Today is a significant anniversary: a date that is important, even if they don’t realise it, for thousands of workers, school pupils, shoppers and scallies without tickets who rely on the train to get them from A to B (where A & B are both in Merseyside).
So what I’m about to say, I say on behalf of the people of Merseyside. Every family going to Southport on a day trip; every office worker trudging out of Moorfields on a rainy day; every shopper laden with M&S bags dodging the crowds at Liverpool Central; every racegoer counting his winnings (or losses!) on the train home from Aintree.
On behalf of all of them, I say: HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY MERSEYRAIL!
Now, say hello to the first passenger on the Merseyrail Underground, marvel at the original Merseyrail network map, or help to save one of the old Merseyrail trains.
A note about these pictures: The Class 503 image is in the public domain. The Class 508 image is by Chris McKenna and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license versions 2.5.
2nd May 2007 at 3:16 pm
I love creative commons licensing for photographs. I have a university class I teach part of that covers a bunch of stuff, and one of the things is Photoshop. Being able to just direct people to the flickr creative commons search is awesome.
6th May 2007 at 4:51 pm
Back when I first started the blog, I did consider releasing the whole thing under a CC licence.
But I didn’t. So there.
7th May 2007 at 5:20 am
THAT’S BECAUSE YOU HATE FREEDOM FREEDOM HATER
Or, y’know. Not.