Andy Rush RIP
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Andy Rush RIP
I regret to inform you that fellow forum member Andy Rush has passed away; the announcement coming from the GER Society Yahoo! Group.
Andy was a fount of knowledge concerning railway operation, having worked in various Control Offices on the E and NE Regions during his career, and always willing to provide substantive answers and accurate information. He was also a member of the editorial panel for the GERS Journal and his contributions both there and here will be sorely missed.
So long Andy, and thanks for all your help and advice over the years.
Andy was a fount of knowledge concerning railway operation, having worked in various Control Offices on the E and NE Regions during his career, and always willing to provide substantive answers and accurate information. He was also a member of the editorial panel for the GERS Journal and his contributions both there and here will be sorely missed.
So long Andy, and thanks for all your help and advice over the years.
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65447 I can only echo your thoughts.
I am not a GERS member, but I hope everyone here appreciates Andy's contribution to the 'knowledge'.
John
I am not a GERS member, but I hope everyone here appreciates Andy's contribution to the 'knowledge'.
John
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News came to me this morning and I'm still trying to take it in. I was expecting to see him at the Test match on Monday. He will be very sorely missed in many places and groups.
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I didn't know him personally, but had interchanged the odd messages, and greatly admired his knowledge on wagon and train formations.
Terrible shame!
Terrible shame!
Tom Foster
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Andy worked at RfD when I knew him through the 90's, and I had only recently got back in touch, through this forum. Apart from his infrastructure and operating skills he had a genius for creating amusing anagrams of colleagues' names and used his own - Nurse W Hard - in the last PM he sent me.
I am shocked by the sudden-ness; a mutual friend saw him at a train planners' reunion at York at the beginning of June. However, I had noticed that he remained silent on threads that I expected him to be able to contribute to over the last month or so.
All that knowledge lost.
Don't feel old but so many of my former B.R. colleagues of my generation that I've known, many since our youth, have passed on or are seriously ill. And I miss them!!
Merle Haggard
I am shocked by the sudden-ness; a mutual friend saw him at a train planners' reunion at York at the beginning of June. However, I had noticed that he remained silent on threads that I expected him to be able to contribute to over the last month or so.
All that knowledge lost.
Don't feel old but so many of my former B.R. colleagues of my generation that I've known, many since our youth, have passed on or are seriously ill. And I miss them!!
Merle Haggard
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That is very sad news, I only got to know him again through this forum.
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Very sorry to hear of Andy's passing. My condolences to his family.
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G'Day Gents
Very sorry to hear about Andy passing, condolences to his family.
manna
Very sorry to hear about Andy passing, condolences to his family.
manna
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Very much so : A great and irreplaceable loss indeed.Micky wrote:Thats very sad news i am sorry to hear of his passing.
RIP Andy.
We met but few times, and corresponded only a little more. But he was always willing, and normally able, to come up with, no end of historical dates and detail, as borne out in many threads amongst these forums, and at GNRS meetings, at one of which (St.Neots) we had a brief but illuminating chat barely a few weeks ago.
Sincere condolences to his family and friends.
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Andy will be sadly missed R.I.P.
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Andy never operated my Ely North Junction but did visit many times. Every word he said about the passing trains was priceless. To get a controller's point of view has been a real privilege. Another privilege for me was to be able to help him write an article about Whitemoor Junction for the GE society. I will miss the fish and chips in St Neots after operating his railway. The distant is off Andy.
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Very sad news. RIP Andy. Thanks for all the info that you gave me about about train workings over the GN&GE joint.
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Andy's funeral will be on Friday 23rd August 2013 at 10am, Bedford Crematorium, Norse Road, Bedford.