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PLEASE NOTE: I am a single-issue Wikipedian on the whole, unless I find some glaring problems on other articles that I believe need to be rectified on my travels. But in the main, I will mostly be charting the history of various steam locomotive classes, especially those of the Southern Railway.
Greetings! Welcome to my talk pages on Wikipedia! Before I get down to business, I wish to explain that the rather garish colour scheme is meant to replicate the Malachite green used on the Bulleid Pacific steam locomotives just after the Second World War. As you can probably tell, I'm from Wales (Oliver Bulleid's mother was Welsh...), but I'm proud to be a keen supporter of all things British. Steam has been a passion of mine for twenty years, and I delight in sharing my knowledge with my fellow man, and Wikipedia provides a platform for me to do this. I am currently working on improving British Southern Railway articles, as most of them are in desperate need of both expansion and improvement. Please feel free to look around my projects...
My pride and joys include: SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes, SR Merchant Navy class, SR Leader class, SR Q1 class,SR Q class, SR Z Class, LSWR N15 class, SR V "Schools" class, SR Lord Nelson class, LSWR Class M7 and several more. Inevitably, more are on the way!
My interests are fairly diverse, and include military vehicles, hill-walking, model-making, and of course, railways.
I have also attained a BA (Hons) in History at Swansea University, and I wish to apply the approach of the historian to Wikipedia. I am currently undertaking an MA in Modern History.
Finally, I am an active participant on the National Preservation railway forum, and enjoy visiting the standard gauge Heritage Railways of Britain, and am an enthusiast of the Southern Railway due to the sheer variety of locomotive classes operated in a relatively small area.
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