Welcome to Neil Worthington's Homepage!

This page is really just an index to the odd assortment of pages elsewhere on my various sites, plus one or two links to other folks' sites. They reflect some of the things I'm interested in - but don't assume they're my only interests in life! I just don't see the point in covering subjects that other people have already done, and done better, so I concentrate on things that weren't previously on the Web. That said, some of the things that had their first Web presence through this site now have their own dedicated sites, such as Sandtoft Transport Centre and Uncle Joe's Mint Balls.

Note that there aren't very many pictures on my site. That's partly because I've never really got the hang of using a scanner, and mainly because in cyberspace, a picture may be worth a thousand words but it takes up a heck of a lot more disk space.

OK, these are my own pages, created with my own fair hands with every tag individually typed and

Page 1 is an Introduction to the Internet, originally created for the edification of Yorkshire members of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. You'll find it makes a useful portal to a number of other sites concerned with Transport and/or the creation and maintenance of websites.

Page 2 is the original site for the Sandtoft Transport Centre, "Home of the Trolleybus".

Page 3 is also about transport, the original and still the Official Site for Sheffield Bus Museum, "Saving Sheffield's Transport Heritage".

Page 4 is about the role of Britain's railways in World War II. It began with "Junction X", the script of a wartime radio play, and has since been expanded with other features about the railways, notably Facts about British Railways in Wartime, taken from a contemporary propaganda booklet.

Page 5 is another site like Page 2 in that it has since been supplanted (or supplemented) by an official site. It's the story of Wigan's most famous export, Uncle Joe's Mint Balls: "They Keep You All Aglow!"

Page 6 is just pictures: sundry items of rail freight equipment from the former Soviet Railways, photographed in the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Page 7 is simply an index to other people's sites which provide on-line guides to real ale and pubs in different parts of Britain.

Page 8 is the official site of the North Manchester branch of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale.

Page 9 is my CV, which might interest you if you feel like building a railway station, or a freight terminal, or writing a train timetable, or looking at safety issues in transport.

And Page 10 is a short review of the railways on the island of Mallorca - in 1936 - copied from an ancient copy of The Railway Magazine.

I have in the past been a prolific contributor to Usenet, notably on uk.railway and uk.food+drink.real-ale. Lack of time and the need for discretion when discussing topics that overlap with my work interests mean that my posts are much less frequent these days, and usually confined to matters of fact. (But I do post more trenchant views occasionally under one of a clutch of pseudonyms.)

If you'd like to contact me, feel free, but please note that I am entirely comfortable with my weight, my bowels, my mortgage, my love life and all the other things that people want to change for me. For this reason, I ask you to use this link to contact me, leaving the address and subject line exactly as shown. Otherwise, messages will simply get trapped and zapped by spam filters.

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