All the quotes here used to be in the random quotes box on the main page, but have now been sent into retirement to allow me to add new ones!

'I find Chris Copeland's chest hypnotic.'
- Pally Lowndes

'I love a man with silver eyelashes.'
- Pally Lowndes

'Railtrack apologise for the withdrawal of the timetable service. The link to our service provider has been severed by an excavating machine.'
- Railtrack website, mid 1999

'Note to costume designers: putting shiny bits on codpieces is not a good idea.'
- Madeline Lowndes

'How odd. Our measure of aesthetics is being dictated by men dressed up as anthropomorphic trains. That's gotta be a new one...'
- Angie Kae

'Eventually, Pearl, we all end up in the orchestra pit.'
- Angie Kae

'Are you sure we are the Starlight?'
- Sarah, halfway up a Welsh mountain
'Well, what do you know! We ARE the Starlight!'
- Sarah, at the top of a Welsh mountain

'I think my mother thinks I'm weird because I spend my Friday nights in an internet chatroom pretending to be a train...'
- Anna (me)

'Does anyone else dream about steam trains?'
- Anna (me)

'The main goal of the company was to be able to skate with enough breath to sing Andrew Lloyd Webber's music.'
- Arlene Phillips (Choreographer)

The London production of Starlight Express has been seen by around 8 million people, and celebrated its 17th birthday on 27th March 2001.

'Staging a play allows a fair degree of freedom, but musical staging must be utterly disciplined and accurate; each artist is required to be precisely on the right square inch of stage at the precisely the right count in the music. With our artists on rollerskates we felt absurdly lucky if someone was in the right half of the stage in the right half of the number.'
- Trevor Nunn (Director)

'It would be preposterous of me to claim that it's a work of any seriousness.'
- Trevor Nunn (Director)

'Blues songs have a lot to do with rail travel, homeless people with no sense of direction hitching the next ride over great distances to the unknown. And of course, the rhythm of the train comforts you, or echoes your despair...'
- Trevor Nunn (Director)