Great news att! 
hope all goes well, who you with?
Heres an oldie lads.
Cheers Marc.
Hi Mark,here is the articles you wanted in your pm mate.
Hope thats ok Mark
Cheers Marc
Blimey! These bring back memories! Many thanks Marc for your hard work and time finding them, you must have quite a collection.
The āLā reg one in the July 1995 mag (top) was my last one on Radcliffes. Cracking motor, loads of room. In the end I was doing a round trip from North England to Italy each week, so it clocked up some clicks in the end.
Thanks again!
Regards,
Mark.
bubbleman:
Heres an oldie lads.
Cheers Marc.
Nice one bubblemanā¦there you go brookie, thats how i remember Radcliffes!! 
Thanks for the pic bubbleman, yep, that was the old guvners motors.
Hello bullit, bring back memories for you too! I remember when I was a drivers mate then as a young van driver in the early / mid '80s seeing those motors about, lots at Shepperds Bush etc, never thought Iād work for the man years later!
Thanks all of you for sorting so much out, great stuff !
Cheers!
Mark.
I really think that this thread is topā¦ 
NIce to see so much history in my localityā¦
Brookie, what are you doing now? Looks as though you had the lions share going back to the āgoldenā age of truckingā¦
Memories indeed.
att:
I really think that this thread is topā¦
NIce to see so much history in my localityā¦
Brookie, what are you doing now? Looks as though you had the lions share going back to the āgoldenā age of truckingā¦
Memories indeed.
Hi att, after Mr Radcliffe decided to call it a day (just couldnāt compete with our Eastern European bretheren), I went on a fridge firm doing supermarket stuff, south - east England only, multi-drop, lots of handballing, loads of problems parking a 40ft trailer in central London, awful job. After a couple of years of it a mate of mine whoās a train driver showed me an advert for train drivers in our local rag. I went for it and here I am 8 years later! Me and the missus have got three kids now (mustāve been being home more often ), so couldnāt really go back to long distance or even lorry driving, the money is not bad on the trains. However, Iām not a railwayman, never have been, Iām a lorry driver first and foremost who happens to be driving trains now! There is a few ex-HGV on the trains, āoutsidersā hear us talking sometimes and donāt believe some of the stories! I think because theyāve never done it they donāt understand, itās a lifestyle that gets deep inside, literally in yer blood! It was all Iād done before, so itās hard to lose the mindset for it. I miss the job alot, I know times have changed, but I still look at artic drivers now and feel a bit green!
Anyway, enough of my ramblings, Iāll only start getting all nostalgic!! Itās great to chat on the forums, at least I feel Iām in touch with it still.
Cheers guys,
Mark.
brookie:
ā¦the money is not bad on the trainsā¦
Understatement of the year there Brookie!!!
Heard you guys get loads, plus free travel, plus loads of time off, plus a nice fat pension, plus, plusā ā ?
Hi bullit ! Ok, I put me hands up! Yep, the money is pretty good, especially for down here, Iāve just finished work now, but started at 03.30 (I know, I know, only a 9 hour day, instead of 15!!). trouble is on here you canāt pull in for a kip!! Also, shoot a red light on here and itās more than points on yer license! 
. You wouldnāt believe some of the āold handsā on the railway though, they moan when they finish 15 MINUTES late, or less! I have to remind them of the āreal worldā outside, plus the fact I was once 2 WEEKS late getting home, missed my mates wedding and me and the missus moving into our first house together That was enough ammunition for my wife to remind me of why she likes me driving trains instead now
Mark.
You must have nearly as much time off as sayā¦erā¦umā¦firefighters!!!
Just dont tell TN member āFuseā!!..and what ever you do, dont do any casual work for Stobbarts!!!
Mind you, on Ā£50`000 a year I dont suppose you need to!!!
Ā£50,000 Iād like that!!, On that money Iād even buy me own truck and just run it for fun!
The salary rumours arenāt true, I tell ya!! But ti is more than a couple of hauliers I could think of
brookie
did they sell the man around 94 95
cant rememer if k14 or k17 but pretty sure was k14
remember around early 95 chris hayward had it just plane same colour and brian was driving it to munich or austria every week
based in swindon but he took it home to bristol every week
normally on the train on a sunday
SPS2378:
did they sell the man around 94 95
cant rememer if k14 or k17 but pretty sure was k14
remember around early 95 chris hayward had it just plane same colour and brian was driving it to munich or austria every week
based in swindon but he took it home to bristol every week
normally on the train on a sunday
Yep, K14,it mustāve been around '95, I then took over L14 RAD until he packed it all in. He drove it for a bit until he finished. I must admit L14 was a better motor of the 2.
Shame it had to end, I loved the job.
Regards,
Mark.