Mine comes from the class 3R (201?) DEMUs which called at my local station, Farnborough North, on the Reading-Redhill line every hour.

These had a power car and intermediate trailer from a disbanded Hastings set, and the driving trailer from an EPB-style EMU. The latter was very obviously wider than the other slab-sided Hastings-gauge cars, hence a tadpole-like appearance. The driving trailer was locked out of use, and was mostly used for parcels. The two narrow cars contained a 500hp engine and about the same number of seats as a 121 bubble car in a 2+2 layout.

They were numbered 1201-1206, and it was not unusual to see at least five of the six in one day. It was a cause for great excitement when anything else turned up on a passenger service on this line (except for the 0902 to Reading which was a 33+three Mk1s and a van). When the units were withdrawn, the EPB driving trailers were attached to the remaining 2-car Hampshire (2H) sets, which they matched perfectly, to make more 3-car sets.

Mine is my nickname from work......

Because I have a love for porkpies, and have one nearly every day for my lunch

My surname is Hacker an my nickname at school and later was pronounced häckmän in German. On some mailing systems "hacker" is not allowed as an email adress be it my name or not so i switched to häckmän which is not to be spelt in English and therefore not on the net either. Instead of chosing "hackman" which would have been the correct pronounciation, too, I took the german transliteration "haeckmaen" and just kept on using and using it at several opportunities...

upnick    ..........    comes from my liking for Union Pacific   railroads & Nick  is my second name     

Not a difficult one really for me. I am a padre (military word for vicar/chaplain) in the RAF, and I'm Irish. Simples!!!

Quote from: Irish Padre on March 21, 2011, 10:48:22 PM
Not a difficult one really for me. I am a padre (military word for vicar/chaplain) in the RAF, and I'm Irish. Simples!!!

sir,
with respect,
1/   did you join the R.A.F. to get nearer your boss

2/ does the officers mess carry enough of the lovely black stuff to keep you happy or do you have to sneak into the other ranks bar to get it

I'll take the black stuff wherever I can get it Cloughie!!

And my boss is always close ; not even the mighty Typhoon could get me any closer to him!!!

And it's padre, not sir!!! Fine for that - one pint of Uncle Arthur!!!

I`ll pay the fine only if I can have one as well

No objection to that!

Quote from: BROADTRAIN1979 on March 21, 2011, 11:39:56 PM

Quote from: porkie on March 21, 2011, 07:56:50 PM
Mine is my nickname from work......

Because I have a love for porkpies, and have one nearly every day for my lunch

Now porkie your my kinda food

have you got relations in wigan, porkie

Oldrailbug mmm well I am 68 this year so i'm getting old, railbug ha been one of them since I used to go train spotting at Longbridge on the Birminghan to Bristol line in the 1957, that was up until my parents dragged me off to Australia in 1957, still miss home.

Mine is because I'm a Tractor Boy (Ipswich Town Football Club supporter for non footballers among us). I was a season ticket holder for along time until 2 seasons ago when I moved to Rugby, Warwickshire and found the price of petrol was far to high to travel home for every game. So with the new found time on my hand at weekends I turned back to the hobby of Model railways and enjoy it more now than when I was younger as I have slightly more money and don't have to save paper round money or wait for my Birthday or Christmas for a new rake of wagons.

Ooh and Matt is my name!

That's me Tractor Matt (oooh arrh)

Mine came from my kids friends, there is usually "Big" in front of it. Hence BPJ

Mine's quite simple: First Name is Oliver, so Ollie for short. And 3440 City Of Truro is my all time favourite Engine.

Ta-Da

Ollie

There are so many really good usernames keep them coming  

next i think we should have mug shots just to see who is who