dubscottie
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"Do pencils scare you?" Lol. He did take a step back when Dick pointed it at him!
"spirit of sunderland vinyls.....whatever that means"
'We've seen 150s and 158s, what's the difference'
'Class 150s have 2 coaches and 158s have 3 coaches.'
Hmm..
'We've seen 150s and 158s, what's the difference'
'Class 150s have 2 coaches and 158s have 3 coaches.'
Hmm..
As an aside - here's a surprisingly positive article about it from, um, buzzfeed.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/scottybrya...ctually-exis?utm_term=.shy5XryjE6#.pjVzxbkVme
"158s are a bit faster"
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That surprises me, considering that most trainspotters are cis white guys.
I've heard lots of generally warm comments from normals and the bemused - while far from empirical, it suggests this is going down very well with at least few audiences.
They're stood next to 43002. Are you watching the same programme as us?
That spotter at Swindon (Thomas?) looked rather awkward, as if he'd rather be somewhere else.
Bob Gwynne (curator at the National Railway Museum) gave an unconvincing description of the difference between a DMU and a diesel loco. He describes a DMU as a "self-propelled train".
Sighted at Swindon, according to Thomas: 59207 and a 155. Really?
Not entirely sure what audience it is aimed at. I would suggest a younger audience to get them interested but it is on relatively late. It is alright, I would have liked to have seen more 37's on the Cumbrian coast but I don't think I am the target audience. I still think the presenters have been drinking all day.
Well it kinda is, as opposed to a Loco hauled train which is hauled or propelled by a loco.
I guess that you and I understand that, but I don't think it works for someone who knows little about rail stock.
Bob Gwynne (curator at the National Railway Museum) gave an unconvincing description of the difference between a DMU and a diesel loco. He describes a DMU as a "self-propelled train".
The bit with Hannah Fry with her HP/torque equation made me chuckle when she used 33,000 as the denominator and said something about imperial measurements being weird!
Tonight's programme live from Swindon, all about the HST and low and behold a GWR liveried set pitches up, shortly followed by 43002! They were remarkably lucky, it's almost as if someone had planned it that way
Did they mention anything about the one pictured being the test train? Hardly your "run of the mill" DMU anyway
Are we allowed to point out that a Voyager isn't strictly a DMU as one of the presenters said?
I did find the maths bit about torque quite interesting (and not just because of the Dr :P) - a bit of a shame it got cut off to go to an idling 37 that wasn't going anywhere
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Yes, I did quite like that too. I'm not sure of the reason for the 33000, but it probably doesn't matter for the purposes of the formula and it was an engaging and amusing way round it (can't ignore it but not relevant to the presentation at hand)
I'm enjoying the programme, the big logo 37 was sweet. If they do this again they need better presenters though.