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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #300 on: 01 March, 2017, 09:50:04 pm »
I can understand trainspotters - trains are wonderful things (particularly steam trains)...


...but bus spotters ???  ???  Why?

There's a chap who spends most days stood in the Addenbrookes bus station taking down numbers.

and I know a guy who spends all day and night trolling cycle chat and other forums and winding people up ....a nob and his name starts with R and ends with an r  >:(
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #301 on: 01 March, 2017, 11:03:56 pm »
I can understand trainspotters - trains are wonderful things (particularly steam trains)...


...but bus spotters ???  ???  Why?

There's a chap who spends most days stood in the Addenbrookes bus station taking down numbers.

and I know a guy who spends all day and night trolling cycle chat and other forums and winding people up ....a nob and his name starts with R and ends with an r  >:(

Somewhat lacking in excellence there, I feel.
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #302 on: 02 March, 2017, 10:48:49 am »
I can understand trainspotters - trains are wonderful things (particularly steam trains)...


...but bus spotters ???  ???  Why?

There's a chap who spends most days stood in the Addenbrookes bus station taking down numbers.

and I know a guy who spends all day and night trolling cycle chat and other forums and winding people up ....a nob and his name starts with R and ends with an r  >:(

Somewhat lacking in excellence there, I feel.

Digging up a post the thick end of six years old?  Nothing much to see on the platforms at Lime Street ATM, I suppose.
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #303 on: 15 March, 2017, 09:31:04 pm »
Because you want to get close ...

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--aLupcuyc--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/lu50zwzimma12ir1nv9v.gif

Maybe a bit too close this time, look at the lady with the hat.
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #304 on: 08 October, 2017, 09:28:57 pm »
At Darlo station last Tuesday  :D


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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #305 on: 08 October, 2017, 09:55:46 pm »
They weren't so shiny when they were hauling freight in the 50s!

My father was a bit of a trainspotter and rode in the cab of the LMS Turbomotive, about the only unconventional steam locomotive to be superior to the conventional type (Gresley tried a water tube boiler, Bulleid got away with some shocking things like the Leader class and chain-driven valve gear, but none of them worked well).  Turbomotive was damned by its umiqueness in the end, being rebuilt as piston-engined Princess Anne when it needed spare turbine parts and promptly being written off at Harrow & Wealdstone.
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #306 on: 08 October, 2017, 09:57:19 pm »
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #307 on: 14 September, 2018, 04:10:46 am »
Spotted in Marc's in Broadview Heights, Ohio.


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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #308 on: 14 September, 2018, 08:45:59 am »
I didn’t know there was a train spotters thread, if I had I’d have got photographic evidence1.

The florist where we got the flowers for mum’s funeral was in a garden centre whose owner I assume was a train spotter because suspended in the roof space in more than one place where G scale rail tracks complete with trains trundling around them.
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #309 on: 14 September, 2018, 08:57:43 am »
I didn’t know there was a train spotters thread...
Just like there is an app for that, there's a thread for that :)
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #310 on: 29 September, 2018, 08:13:44 pm »

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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #311 on: 24 March, 2019, 08:09:13 pm »
Steam on the underground!
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In conjunction with the London Transport Museum, TfL will run a steam train along the District line later this year. The modernisation of signalling on the Hammersmith & City, District, Circle and Metropolitan lines means that this will be the last time a steam train will be able to travel through the central section of the Underground.

Details of the steam train tours will be announced later this year.


Could be rather smelly...
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #312 on: 25 March, 2019, 09:37:56 am »
I still have the picture and article from the Grauniad about the last steam train on London Underground.* It was an ex-GWR Pannier in London Transport red, with a couple of wagons and a brake van. The picture was taken at the same location as the one above, but from a different angle.


*We were doing painting at Playgroup and the newspapers were covering the tables**. I was allowed to use the scissors to cut the item out myself :smug:

**I seem to have a lot of Grauniad articles from that time, mainly covering rail and aviation topics.
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #313 on: 26 March, 2019, 08:59:56 am »
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #314 on: 27 March, 2019, 06:24:03 pm »
Thanks for the links @pcolbeck. I'd never seen those before  :thumbsup:
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #315 on: 23 September, 2019, 06:55:54 pm »
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #316 on: 23 September, 2019, 08:05:38 pm »
Shinkansen vs TGV - Is One Better Than the Other?
Tokyo to Singapore... Jacob's bogies...AGV... maglev...  :thumbsup:
(but what was he thinking with that shirt!)
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #317 on: 23 September, 2019, 08:17:43 pm »
...
(but what was he thinking with that shirt!)

That one is pretty low-key.  Check out some of his other videos.
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #318 on: 23 May, 2020, 09:57:20 pm »
And another from Curious Droid: What happened to the Trans Europe Express?

I love the Italian train!
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #319 on: 24 May, 2020, 09:11:46 am »
And another from Curious Droid: What happened to the Trans Europe Express?

I love the Italian train!
Wikipedia is your friend https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Europ_Express
Essentially TEE was a branding exercise for first class, fast, long distance trains run by multiple cooperating national operators.
As they separately developed their own fast services, and the prices of second class travel dropped, the model fell apart.
The nearest we have now are the Thalys services. And the various national operators find it hard even to cooperate on cross border ticketing.
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #320 on: 14 July, 2020, 05:10:53 pm »
How about station-spotting?

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Lots of rail geekiness (especially for London) from Geoff Marshall.
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #321 on: 16 July, 2020, 06:30:04 pm »
I’ve follow this modeller on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/east_coastway

There is no better way to put it than to copy his profile:
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Remembering the 2001-2004 South Central Trains franchise with a fleet of multiple units in 4mm

His work is superb. Once upon a time I used to be able to immerse myself in detail like this but I’m not sure if I have the focus any more.

Hope some of you enjoy it.

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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #322 on: 16 July, 2020, 06:38:25 pm »
How about station-spotting?

Redcar British Steel - Least Used Station in Britain

Lots of rail geekiness (especially for London) from Geoff Marshall.

ISTR that there is a Sporcle quiz on the least used stations in the UK. Dovey Junction and Maidstone Barracks feature.
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #323 on: 16 July, 2020, 09:17:33 pm »
How about station-spotting?

Redcar British Steel - Least Used Station in Britain

Lots of rail geekiness (especially for London) from Geoff Marshall.

ISTR that there is a Sporcle quiz on the least used stations in the UK. Dovey Junction and Maidstone Barracks feature.
I'm going to guess Lympstone Commando features as well.
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Re: Trainspotters. Why?
« Reply #324 on: 16 July, 2020, 09:26:18 pm »
How about station-spotting?

Redcar British Steel - Least Used Station in Britain

Lots of rail geekiness (especially for London) from Geoff Marshall.
Yes, Geoff and Vicki's stuff is great. Worth checking out their All The Stations series, if you haven't seen it. They have been everywhere.
Also been doing some nice pub quiz videos recently. https://www.youtube.com/c/AllTheStations