User:GRALISTAIR

My first two names are Graham Alistair and my user name is a contraction of those names. I was born in Chester UK and lived in Preston Lancashire UK for 37 years. I then lived in the USA January 2001 - November 2025. One son-in-law is from Scotland so my 3 grand children are half Scottish and half English though they were all born in Ireland. I am now retired.

I went to Kirkham Grammar School in the years 1968-1975 and then my first degree is in Chemistry from the University of Central Lancashire and I gained my Master of Science in The Corrosion of Engineering Materials from Imperial College London. I also hold the Diploma of Imperial College qualification. The main study textbook was Corrosion Engineering by Mars G Fontana. I wrote the Wikipedia article about him. I also did multiple courses in Materials Science, mathematics, technology and engineering at The Open University. I have written papers that have been presented at conferences all over the world and that have been published including a chapter in a book published by The Royal Society of Chemistry.

I have spoken at conferences all over the world and been published.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

I peer review other people's papers.^[10]

Userboxes This user is a scientist. This user attends or attended Imperial College London This user is a Chemist. This user is an engineer. This user has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals. This user is a member of WikiProject UK Railways. This user is a railfan. This user drinks alcohol. This user has been on Wikipedia for 14 years, 2 months and 16 days.

This user does not smoke. DL This user's favorite airline is Delta Air Lines. This user has been hot air ballooning. This user is addicted to travel. This user is a Boeing 747 fan. UK This user uses British English. US This user uses American English. This user has been on Wikipedia for 14 years, 2 months and 16 days. This user is a citizen of the United Kingdom. This user participates in WikiProject Science.

• Masters ^[11]
• PU Past Present and future^[12]
• Waterborne PUDS Functional coatings ^[13]
• Pigment and Resin WBE Epoxy anticorrosion primers ^[14]
• WB Resins monograph ^[15]
• RSC WB Maintenace systems ^[16]
• WB Epoxy AC primers ^[17][18]

My main hobby has always been travel. These days it is mainly planes - 3 million miles flown (and well over 2 million miles on Delta Air Lines alone!)^[19] but I have had a lifelong interest in railways. As I used to work in the construction industry before retirement, and have studied engineering, my main love of railways these days is in electrification and construction related matters although I did clear my locomotives 3 times when I was a spotter in my youth. My last locomotive for my first time round was 08663^[20][21] allocated to Landore, spotted on number 1 target point Swansea east dock on July 25th 1976. I lived right by the West Coast Main Line north of Preston, Lancashire from 1965-1975 and so saw the end of steam, the introduction of diesels and the line's electrification. I still own a house that backs on to the WCML north of Preston. More recently, I took a photographic record with a friend of the North West England electrification schemes. Needless to say I am a member of a number of Railway enthusiasts societies in the United Kingdom. I have well over 20000 photographs, color slides etc on the subjects.

I do Wikipedia edits and was a supervisor on Answers.com. I love free knowledge and if history has taught us anything it is that knowledge does not like being caged up but wants to be set free. I try to never dispute with another editor and definitely not a reviewer but I do understand why people get upset sometimes. In the wiki article Corrosion Engineering one reviewer put "Needs attention from an expert”. I know the person who started the article and he has a Master of Science in Corrosion of Engineering Materials from Imperial College London - he is an expert! He was not a wiki expert and did not format or reference well. But if it had been me, I might have been upset and hurt. However, I try not to get upset but don't always succeed. In February 2021 I got really pissed off but hey ho life is too short. Recently got declined as an AfC reviewer too.

