP Guy has worked incredibly hard and when it comes to his willingness to meet anyone and pound the tarmac, he is faultless. He has willingly worked on railway matters with myself and colleagues. There are many reasons why he should have my vote but I will be struggling. Very little said about Brexit in this election so far but north of the Border, if the SNP receive a strong show of support, our UNION is in great difficulty over it. I think the concept of Brexit is questionable at the least. And I think the way we have set it about so far, referendum and all, is totally ridiculous. I could live outside the EU but not outside the Common Market or Custom's Union. Nuances millions would have to take time to dissect. Further, in this campaign, the Social Care issue has boiled up. Here we positively benefit from the utterly different ways Scots do things. Guy asked me how will you pay for it? My reply: not with a lottery. Pretty poor show if as a society we are not willing to share the costs and the benefits to everyone. A modern carehome boarded up a mile away is the local index to the issue. It lies at the heart of Tory philosopy that people can work hard, improve themselves from the lottery of birth and pass that wealth to their children. A highly unpredictable death tax utterly undercuts that and in our community with its house prices will be deleterious. During the day I also met </span></span><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="74h6p-5-0" spellcheck="false"><span data-offset-key="74h6p-5-0"><span data-text="true">Wesley Foot</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="74h6p-6-0"><span data-text="true"> who is representing the Greens. I think he is one to watch. A smart local, a businessman himself. So that leaves Labour and the LibDems. Will their candidates knock on the door? For me, the likely final point of decision will be the Prudhoe hustings 5th June 1930 in the Anglican church.</span></span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-15781091304067290082017-05-17T23:07:00.003-07:002017-05-18T00:01:06.515-07:00The Tories offer nothing for young and old people<span data-offset-key="67lv8-0-0"><span data-text="true">Earlier this week, we were asking what do the Tories offer young people. This morning, & rather to my surprise: what do the Tories offer old people? The new manifesto is apparently about to lob a series of grenades at the older generation. A Great Christian Nation should unavoidably and indivisibly be founded on Christ's great instruction to care for those in need. The demands of old age are so variable that the only fair solution is the pooling of social care. It sounds as if we are about to fly from this and that everyone can expect in old age to have their assets reduced to £100,000. Only the filthy rich will ever hand on the wealth they have created for their children. For most people there were will be no incentive to save whatsoever. I was brought up on an utter (and I thought Tory) mantra of save and avoid debt. But of course ever since that 1983 election, it has been chip, chip chip. I said a while back that I anticipate dying in penury and some friends laughed. I am more confident than ever that if I pass the threshold of 80 this is how I will end my days; in poverty, with no wealth to give my child (whose university education I have not the faintest idea of how to pay for). All because I tried to save! If it was not for the generous social care package available in Scotland I have not the faintest idea how the last 10 years with a none too well mother in law would have been managed. The Scots do think differently. Ever since I married one, I have been told that. We are a society that cares, quizzical look at me from south of the Border, do you understand? I do. DO NOT VOTE TORY if you want a future, unless you carry half a million with you. The Brexit business has already stuffed our future for our children free in Europe and now (perhaps because she really has no idea how to pay for Brexit (hence Chancellor/PM tension yesterday)), the nation is being told, you're ordinary folk, don't try and save, just get used to reducing your expectations. Does any of this rings bells for you or am I on some strange island of my own? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39957879</span></span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-61668573788176012432017-05-05T02:40:00.003-07:002017-05-05T02:40:48.539-07:00Northumberland Local Election Result 2017<span data-offset-key="1geaj-0-0"><span data-text="true">So what explains the Northumberland result? A nest of things, some external, some self induced created the perfect storm for Labour. I am sure the larger Brexit factor and the Corbyn leadership played a role. But they far from account for this. It must be said the Conservatives worked very hard. In Prudhoe their two candidates had been making a difference for months. In Tynedale in general the notices in the Courant affair will undoubtedly had an impact. Substantially the Valley has felt whether it comes to Roads, Planning, Schools, utterly neglected. Don't forget the Post 16 School Travel Row and that impacts beyond Tynedale. The Tories say they will re-instate the payments. A major matter through the county has been the County Hall removal. How could this make friends? Removed to a town without even a railway station or early prospect of one. Again the Tories promise to reverse this. At the end of the day the Tories cannot simply produce a majority administration and going forward it will be fascinating to see who they team with and then whether their programme retains their commitments and how they get paid for. But fair doos, I congratulate Northumberland's Tories on a great result and I look forward to hearing what Mr Corbyn has done by end of day.</span></span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3271278840027815581.post-71658066749451361782017-04-19T10:50:00.000-07:002018-01-09T23:56:24.036-08:00Railfreight and the Explosion Musuem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Freight! This is rail freight. Each of these inert mines in the magazine at the Explosion museum in Gosport is on a narrow gauge wagon (not those floating sky high in the roof area of course). This was Monday 10th April 2017 during Aunt Anne's funeral wake. It was not my idea to hold this in the Explosion Museum but it was a dammed good idea. The Navy based catering was excellent. The views superb. Whoever has displayed this museum has had a keen sense of the surreal. The int</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">ernal architecture and subject matter lend themselves to this. In these uncertain times, when we all urged to loyalty, and pulling together (as you do in a harbour), it is difficult to strike the balance between being a good team person, never wanting to disappoint, but somehow deep down in the heart feeling that the nation has taken corporate leave of its senses and not really being totally convinced that we will recover them on June 8th. I hope we do but I suspect my fading years will all be about enjoying Brexit, rediscovering how great it is to pour scorn on the neighbours and their plans. Portsmouth is a wonderful place to get a handle on this. The Mary Rose is a lasting testimony to the practice of Euroscepticism in action. Whilst the Victory shows the extent of the victory possible against wrong headed continental thought. Behind Portsmouth (and I had not seen any of this before) the Portsdown line of forts (and Fort Nelson) which is open to the public are simply breath-taking. Fort Nelson reminded me how the cult of the volunteer and the amateur (the Victorian Militias) underpin so much of British life. The true Brit cannot be confined by rule and process and that was the European mistake! (or so we imagine for the narrative). Anyway providence is remarkable, my short break to the heart of the British Navy is within the week followed up by the unexpected (to everyone but<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=719763925" href="https://www.facebook.com/andrew.blane1" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Drew Blane</a>) call to election arms. The lady in Bristol (was'nt it?) sounded a bit put out. I don't know if I am put out or not. I do know, really know, we have to get beyond the last four years somehow, and I know who I blame for the last four years and it is not actually Mr Corbyn!</span>robertatforsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04316299884670781392noreply@blogger.com0