Train Spotters and Transvestites...is there a connection???

[mrsniffles]

Being slightly keen on model trains i've gone to the odd railway model show. To my surprise i've spotted a good number of transvestites walking around with a handful of goods they've just purchased, so, was wondering if any memebers on here not only have a taste in womens clothing but also a fetish for trains too

[Richard]

As is well known on this forum, I am very keen on both steam locomotives (especially on rails but also traction engines, road rollers, etc) and model railways. In fact I am now engaged in constructing my latest layout; it will take years to build, then I'll think of some way of making it better so I'll demolish it and start again! I was a locospotter (i.e. a collector of numbers) well over 50 years ago but I thought they had died out with the end of steam.

Sorry! I got carried away there. To get back on topic; no, I've never had any inclination to dress in womens clothes, even for fancy dress parties, etc.

Rich.

[andy250]

Sorry cannot stop giggling, I have a vision of Miss Helen going to a model railway meeting en-femme, back in the
days of Wamdrogony it would probably happened for a sketch.

regards

Andy

[wampony]

Hi, I am also into trains and buses, I have never been a train spotter but I have worked as a volunteer on preserved steam railways in the past, had various model railways in my time and generally have friends who are also into railways one way or another.

I only once was going to dress in a skirt and t-shirt to go to a fancy-dress party, this never happened so I sploshed the outfit (green tennis skirt and my-little-pony shirt), the pictures are on here somewhere.
However I have also soaked and ripped a couple of dresses, and have only today sploshed in a mini-skirt but this was in the privacy of my own bathroom, I wouldn't ever go outside in a skirt so I don't know if this counts as transvestite-ism or not.
Your views please?

[BillShipton]

Put me down as on the fringes of both. I am interested in trains and buses but never collected numbers, nor am I an expert. I think I enjoy them from a nostalgic point of view as much as anything.

Being a fat, bearded occasional pipe smoker I would make a rubbish TV in the serious sense, nor do I want to be a serious anything. As my Facebook folowers know, I have been known to dress up for parties though more 'bloke in a frock' style than full drag. Having said that, if I was in anyway remotely attractive or convincing in female guise I might do it more though probably in a fetishy way rather than 'daywear'. I totally get the dressing up for messing up idea cos I think the whole point of this sort of thing is to be who you want for a bit.

So that's me then. Interested in both but committed to neither - as like so many things in my life!

[mr angry]

No, I like trains and buses but I am NOT into being a TV at all!!

[Sidi]

I think the whole point of this sort of thing is to be who you want for a bit.

Great quote, and sums it all up nicely.

Don't like trains or busses, give me an old Cosworth anyday.
Like to dress up though, but like BIll, I could double for Audrey on the bounty kitchen roll ad

[mrsniffles]

New there had to be something between the two...although at this moment in time it's still 50/50 going by the replies!

I'm going to a railway show with my lady and her parents next week in Peterborough, so will be keeping a close eye out for any hairy legged ladies train shopping and report back to you all.
You know what...i've just had a brain wave (I'm fine, it just happens from time to time! lol) From my understanding there are alot of wive's/live in partners who simply wouldn't put up with train layouts over running the house (someone i know has it running through his bathroom...mmm nice!), so perhaps the guy's that do crossdress/tv's do so because they miss a female companion

[LucindaAngelina]

mmmm okay how about this for update on the link goth transvestite railway enthusiasts ....!

Always a few can be spotted at the annual DEMU show in Buron-on-Trent ....

I know of a few people on the model railway circuit that come under this heading ... but if you look at any group of people it will be similar .. even the hard nuts on the football terraces ... how often do you see tv footage of fans on the terraces in drag and wigs ....

[lustinlatex]

hi, iv been on a number of main line steam train trips over the years with my partnet and can definatly say that i know of three tvs who i have spotted over the yaers traveling on thes trips. does that make me a tv spotter.

[mrsniffles]

Erm..I think that does Lustinlatex, so without further adue, welcome to the club

[JenniferDiaz]

I'm slightly torn on this subject...
I, myself, have only ever been on a train exactly 3 times in my entire life and they hold absolutely no intertest for me...
But the other day (and this shows how much I get out), I saw my very first Tv in public... at a train station!!!!
Coincidence? I think not!

[mrsniffles]

I'm slightly torn on this subject...
I, myself, have only ever been on a train exactly 3 times in my entire life and they hold absolutely no intertest for me...
But the other day (and this shows how much I get out), I saw my very first Tv in public... at a train station!!!!
Coincidence? I think not!

I've seen loads over the years, used to work in a model shop selling trains of all things and we saw some almost daily! It's fine until a CD came in who was just a middle aged man with big hands and a wonky bust kept looking for me to serve him/her all the time A tad worrying me thinks!
There was this time a georgeous crossdresser came in who was all dressed in black, nice short mini-dress (black sheer tights..."yum" said i the tights lover!) and heels (another yum!) and bought some diecast model aircraft (I feel another thread coming on lol). Anyway, just proves you can change what's on the surface but you can't change what's beneath as regards hobbies!

[Lizzie_Claymore]

Like Bill, never collected the numbers (really can't see the point of that!) but had a keen interest in many forms of transport. (Time rarely permits these days.) Also CD for sploshing. (It's the feel as well as the look, for me.)

Without revealing too much to identify me, I was quite heavily involved in both the model and transport preservation scene for many years and must have been to many hundreds of shows but never once noticed another CDer. However, that was two or three decades ago and it was much less likely then. Haven't been to more than a handful in the last decade so unlikely to notice. Nice to think that people are less intimidated so feel they can now go out en femme, though I never do myself.

Speaking from my own point of view, you're quite close to the truth with the 'lack of female companion' thing. That's how it started for me in teenage years. I figured that if girls weren't interested in me (which it seemed that they certainly weren't) then I'd see if I could create my own ideal one. After all, if you look in the mirror and see 'your ideal girl' allowing her tights to be filled with gloop, that's a lot easier than actually trying to persuade a real girl to do so, even if one could be found in the first place!

[Richard]

I feel I should point out that the term 'trainspotter' is incorrect. The correct term is 'locospotter'! Nowadays when most passenger trains are multiple unit affairs, rather than a separate locomotive hauling carriages, it is an easy mistake to make.