Hello everyone,
now that Andrew was so kind to post the first message in this sub-forum I will introduce myself.
That's me:
(Well, actually that was me in 2003 and no, I'm not the yellow thing in the background.)
Some data about me: Full name Christoph Heuer, born in 1970 in Hannover,Germany, now resident in Kassel, Germany, married to Kerstin, no children.
First visit to Crich was in 1988, joined the TMS in 1993 when I was a student at what was then the University of Humberside in Hull; Crich conductor since 1994, driver since 2000, currently hold the licence for classes A0, A3, A5, A5*, H1 and H2.
Biggest claim to fame was that I was on the cover of a Crich leaflet, in 2004, I believe, with Adrian Roberts on 74. I was also one of the driving forces behind the acquisition of 902 and I am one out of two non UK-nationals and non-UK residents with a valid tram driving licence at Crich, Kerstin being the other.
I am also a member of the LRTA and the Hannover Tramway Museum Society in Germany (HSM, see www.wehmingen.de). There I am involved with the restoration of Gotha car Dessau 35 in its former identity as Dresden 213 107-8 (the yellow thing in the background of the photo) and I am also a driver and conductor there.
Apart from the forum I run the website www.gothawagen.de on the history of Dessau 35s sisters.
For those who wonder how to pronounce my German surname correctly: The "eu" sounds like the "oy" in "joy" or "toy", so it is pronounced like "hoy-er". Please do not pronounce the "eu" like "you" ("you-er") as many people do.
Regards
Christoph