Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Great Plum wrote:(Can I get myself out of this? )

Maybe. Can't think of any other stupid engine questions so I think you've got away with it.

Great Plum wrote:

Ruthie-Baby wrote:They do still have an engine then??

Yes but not an 'engine' as in 'Thomas the Tank Engine'

(Can I get myself out of this? )

Some of our trains have the wondrous double Fairlie engines - double ended steam locomotives. Now if they go into Thomas mode and you put a face on one end - what goes at the other?

Did you know that it is an Old Blue responsible for publicising Thomas in the (?)80s ? Diana Scott (7s) married Christopher Awdry (son of The Reverend WW) and realised that the family were sitting on a gold mine. At that time, each year there were just a few of the titles available in small books. Since then the market has been transformed as the whole world knows!

I assume that you must work for the Festiniogg (or however it is spelt...)

Was Diana Scott the one that made a fortune when she sold Thomas and co to who ever a few years ago?

Ouch!

Great Plum wrote:I assume that you must work for the Festiniogg (or however it is spelt...)

Was Diana Scott the one that made a fortune when she sold Thomas and co to who ever a few years ago?

Correct in your assumption, but wrong doubling of letters. It is the Ffestiniog Railway Company, my husband is a very keen supporter and when he retired we decided to live in this beautiful part of the world. Gwynedd would not employ me as a maths teacher as my Welsh is not good enough, so I now work in the finance department of the railway - that way I don't take work home the way I would if I was still teaching!

I don't know how much money Diana made on selling Thomas. We have stopped having dealings with them after a few Thomas days. We now do our own things.

hey marty,

since you have done this type of archaeology coursework before,
can you tell me what type of practical investigation you did?

I have gone down to the station, and looked at the "old yard", and gone to look at the guildford line.

However, i do not know how to classify this type of archaeological investigation? ie. is it a fieldwalk? or some kind of excavation?

thanks.

Moulam,
Have you looked at:
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stat ... ndex.shtml

I also suggest you visit the Horsham Public Library and ask for help. There used to be a magazine called "BR Illustrated" which ran a couple of articles in the early 1990s on CH station.

Also ask the Librarian in Horsham if they know of any rail buffs who might be able to help.

Moulam wrote:hey marty,

since you have done this type of archaeology coursework before,
can you tell me what type of practical investigation you did?

I have gone down to the station, and looked at the "old yard", and gone to look at the guildford line.

However, i do not know how to classify this type of archaeological investigation? ie. is it a fieldwalk? or some kind of excavation?

thanks.

Moulam
It's not technically an excavation unless you take a shovel. And it's customary these days to have Tony Robinson present. No, it's a field walk. I took a camera with me and photographed what I could (seem to remember it being quite overgrown). I found a load of old food cans and some rusty rails which I might have cited as 'evidence of human occupation and migration'. Just say what you see and then deduce from that what you think went on there, trying to use as much archaeological phrasing as you can. You have the added luxury that there is literature and photos of the place before it was destroyed (if you look in the right place) so you needn't even draw any wild conclusions - the info's there if you look. You can find out what was there and see if there's any existing evidence of it remaining. What evidence remains is the archaeology of it. Simple eh?