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Train spotters

Sillybilly
Sillybilly Posts: 9,255
edited April 2013 in Fun, Jokes & Captions
Just taken from my train window. Does this make me a train spotter spotter. Weird people! Oh well. Each to their own
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  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Henrys not wearing his cardigan?
  • bloodnut
    bloodnut Posts: 2,146
    just for my records sillybilly, you wouldn't happen to know the number and make of train you were on do you?

    cheers!
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,303
    No but you should get back to work on those consultation papers...
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,715
    I've never really been into train spotting , i can't believe Charlton fans are labelled as train spotters , considering how few fans we take to away grounds?
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,255
    Bournemouth Addick said:

    No but you should get back to work on those consultation papers...


    Now you know why watching transporters seems so exciting! :-)!
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,164
    Sillybilly said:

    Bournemouth Addick said:

    No but you should get back to work on those consultation papers...


    Now you know why watching transporters seems so exciting! :-)!
    It gets you first class travel though!! ;-)
  • CAFCdamo
    CAFCdamo Posts: 1,692
    I like trainspotting, think that McGregor puts in a decent performance as Renton. Oh wait...
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,715
    TelMc32 said:

    Sillybilly said:

    Bournemouth Addick said:

    No but you should get back to work on those consultation papers...


    Now you know why watching transporters seems so exciting! :-)!
    It gets you first class travel though!! ;-)
    On Virgin trains its worth it , (£10 - 15 extra?) on Midlands its pants.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,460
    the one at the bank has probably featured on crimewatch...
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,255
    On Virgin trains its worth it , (£10 - 15 extra?) on Midlands its pants.


    Funnily enough it can be quite cost effective. I do a lot of travelling. This was a short notice meeting in Glasgow starting from Solihull where I spend a couple of days every other week. Potentially a pain in the arse andI would have cost £400 to fly at this notice. On the train it was just over half if that and I get fed, watered and get six hours unmolested work done (except of course when my concentration turns to transporters!). If you plan it right and don't miss trains, its often very little dearer to travel on a first class advance ticket than it is to travel standard class.

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  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,255
    Sorry, trying to post on a 3G connection. Meant to add that for away matches its well worth looking at first class advance fares on the train line.com. You can find that first class weekend tickets booked yonks in advance come in really cheap. Makes for a good day out!
  • Trainspotter
    Trainspotter Posts: 44
    edited April 2013
    Sillybilly said:

    Weird people! Oh well. Each to their own

    Calling me weird? ;-)
  • redsek
    redsek Posts: 656
    Looks like a little Millwall fan who's found a camera and is wondering what the *!%* he's doing in Warrington Bank Quay.
  • kigelia
    kigelia Posts: 2,583
    The thing I don't get with trainspotters is the lack of ambition. Any idiot can spot a train from the station. Come talk to me when you can spot one from 300 yards away whilst hiding under a bench.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,182
    What do they do with the numbers?
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    And we wonder why FFS
  • richie8
    richie8 Posts: 1,205
    They are seriously weird.The ones with cameras are dangerous though,taking pictures with flash just as the driver is trying to stop his train!
  • bloodnut
    bloodnut Posts: 2,146
    richie8 said:

    They are seriously weird.The ones with cameras are dangerous though,taking pictures with flash just as the driver is trying to stop his train!

    not me richie, i like to plot myself at the end of the platform with my easel and paints... SAY NO TO FLASHING TRAIN DRIVERS!!!
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    edited April 2013
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  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,108
    bloodnut said:

    richie8 said:

    They are seriously weird.The ones with cameras are dangerous though,taking pictures with flash just as the driver is trying to stop his train!

    not me richie, i like to plot myself at the end of the platform with my easel and paints... SAY NO TO FLASHING TRAIN DRIVERS!!!
    Just keep your coat buttoned up.


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  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,397
    Ahem, I believe the correct term is "Rail fan", before anyone gets offended...
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,110
    More inportantly, is Helen White a would ya?
  • richie8
    richie8 Posts: 1,205
    guinnessaddick said:

    bloodnut said:

    richie8 said:

    They are seriously weird.The ones with cameras are dangerous though,taking pictures with flash just as the driver is trying to stop his train!

    not me richie, i like to plot myself at the end of the platform with my easel and paints... SAY NO TO FLASHING TRAIN DRIVERS!!!
    Just keep your coat buttoned up.

    Unless you are female with big tits!!!!!
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,164
    Sillybilly said:

    Sorry, trying to post on a 3G connection. Meant to add that for away matches its well worth looking at first class advance fares on the train line.com. You can find that first class weekend tickets booked yonks in advance come in really cheap. Makes for a good day out!

    Yeah, I know sillybilly...we've used it a few times for footie in the past on Virgin. Quite right that it's worthwhile there, but not on Midland Trains.

    And definitely worthwhile if you need to work as you travel. Unfortunately a lot of my meetings don't give me the notice to make it as viable an option as I'd like it to be! ;-(
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    I can sort of understand the fasciation with trains in the steam age when there were plenty of different engines, classes and coaches but all trains just look the same these days.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,163
    Sillybilly said:

    On Virgin trains its worth it , (£10 - 15 extra?) on Midlands its pants.

    I get fed, watered and get six hours unmolested work done

    Out of interest, how much extra would it cost to get molested ?

  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    I hope you've all got a copy of this in your duffel coat pockets:



  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    Surely an ATOC Routeing Guide would be better
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    edited April 2013
    NathanPrior said:

    Surely an ATOC Ro

    Perhaps for getting from A to B but not for spotting and identifying etc. {: )

  • Glovepup
    Glovepup Posts: 1,751
    Which are worse....Plane or Train spotters?

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