I'm truly weird on this point. I was born in 1948 (August of that year): being a great one for rail nostalgia, I strongly wish that my parents had got round to having me just a little bit sooner; so that I could say, and have the knowledge, that I'd been alive and in the world before 1/1/1948, in the era of the Big Four. Am aware that rationally, this makes no sense -- an infant a few months old, or less, is totally unaware of such things; but "per gut" as distinct from "per head", it bugs me a little.To make you even older. Not only don't I remember it as I wasn't born in 1971, but you'd have to add my age to my oldest child's age for me to have been born by the time that it happened, let alone remember it (which would require a further few more years to be added).
Now whilst I was alive when the Deltics were finally withdrawn from BR services I would have been too young to remember them even if I went on one.
Sorry to all those who now feel a lot older having read this post.
Cheer up...I was born in 1945.
ETA: the forums' quoting mechanism drives me mad -- the slightest mis-step is liable to bring chaos. After @The Ham's quoted post: I was trying to quote @Xenophon PCDGS's response, "Cheer up...I was born in 1945." -- but something seems to have gone wrong, and that quote doesn't seem to be showing as and where it was meant to. Or does it show after all? -- AAAAUUGHHH !!! Perhaps I should wish rather, to have been born in the Middle Ages: might have coped better with technology as of then.
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