davidaward wrote:Having a railway interest helped my Uni application, it gave me something to write about on my CV, not too many can sayit certainly stands us out as being interesting and individual people, how many could say they have
Driven and fired a Black 5
Interest in Photography and long archive library of pictures
Large Model Railway Collection
Member of Several Societies
Travel around a lot
Files of my Work Available for Download nationally.
All these are linked to my intial railway interest.
A flipping good CV there. I wish I could have done such things. I spend my lecture hours spotting and being a lazy prat though, so it wouldn't make much difference to me.
Where did you fire and drive the Black 5?
Project H2P
Developing Hereford to London Paddington for MSTS. Due this autumn.
222004 wrote:Where did you fire and drive the Black 5?
On the Severn Valley with 45110 (see AVATAR, thats me on the footplate). Great day and would highly recommend it to anyone. I have enjoyed the experience so much I am volunteering there in the summer
Can't remember if I said this in my post, but I don't think I did and I can't be bothered to trawl back and find it, but when I applied for University I put on my personal statement about my interests in railways and buses and some of the things I had done in relation to this. I only really put it down as I have few other interests and by not putting any would have made me seem very boring. I had interviews at two of the Universities I had applied to, East Anglia and Newcastle, and both times was shoced to find that the person interviewing me was interested in transport. The one at Newcastle was interested in railways, and was asking me about the GCR in Loughborough and how easy it was to find from the main line station as he was planning on visiting, and telling me about railways in that area. We also talked about my journey up by GNER, and how when I had come up a few months before for the open day it had been a bit of a disaster and I and the 4 friends I was with were ovr an hour late (158 failed at Stamford near Peterborough but but got going again, just missed connection and had to wait for next train, change at Doncaster, Newcastle train half an hour late at Doncaster and lost more time due to "technical problems", AKA the 91 running blunt end first). At the UEA a week later the person interviewing me was more interested in buses, and was asking me about the bus I was a shareholder of and about a transport museum at Lowestoft which I had mentioned that I had helped out at and was a member of (regular holidays in that area) as he lived in Lowestoft and had never visited, but wanted to. In both cases I think that it helped me to get fairly decent offers even though my predicted grades wern't that good, as at least from their point of view I would be a valuble and interesting member of their University. Just shows that their are people like us hidden in all sorts of places.
Actually, some of my friends struggle to believe that I'm into trains, the odd people. If I then, in a bid to prove my veracity, start to recite the names of the Deltics in order, they have no way of knowing whether I'm making it up or not... Ho hum, what do you do?
My boss is quasi-secretly into bird-watching (yeah, consider the Benny Hill jokes done), and seems much more coy about this than I am about my taste for the diesel-powered...
My suspicion is actually that a lot of people are much more interested in railways than they'll admit to - and if someone like me who doesn't give a proverbial for stereotypes brings up the conversation, they find it oddly liberating to be able to talk about it!!!
And always remember that everyone is entitled to be an anorak about one thing in their life...
222004 wrote:Cool! I assume that was on the course that lets you learn how to drive a steam engine? If so, I may try it, although driving a Class 50 would be fun!
I'll definately look into those courses though!
The SVR Do diesel driving courses too on classes 42/50 or 52
