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will do Jane, many thanks Paul
May 25, 2011 @ 9:24 pm
Dear Paul,
It would be very good to meet and have a conversation about regional labour renewal and about the railways. If you are ever in London that would be great but I am willing to come to Yorkshire if you are not coming down. It is important to build a poplar and genrous movement for the common good,
best wishes,
Maurice Glasman
May 29, 2011 @ 1:48 pm
Hello Maurice
Good to hear from you. Yes, be really good to meet up. I get down to London quite often and have free travel on some routes so easy enough, though you’d be welcome up here. Let me know when would suit you. I’m in London on Monday June 6th with a bit of time around 1500, but might be tight. So let me know when’s best for you. Be interested to hear about your work in London community politics as well as the wider ‘Blue Labour’ project.
cheers
Paul
May 29, 2011 @ 5:58 pm
Evening Paul, please add me to the list when you are sending out your weekly Salvo Newsletter
Speak Soon
Garry
June 27, 2011 @ 8:10 pm
hello Paul. please add me to your weekly salvo mail list. i was at the jubilee rooms SOW, the one with a guide dog from STORM and friends of Castleton Station. good website accessible with screen readers, keep up the good work. Frank and Lewis GDBA and bar (grin)
July 8, 2011 @ 10:03 am
Thanks Frank
Good to hear from you – you’re now on the list
cheers
Paul
July 8, 2011 @ 11:08 am
hi, Paul. Good to come across your website (by acccident). Please add me to your Salvo mailing. I may have a nasty suspicious mind, but I suspect that the Ordsall curve will be all we ever get of the Northern Hub, and even that has less to do with expanding capacity than with Network Rail’s long term obsession with getting TPE off the throat of Piccadilly.Am I a cynic or what ?
October 18, 2011 @ 8:54 am
Hello Paul,
Another interesting read.
I must say that I share your slight disquiet about WW2 events on heritage railways although the spectacle of SS troops and Gestapo strutting about fortunately seems to be a thing of the past. I do some volunteer work on our local railway, the splendid Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway and we have established a small museum that I help to run that tells the story of the role played by the railway during the war and how it recovered afterwards with some interesting photos and a few relics. This has proved to be of great interest and as a new venture we also now run occasional 1940s trains.
These are booked in advance by coach companies as part of a package for people staying in a particular local hotel and have been very successful.
The group – the last party comprised 43 people on holiday from the Isle of Wight – travel on a special train from Hythe to New Romney where we show them round the museum and a colleague and I tell them about the impact of the war on both the railway and Romney Marsh generally then they continue to Dungeness for a 1940s lunch then back to New Romney for tea and buns and then to Hythe where the coach collects them for return to the hotel. The lunch is spam, baked beans and mashed potato with mugs of tea but one lady complained because there wasn’t a vegetarian alternative. To be frank, we’d never thought of that but I did point out that, from what my Mum told me, people ate whatever they could get during those difficult times. During the 1940s weekend we have a very good dance band with dancers doing Lindy Hopping, typical 1940s food and people dressed in period clothes with an emphasis on the decade rather than the war itself so it’s all jolly fun whilst carefully avoiding glorifying war or somehow making it all seem rather glamorous.
Ultimately, as you so rightly say, it’s all about generating much – needed cash for the railway.
I think that the answer to the shed code quiz is Sowerby Bridge (25E).
Kind regards,
John
November 7, 2011 @ 8:47 pm
Latest Salvo. Odd railway journey: Bowling (West Dunbartonshire) to Bat and Ball (Sevenoaks)
December 3, 2011 @ 8:15 pm
Hi Paul
Just found your website, good stuff. Totally agree with your article on HST2. What options are there now for the likes of us who still want to oppose ‘the emperors new clothes’! (and are definatly not Chiltern Nimby’s) that could push a positive alternative agenda to spend £30 billion (or even a part of that) on a co-ordinated rail strategy that includes a range of local rail links, stations on existing lines, freight improvement, and maybe a bit of status for that once real long distance cross country line Glasgow/ Manchester / Edinburgh / Newcastle to Bristol, Cardiff, The South coast etc, now relegated to diesel DMU’s with a trolley on a 400 mile journey. I ask you.
thanks Paul for that rant, but if you’ve got ideas?
