RMweb Premium 31A Posted March 27, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27, 2016 Happy retirement, Tim - I think the pension fund has enough left for one more! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted March 27, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27, 2016 Greetings Cap'n. May I now send you the to do list for SOSJ? Choose any 6 out of the dozens of exciting tasks. Free sausages and Pendo Bog Spotter's Notebook available on completion of tasks. Once you have successfully smuggled your cabin baggage up Sleazy Jet's gangplank then you know where we are. Also, take no notice of the naysayers, it isn't blood* freezing east of Bristol. All the very best matey. See you at the West Somerset sometime soon? Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted March 27, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27, 2016 Cap'n welcome to the club, the longer you're off the quicker it goes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted March 27, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2016 Greetings Cap'n. May I now send you the to do list for SOSJ? Choose any 6 out of the dozens of exciting tasks. Free sausages and Pendo Bog Spotter's Notebook available on completion of tasks. I wondered what SOSJ was, now I think it could be textspeak for sausages. Happy retirement, Tim. Don't worry about filling your time. I left 12 years ago and my To Do list doesn't seem to be any shorter than the day I retired. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 All the best Tim all the very best for your retirement now you've finally received your golden parsnip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted March 27, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2016 Hi Tim, Thanks for sharing your working life over the years and now go and have a splendid retirement ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted March 27, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27, 2016 The long nines will be required to offer a twenty one gun salute to mark this auspicious occasion. Enjoy it Tim. You won't know how you had the time to work. p.s. now is the ideal time to go and watch a Hamilton Academicals home game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Think how many more sausages you could buy if they paid you EVERY month! I do hope they presented him with a ceremonial sausage to mark his retirement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted March 28, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 28, 2016 All the best Tim all the very best for your retirement now you've finally received your golden parsnip. I do hope they presented him with a ceremonial sausage to mark his retirement. Ceremonial sausage and a golden parsnip? CK deserves both. From the little I have been privileged to see over more recent years here is a true gentleman, a Railwayman with a capital R, having completed service in a most under-stated manner and with a huge amount of quiet respect. There are few of Tim's kind left on today's railway. There will now be one fewer. Time and tide waits for no-one (as Tim would have discovered at Dawlish!) but his gain in leisure time is the railway's loss. And to an extent ours as we shall miss the unique input around certain events not available from any other source. Thanks also to Craig for instigating the topic. I was aware of Tim's impending retirement through other sources but most of us wouldn't perhaps have guessed he was anywhere near that milepost. Craig is another true gentleman of the railways, quiet, unassuming and thoroughly professional. Such people keep the wheels turning come rain or shine, day or night without complaint no matter what. We owe them a great debt of gratitude. Happy retirement Tim. Let's do that curry sometime. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Will retirement mean that CK has more time to sample the dubious delights of Virgin Voyagers? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ian Posted March 28, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2016 I don't think Voyagers ply their trade to Haverfordwest. Happy retirement sir, and may it be a long one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bescotbeast Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Happy Retirement Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold NHY 581 Posted March 28, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 28, 2016 Apparently a Voyager toilet is to be named after CK on April 1st at Paddington. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted March 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29, 2016 Happy retirement, Tim. Network Rail will cope without you, just not as well as before. Hoping to follow you out in a year or two. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted March 29, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 29, 2016 I had no idea this was coming up! On the occasions of actually meeting him, I've always found Tim to be a very sociable but also extremely knowledgeable and he put a lot of hard work into organising the SWAG members days at Taunton. We'll miss his 'insider information' on the modern railways and the 'individual / slightly eccentric' comments on various threads, but hopefully the modelling activities can now make a bit of a comeback & we will continue to see his interaction on here. Good luck for the future Tim! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted March 31, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 31, 2016 Happy retirement, Tim - I think the pension fund has enough left for one more! And for another in June I hope... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
caradoc Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Best Wishes Tim, thanks for all your informative posts, and please leave a little in the pension fund for me ! (Planning to do the same as you, retire from NR, before too much longer). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Retirement??!! *phew* what a relief!!! Hands up who else thought the OP Title was a sudden and unexpected Obituary... D'oh!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterbournecm Posted April 1, 2016 Author Share Posted April 1, 2016 Thanks also to Craig for instigating the topic. I was aware of Tim's impending retirement through other sources but most of us wouldn't perhaps have guessed he was anywhere near that milepost. Craig is another true gentleman of the railways, quiet, unassuming and thoroughly professional. Such people keep the wheels turning come rain or shine, day or night without complaint no matter what. We owe them a great debt of gratitude. Happy retirement Tim. Let's do that curry sometime. Aw thanks mate - the cheque is in the post! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Basically everything that's been posted previously, what else can one say that doesn't involve sausages, Virgin facilities and a town in Pembrokeshire. A heartfelt thanks Tim make the very best of your time matey Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted April 1, 2016 Share Posted April 1, 2016 Apparently a Voyager toilet is to be named after CK on April 1st at Paddington. Meanwhile, as an absorbent red carpet is rolled out at Paddington...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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