Prairie_5542
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Whilst working at Colchester a few years ago a lady came in to the office and asked ''Can you please help me. I can't find platform 4 as they've all got 'ONE' written on them!!'' 

Whilst working at Colchester a few years ago a lady came in to the office and asked ''Can you please help me. I can't find platform 4 as they've all got 'ONE' written on them!!''![]()
Whilst working at Colchester a few years ago a lady came in to the office and asked ''Can you please help me. I can't find platform 4 as they've all got 'ONE' written on them!!''![]()
Heard today at Foregate street
"is this a train"
Person standing next to a 172!!
Heard today at Foregate street
"is this a train"
Person standing next to a 172!!
Whilst working at Colchester a few years ago a lady came in to the office and asked ''Can you please help me. I can't find platform 4 as they've all got 'ONE' written on them!!''![]()
I don't get it. Explain please someone
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Is this question to fit in with the thread title? If not the former operator was a TOC using the trading name "ONE" and all the platform signs had their trading name branding on them.
It was the trading name/ branding of National Express East Anglia from 2004 -2008,
Aha, makes sense now. Still not sure what the 'O' stood for though.
It was a truly awful name, made even more confusing at stations like Cambridge in April 2006 when you got ONE trains and FIRST trains!
maes tege issa 1543 Maesteg ycha 1647 Maesteg uchaf 1813
Of course, it could have been named Y Llwyni 1773
That would have thrown him!
It was a truly awful name, made even more confusing at stations like Cambridge in April 2006 when you got ONE trains and FIRST trains!
I also think the livery was horrid, but that's subjective.
The initial business name they used was "London Eastern Railways" which seemed like a much more sensible name for a railway, but there you go. The livery had a kind of "gay pride" look to it which I thought was rather snazzy.The name was clearly a bad idea from a practical point of view, but probably sounded quite trendy and 'current' when it was being discussed by people in suits (who probably don't use trains) in a boardroom somewhere. As for the livery, I must admit that I actually thought it fairly pleasing, though not the best. I accept that I seem to be firmly in the minority on that though!
The initial business name they used was "London Eastern Railways" which seemed like a much more sensible name for a railway, but there you go. The livery had a kind of "gay pride" look to it which I thought was rather snazzy.
A few years back, when working for BT Directory Enquiries, I took a call from a lady who wanted to find out who had called her. She rhymed off a mobile number. We couldn't give out that sort of information even if we had it. (There were very few mobile numbers in the database at that time.) However, I could tell her that the call had come from an Orange mobile phone.
"Blimey! How can you tell what colour it is?" she asked.
A few years back, when working for BT Directory Enquiries, I took a call from a lady who wanted to find out who had called her. She rhymed off a mobile number. We couldn't give out that sort of information even if we had it. (There were very few mobile numbers in the database at that time.) However, I could tell her that the call had come from an Orange mobile phone.
"Blimey! How can you tell what colour it is?" she asked.
Stood on the platform on the very unelectrified MML at Beeston, I overheard a young lady ask her boyfriend if the train that had just arrived was the electric one. He said "No but the next train was".
Very worrying !
Interesting. Having worked for BT DQ myself, I know there is no reverse look-up facility. You wouldn't even know which network it was.
You do get some stupid questions on DQ, mostly people adamant that you should have a number for a place they visited one afternoon back in 1976 in the middle of nowhere or expect you to have local knowledge of somewhere the other end of the country.
I remember being asked for the number for the Isle of Wight ferry and asking "Is that on the Isle of Wight?"
Blimey, I remember once someone ringing me from a number I didn't recognise, so I 1471-ed it, then dialled it. No answer, so I rang Directory Enquiries to see if I could find out who it was. I was astonished when they didn't tell me. Turned out it was my mum calling me from a 'phone box on Cambridge station, but imagine if the circumstances had been different. Anything from menacing 'phonecalls to someone calling in a confused state, then collapsing at an isolated location.
Maybe I just think too much.
Interesting. Having worked for BT DQ myself, I know there is no reverse look-up facility. You wouldn't even know which network it was.
If you go back far enough, before phone number porting, the first portion of the phone number would indicate which network's phone number it was. See Wikipedia.
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