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 now my Official Business Page, for yes, I am now a Limited Company: Neil Worthington Limited.

Page 2 is the original site for the Sandtoft Transport Centre, "Home of the Trolleybus". Now known as "The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft", the Museum has had its own, rather more professional site for several years.

Page 3 is also about transport and again was once the original site for Sheffield Bus Museum, "Saving Sheffield's Transport Heritage". This is another Museum that's changed its name, and moved off to Rotherham. Now known as "South Yorkshire Transport Museum", it covers all kinds of transport from its new home at Aldwarke, and of course has its own, rather more professional site as befits its new status.

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. Will I ever get round to scanning and uploading the photographs? Time alone will tell.

Page 5 is yet another site that has long 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!" They do of course now have their own, rather more professional site.

Page 6 is just pictures: sundry items of rail freight equipment from the former Soviet Railways, photographed in the Republic of Azerbaijan. And why not?

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. It's a bit hit and miss, but it also has links to other people's rather more professional sites, such as the excellent Beer In The Evening.

Page 8 remains the official site of the North Manchester branch of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale. One of these days they too will have their own, rather more professional site, but it's not looking imminent.

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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