Any punters living in Birmingham Area interested in a Pie, Pint and jaw, one evening in a pub in Birmingham area.
Personally interested in small time investing(gambling), developing an appetite for CFDs. Also developing an interest in Charting or TA.

I use Sharescope, Moneyam, Barclays, Comdirect and IC

55, have not been following CSN what has accounted for loss. Yield now 11%?

I have doubts about likelyhood of been able to make IC meeting. Sorry!

..... *&^$* trains ..... seem to have bad luck with any day trips to London .... last trip prior to yesterday was on Virgin (& came to return from Euston to find it in chaos as no Virgin trains out due to signal / overhead line probs).....
..... so yesterday played safe and went on Chiltern ..... er .... came to return from Marylebone to find no trains running north of Aylesbury and passengers being advised to go to Paddington (for services up to Solihul) and Euston (for Brum and beyond) ...... hope Chiltern resolved problem before the end of Nelson Mandela concert as they were due to lay on extra long trains late evening to get concert goers home.

Oh, Well..... Could have been worse ..... Could have been holding TAN shares yesterday ...... !!!

And on a brighter train note, this weekend it's Tyseley 100:
http://www.vintagetrains.co.uk/tlw100/
There'll be a proper loco there: 86 259 Les Ross

Now then Chris, you know full well that it is better to travel than to arrive........................ If you had gone via Bristol you could have hitched a ride behind a Deltic!

>it is better to travel than to arrive

well, actually getting aboard the scheduled trains in the first place might be 'nice'....

..... at Tyseley today they coupled three main line steam locos together (about 360 tons worth) and ran them up and down the demo track a few times......

.... and got to get in to 86259 and walk thru betwen cabs ....

Regarding Ian's post about Chesnara, how about this as an example of a share that's following the footsie 100 http://moneyam.com/action/charts/basic?stockCode=CSN probably not the only one either.

.....looks like I won't be at tomorrows IC Roadshow ..... did try to register last week(and follow it up this week) ..... but no sensible responce from them ..... so presume:
a) Roadshow is already full, or
b) I'm on some 'blacklist' they've got, or
c) The registration administrators are incompetent....

.... enjoy your Roadshow.....

Sorry to here that Chris, do you want me to make inquiries when I get there, I could give you a ring on the day if a vacancy was on? can't believe that they are fully booked.

Ed: Anybody else coming or is it just me?

thanks ..... but I've lost interest now ..... they did seem just 'useless' to say the least or perhaps they've 'downsized staffing'..... when phoned they couldn't give any explanation as they said they'd have to walk over to another office to check why I wasn't getting a confirmation from them .... e-mail I sent to them this morning got the auto-responce that they'd reply within three days .....

Fair enough, IC owned by FT who in turn are owned by Pearson Group I think...sounds like typical "couldn't care less" big business.

yeep, with staff ensuring they don't deviate from their job descriptions .....

Survivor, You can use my place as I won't be able to attend.

Email me and I wil send you my details

Fred .... thanks for the offer ...... but I have lost interest in going after 'knocking my head against the wall' several times trying to get a confirmation from them .....
did rearrange my work tomorrow so had afternoon free as had two simultaneous events that I wanted to go to ..... so have now opted for the other (family orientated one)....

How's the formatting on the e-mail you received? Someone else I know that did get a confirmation said it was naff formating and they had to spend some time reformatting it in order to print it out on one page.

Formatting no problem, but I accept all formats as I have double viral checker etc.

Well, about 21 hours before the event then I finally got a responce saying that if I registerred again they'd ensure that they'd get an invitation to me. Seems it's being organised by a marketing services company that has "one primary goal - to help our customers sell more magazines more profitably." Not my words but theirs:
http://www.alliance-media.co.uk/

Looks like just me then attending today, in that case I might go straight there depends what time I have before hand...if you are going please post here.

Stan ..... Hope you have a good Roadshow. Hopefully IC will get their act together on the day and it'll be a good event to attend ..... plus you'll get a special offer to subscribe to IC.......

Well not a bad afternoon at the IC event, as usual heard a lot of stuff before but always worth going to I think.

Must have been close to a 100 there but think that anyone who had just turned up would have got in as the registration was to simply give one's name.

Train firm to start airport link

A new rail link is to provide passengers in mid Wales with a direct link to Birmingham airport later this year.
Arriva Trains Wales' service every two hours from Aberystwyth finishes at the city's New Street station at present.
But from December the company will extend the link so it stops at Birmingham International.
Trains in mid Wales use the Cambrian line, which links the region with stations across England.

Arriva Trains added that a similar service to Birmingham airport would commence from Chester from December.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7505769.stm

"Arriva Trains Wales' service every two hours from Aberystwyth finishes at the city's New Street station at present."

..well it does if it's running to time otherwise they stop it at Wolverhampton and send it back, passengers needing to get the London connection (at New St.) of about 12 minutes start to panic -):

"The timetable is being designed with extra performance contingency, which should improve punctuality and prevent the need to regularly turn trains around at Wolverhampton."

http://www.saveseverntunnel.co.uk/draft-timetable.htm

"A new direct two hourly service from Holyhead to Birmingham New Street and International via Chester and Shrewsbury. This will replaces Arriva Trains Wales direct Holyhead to Crewe services."