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(Serious question&purpose) Why are people who are interested in railways considered odd?
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CAFCTrev said:Try being into trains AND Star Trek.....2
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To each his own I guess. I don't think it's odd when people take film and photos of different trains coming in and out of stations.
What I do find odd is when people write down the carriage numbers of modern trains....i mean they are a 8 figure or so number. Try doing that to a 12 carriage train when it zooms past you.0 -
I asked my wife this and she just burst out laughing...0
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I would love to travel extensively around the world by train.When I was at school, my friends were either interested in fishing or train spotting. I did not take up either hobby but would often be on a train down to London whilst my friends were going somewhere to collect train numbers.It's good to have a hobby and I never slate the trainspotter, good luck to them. Each to their own.3
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surely it's no odder than obsessions with football, cricket, tiddleywinks, stamp collecting, etc etc .. after all, train spotting does get one out of the house and into the fresh air now and then0
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Look at what Francis_Bourgeois43 posts on Instagram (and probably elsewhere). Classic train geek.
Nice fella but perfectly illustrates the answer to the OP's question. Wears odd clothes, laughs like a manic when an old train goes past him, goes train spotting anywhere in the UK to see a particular locomotive going past for 10 seconds.
I can see why people might find this odd behaviour...
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WHAddick said:Look at what Francis_Bourgeois43 posts on Instagram (and probably elsewhere). Classic train geek.
Nice fella but perfectly illustrates the answer to the OP's question. Wears odd clothes, laughs like a manic when an old train goes past him, goes train spotting anywhere in the UK to see a particular locomotive going past for 10 seconds.
I can see why people might find this odd behaviour...0 -
WHAddick said:Look at what Francis_Bourgeois43 posts on Instagram (and probably elsewhere). Classic train geek.
Nice fella but perfectly illustrates the answer to the OP's question. Wears odd clothes, laughs like a manic when an old train goes past him, goes train spotting anywhere in the UK to see a particular locomotive going past for 10 seconds.
I can see why people might find this odd behaviour...0 -
Back in the day of early sattelite tv you could view (possibly German) channels of trains from a drivers perspective. Went on for hours and hours.
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Being old and having a London Freedom Pass gets me very interested in trains, and also buses and the Underground System.0