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tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Peregrine falcon sat on the college fence, eying up some ducks.
staffordjas
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Tilly
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Giant lobster washed up on a beach?
Thehooperman
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Why do Esso app mobile payment boards tell you to switch of your mobile phone? How does that work?
Is or is it not safe to use your mobile at petrol stations?
Is or is it not safe to use your mobile at petrol stations?
Tilly
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Thehooperman
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My train to Stafford go sailing through Filton Abbey Wood station (just north of Bristol) without stopping after my train from South Wales was decamped there instead of Bristol Parkway where the Stafford train did stop at,............grrrrr!!!
Gramaisc
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In 1963, I was standing on the platform of Kingham station in Gloucestershire, with my father, who was off to Cyprus for three months. In those days, in the right circumstances, you could detect an approaching train much further away than is generally possible now. The bursts of smoke and steam as it passed under each bridge gave a good indication of its location and speed. Having spotted its approach, it seemed to me that it was unlikely to be able to stop at the station, but, there were many adults involved and I had to assume that they knew what they were doing. Eventually, it came into sight and hammered through the station at a good 60mph, in the violent manner that only an ageing steam train can, much to the surprise of everybody but me.
When the smoke, steam, ash, smuts and other debris had cleared, we could see the stationmaster on the opposite platform, shouting "That was your train!" and pointing at where it had gone with his walking stick, as if we didn't know.
It was pulled up in the next station and we went off and literally caught it by mean of the stationmaster's van.
The Hawk
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My first ever day in Australia, I decided to catch the all stations train from Perth to Fremantle.
Train sets off, a mile or so down the line, screech of brakes and I see a platform 'shoot by'. After a few moments the train starts off again and a laid back Aussie voice comes over the intercom "Well we missed that one then".
Train sets off, a mile or so down the line, screech of brakes and I see a platform 'shoot by'. After a few moments the train starts off again and a laid back Aussie voice comes over the intercom "Well we missed that one then".
Thehooperman
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In the days before customer information screens on platforms I had to go to Crewe for a medical
Around about lunchtime there used to be two London trains from Crewe leaving within minutes of each other. One train was first stop Stafford, other first stop Nuneaton.
I duly asked the station staff if the train stopped at Stafford and as I boarded I heard a group of 4 businessmen ask the same question.
As soon as the train sets off the guard announces next stop Nuneaton. Oh well I thought it's still on my maintenance patch no harm done.
The 4 businessmen went into panic mode as they had meeting at GEC so as the guard walks through a loud American accent proclaims "we need to be in Stafford for a meeting at 12.30" to which the guard equally as loud replies "you will be gents but not for very long" and walks off again.
Around about lunchtime there used to be two London trains from Crewe leaving within minutes of each other. One train was first stop Stafford, other first stop Nuneaton.
I duly asked the station staff if the train stopped at Stafford and as I boarded I heard a group of 4 businessmen ask the same question.
As soon as the train sets off the guard announces next stop Nuneaton. Oh well I thought it's still on my maintenance patch no harm done.
The 4 businessmen went into panic mode as they had meeting at GEC so as the guard walks through a loud American accent proclaims "we need to be in Stafford for a meeting at 12.30" to which the guard equally as loud replies "you will be gents but not for very long" and walks off again.
Gramaisc
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I was on a platform at Oxford station once when there was an announcement to the effect that - "Don't believe the information on the screens, it's all wrong, but we can't even turn them off - the next train is actually going to (insert station) and not (insert other station)" - as I and the chap in the blazer next to me gazed at the 200 or so people on the platforms, I asked him "How many of these people do you think might be deaf, or just non-English-speaking?", not that he was going to be able to do much about it...
Especially as it's incorrect. Mallard Walk is off a road that is in Doxey - it isn't Doxey Road.Most pointless replacement signs of the week.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Withnail
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Tilly
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It's not pedantic. I lived on that road in Doxey for several years and the postal address is just that, Doxey. It stops being called Doxey Road somewhere after Castletown.
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