Dan Alliband (Newcastle upon Tyne)
January 11, 2012 @ 12:12 pm
Thanks Dan
Still lots of scope and I think the the consensus may start to fall apart…
Paul
January 18, 2012 @ 2:05 pm
Hi,
interesting stuff. can you add me to your email list, please?
January 17, 2012 @ 9:30 am
Good luck with the Foundation. This is very timely given Campaign for the English Regions (CfER) is again active around a link up with Unlock Democracy. Time for all democratic regionalists to gather…..
February 7, 2012 @ 9:07 pm
Hi Paul,
Wondered what your thoughts are regarding ultra-light rail. Preston Trampower has just launched a share offer for its Guild Line project. See: http://www.prestontrampower.co.uk/
I, for one, would like to see ULR given a chance – beyond the Stourbridge Junction – Stourbridge Town shuttle.
Anyway, just thought I’d give it a nudge in your direction….
All the best
Bob
February 13, 2012 @ 9:33 pm
Dear Paul,
Just read your excellent article in THE LANCASHIRE about Lanky Poetry which I am a great fan of and recite.
I would like to follow this With an order for your book, Lancashire Romantic Radical to your Home address.
Regards
Doug Ashmore
February 27, 2012 @ 11:58 am
Congratulations on your victory (45712 ) in Golcar.
Carry on the good work and make Golcar ( 45721 )
Look forward to meeting you in the future.
Colne Valley result disappointing but Ridgeway has a strong personal vote.
Well done again Paul
Rowland Ellis party member Linthwaite.
May 4, 2012 @ 10:27 am
Will apply my 45720 spirit without being 45727. I’m still a 45660-y in the game but with 45731 I will be 45710 to my constituents!
May 7, 2012 @ 8:54 pm
Hi paul just heard about Hannah mitchell foundation on sunday politics. we met years ago when I was president of Worksop Trade Council now defunct in relation to railways keep me informed about things looks interesting Steven raison
June 24, 2012 @ 11:01 am
Paul, I am enjoying my reading of ‘Lancashire’s Romantic Radical’ and ‘Socialism with a Northern Accent’ as part of my research into the Labour Church movement.
My interested is in Allen Clarke’s involvement in the Labour Church, and would like to be able to track down his ‘For a Man’s Sake’ with its references to “The Equality Church”.
I am grateful for any assistance that you can offer to me.
With good wishes, Neil
November 7, 2012 @ 7:42 pm
Congratulations and every good wish for the coming year!
Jane McGrath
November 20, 2014 @ 12:08 pm
Hi Paul
What a blast from the past your name is ! You and I both attended Thornleigh together and as train enthusiasts visited quite a few places including Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury and beyond together, spending many an hour tracking down hard to find locomotives… Just thought I would say Hi and glad to see your interest hasn’t waned !
Cheers
January 20, 2015 @ 4:45 pm
Hello Paul!,
Please may I have, when they are produced, a copy of your ‘Ilustrated Weekly Salvo’, please?
Thank you,
Ben Walsh,
Cambridge.
March 12, 2015 @ 4:47 pm
Greetings from the gardening group at Poulton-le-Fylde station
Nice to see your photograph – the daffodils are in full show now.
I found the Tender documents for Northern & T.P.E. franchises quite illuminating but there are some’conclusions’ hidden in there which could alarm. The Blackpool to Manchester airport service to transfer to Northern? Oh dear. I also note that Wyre Borough Council made no submission to the executive. What hope for restoring the Fleetwood
line with that level of interest from the Council.
On a lighter Female note, Didn’t Horwich works have a petite but efficient loco, with a narrow frame and a military discipline called ‘Wren’ ? She was a bit shy, never still and got plenty of whistles from the ‘big boys’ in for repair!
Regards, Iain.
March 23, 2015 @ 4:30 am
”Train Station” Could be for a camel train, lorry train or horse train so it must be a railway station !
July 20, 2017 @ 8:47 pm
Please sign me up for your weekly Salvo. I am a Lib-dem councillor on Penwortham Town Council, not far from you, plus a retired railwayman with 31 years experience on the rails.
October 5, 2017 @ 7:43 pm
will do!
October 16, 2017 @ 10:33 am