Another Train

Yes, yes, yes I admit it I have a passion for trains and yes it started at a very young age. My grandmother used to live in a house that had the railway line run right past her back yard. I remember standing out there one day with my uncle Steve and watch a train go by and at that point I made a decision. I decided right there and then that I was going to be a train driver. Yep at four years old my career path was set! I left high school at the age of sixteen and I joined British Railways as a Youth Training Scheme Trainee. After a hiring freeze and a couple of interviews I finally got to be a Train Drivers Assistant, which was at the time the apprenticeship to become a train driver. After working at Waterloo and Euston I got my promotion to become a train driver at Colchester, one of the depots local to where I lived. I spent 6 months in training and I was there, I had achieved my childhood dream of becoming a train driver by the age of 21. I did that until 1999 when I moved to California. But in the 10 years I have lived here I have never lost my love or passion for trains, but now I just get to watch them go by. This photograph was taken at Hunter Park in Riverside where a club has a large model railway running around the park and offers rides for free a couple of Sunday's every month.