Leighton Logs – www.leightonlogs.org
The "Leighton logs" first started in 2002 and has grown with the amount of available material we have put out over the years. We now have a web team of all ages and varied interests supplying material which has seen the "logs" grow to a "unique" local site status!..
We welcome contributions and feedback to the "logs". File sizes up to 1.3mg seem fine, although all images on the logs are reduced down to speed up the web displays and discourage copying without permission.
Our coverage extends well beyond the Leighton area, we have featured views from Egpyt and even Syria to date but the majority of user feedback is normally on our classic "localish" 1970 and 80’s views.
Afraid you fans of "Voyagers", "Pendolino’s" and "shed’s" won’t find much interest in the Leighton logs as they are of little interest to our readers, except when they fail!
We also welcome loco histories, in fact any old and current gen – Most material will be used and we always credit the supplier. I am in the process of building a huge local database of all known unusual workings from 1957 onwards, so every snippet helps.
Email us initially at nicholas.rossATsurreycc.gov.uk
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About your webmaster - I am of Dunstable origins, but moved to Leighton in 1980. Have also spent time living/working in Swansea and Ireland. It seems from 1968 onward I have spent half my life either at the lineside, or travelling on our railways, apparently, its my Grandparents fault, bless their souls.
Currently married, with 2 not so young lads allocated. For a while yet, I hope to remain in a Transport related career, as I have done, all my working life. Other interests include cycling and a growing love of hill walking. A flail on the top of Cairngorm has it’s plus points.
As the website coverage may well show, I have always always been a fan of any of the "small Sulzers", had one or two "roarer" miles, and when no "roarers" were around, a "seven" was always the best "AC "power home. Over the years the occasional "spoof" has gone on the "logs", to counter the sometimes deadly serious style adopted by the railway press, some websites and some "enthusiasts".
Had a few articles published in "Traction" over the years, but any spare keyboard time these days is normally spent on this website or various databases.