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  Work in progress at Salford Crescent Railway station July 2025
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  Work in progress at Salford Crescent Railway station July 2025
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  Work in progress at Salford Crescent Railway station July 2025
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  Work in progress at Salford Crescent Railway station July 2025
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  Work in progress at Salford Crescent Railway station July 2025
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  Key West Airport terminal entrance
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  Key West Airport looking towards the sea during expansion
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  Key West Airport deplaning onto tarmac not a jet bridge during airport expansion
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  Key West Airport rebuild and expansion in progress
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  Key West Airport New Jet bridge
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  Key West Airport New Jet bridge airport expansion
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  Arnside Viaduct -tide out
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  Arnside Viaduct -approaches with signal
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  Arnside Viaduct -from station platform with signal and signal box
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  Arnside Viaduct - memorial plaque to the project with construction dates
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  Arnside Viaduct -tide out
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  Arnside Viaduct -tide in
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  Asheville airport construction of new airport terminal and expansion
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  Asheville airport construction of new airport terminal and expansion
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  Asheville airport construction of new airport terminal and expansion
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  Asheville airport construction of new airport terminal and expansion
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  WYS airport
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  WYS airport 1
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  Box Spinning at Red Scar Works in its heyday
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  Coning machine at Red Scar Works coning bright rayon fibre onto a cone
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  CSPT machine at Red Scar Works
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  PET partially granulated and still in fiber form
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  Densified PET granules
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  Start of dormer conversion. Tiles and felt stripped off
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  Tiles, felt and wood battens stripped off from inside
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  Wood structure progress from inside
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  Dormer extension with tiles and felt stripped off and wood battens removed
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  Window frame structure complete
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  Dormer extension almost complete from outside
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  Dormer extension plastered from inside
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  Last Steam commemoration Preston station
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  Salwick Station rebuild for electrification
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  Salwick Station rebuild for electrification
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  Salwick Station rebuild for electrification
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  Salwick Station rebuild for electrification
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  Salwick Station rebuild for electrification
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  Salwick Station rebuild for electrification
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  Salwick Station rebuild for electrification
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  King Air E90 at VUJ
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  CHA airport
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  Up in the air
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  OTZ
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  CHA airport terminal expansion in progress
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  Chattanooga airport new terminal being built December 23rd 2022
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  Cleveland Burke Waterfront Airport from the cockpit of a Kingair E90
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  CRG Jacksonville FL Executive airport hangar
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  Jacksonville executive airport lobby area
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  Jacksonville Executive airport lounge from tarmac
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  Sandygate Lane AT ready
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  Ruby Falls
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  Entrance to Ruby Falls
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  2K Polyurethane paint progressively chalking
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  Hindley station with walls propped up
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  Hindley station pre electrification
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  Hindley station view of pipe and road overbridge from station footbridge
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  Hindley station view of two bridges and pipe from platform
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  Hindley station compound area
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  Hindley Railway station -class 769 pre electrification
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  Hindley station view of two bridges and pipe from platform at distance for perspective
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  Railway bridge over railway line by Westhoughton Golf Club 1
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  Railway bridge over railway line by Westhoughton Golf Club 2
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  Railway bridge over railway line by Westhoughton Golf Club 3
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  Railway bridge over railway line by Westhoughton Golf Club 4
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  Railway bridge over railway line by Westhoughton Golf Club 5
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  Railway bridge over railway line by Westhoughton Golf Club 6
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  Crow Nest Junction looking East taken from bridge
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  Crow Nest Junction bridge prior to rebuilding for electrification
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  Crow Nest Junction bridge view looking south
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  Crow Nest Junction line split view
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  Hand written bridge 18 post !
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  Lostock Junction to Wigan electrification scheme pre -wiring-railway lines
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  Lostock Junction to Wigan electrification scheme pre -wiring. Map and notice work taking place
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  Lostock Junction to Wigan electrification scheme pre -wiring. Bridge near M61 motorway worksite distance view
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  Lostock - Wigan bridges worksite
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  Lostock Junction to Wigan electrification scheme pre -wiring-railway lines
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  Route for Felixstowe to Nuneaton freight capacity scheme.
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  Calder Valley line
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  Birmingham–Peterborough line
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  Map of the Trans-Pennine Routes. The TRU relates to the northern line in blue via Huddersfield.
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  Woodhead
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  UK rail electrification by 2019
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  Midland Main Line Map original
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  West Coast Main Line Map

Notice quite a few photographs from Salwick railway station

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