Rambling Railwayman's Recollections - Epilogue 

Awesome Geoff, fantastic video's wonderful to hear about your life on the railways and see many of the trains that I grew up with in the 1980's.

Thanks for all the memories, Geoff. It's definitely a world I wish I'd been part of.

Thank you so much Geoff for taking the trouble to produce this excellent series. I thoroughly enjoyed every single episode. I felt quite sad when I realised you had reached the final chapter. It had become essential viewing! Thank you again & best wishes.

Excellent collection of memories of the railway. Thanks Pete

Thank you. Very enjoyable to sit back and listen to.

Thanks for the great series! and thank you for the service you gave to the public.

An absolutely outstanding series Geoff. Well done. Extremely enjoyable and brought back many memories. Thank you!

While I haven't seen all the videos in this series, the two I have watched have been fascinating especially the mid to very late 1970's as that was when I lived at Highcliffe and often watched trains at Hinton Admiral station

Thanks for posting. A mine of interesting information about a collection of excellent photographs presented in a very professional manner.

Very good. I've enjoyed watching your series of railway ramblings. Thanks for sharing them. 👍

Many thanks to you as well, Geoff. Excellent content, bring back many memories from "back in the day".

Thanks for posting these recollections. Not only am I a lifelong Railway enthusiast, I’m currently based at Woking (on the Gateline) so have found the series both entertaining and informative.

Thoroughly enjoyed all of your videos, thank you for taking the time to share your recollections with us. As a child of the 70s growing up in South Wales my only exposure to the southern region was watching the trains go past my Aunts house between Epsom and Ashtead which I remember seemed to be all SUBs and EPBs which seemed very exotic! Your videos have made me dig out my Motive Power recognition 2. EMUs book to learn more about I would have been looking at and all the other SR units of that era.

Yes Geoff as I've said before, a great series and the content detail is superb. It brings back many happy memories for me at Southside.

I'm a British railfan from Canada and I very much enjoyed all your videos. Please add more of them when you can!

What a wonderful series of videos. Again the memories they have conjured up are priceless and I am grateful. Thank you Geoff, your hard work is greatly appreciated. Hmm, I wonder what’s next? Can’t wait! All the best. Simon

Another excellent video. I was a Secondman at Woking from 1985 to 1987 and my favourite bit of this is where the escape route from the mess room via the kitchen window is mentioned. Fred Garnham opened this window and shut it behind me so I could get away when Peter Bunce who was the Foreman wouldn't let me go home early! 😉

Thanks so much for your excellent videos. They bring back so many memories from when I was a nipper. I lived in Farnborough and Andover, and saw a lot of varied Diesel and electric stock in my spotting years. Some of my earliest memories were of the maroon Warships passing through Andover. When I lived in Farnborough I had the choice of visiting the main line station with its mix of EMUs and Locos. I could also go to Farnborough North and see the “Tadpoles” & and the occasional Crompton on the boat train. Finally there was Frimley, with its stream of EMUs. I find your experiences of driving really interesting and it clearly reveals what it must have been like to work for BR. Your stories are wonderful & the pictures are fantastic. I understand so much more what it must be like to drive a train & the knowledge needed of the routes and also the train itself.

Wonderful. You read so well and, though I have both Rambling Railwayman books, it is lovely to have them read to me again. Thank you. Tell us some more about your driving days and the Westinghouse brake.

Great set of films Geoff.

That shot with the 33 and Battersea is unreal, one for the wall that

When I was about eight years old my school class used to play football in a park by Radipole Lake near Weymouth. We'd hear a craclkling noise and we'd yell "The new diesel!" then 10001 (I think it was 10001 and not 10000) would pass with a passenger train making a very loud noise as if it were continually backfiring.. That would have been around1953. It was painted black at that time. All the other trains would be hauled by SR or WR steam locos.

Brilliant Geoff I can remember all them blokes at Woking when I had my PNB breaks 👍👍

Love these Videos

Great insights of the railway and what a full career you had. Thank-you so much for sharing it with us, Geoff.

Great set of photos. Thanks for sharing. In fact I think I've probably seen half these before on Flickr, but didn't realise they were all taken by you!

Geoff: thank you very much for all the videos. It's interesting that your entire career was triggered by our Northmead classroom proximity to the Woking/Guildford line. I have many happy memories of that period including trainspotting at Guildord and Woking. I still have a great interest in trains and found your career videos very interesting and a glimpse into a world the public was probably not all that aware of but who totally relied on your skills and knowledge as a cleaner, fireman, driver and subsequent trainer. I will continue to monitor your channel for any future videos. Sincerely, your school pal Nick Burbidge,

hi, great video.do you remember electric locos 2001.2002 and 2003.i remember them on the Newhaven boat train as a child.sadly all 3 of them went for scrap in 1969

Thanks very much for such an interesting, informative and entertaining series. I was wondering Geoff, out of all the different types that you have driven, was their a favourite of yours ?

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