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Writing numbers down on notebooks.
I still do !
And on my phone on Spotlog
Writing numbers down on notebooks.
I still do !
And on my phone on Spotlog
It is indeed the 222s I 'm referring to! It's not as though it's not clearly marked. Rather amusing in a way.I've even see someone try to press the non existent button next to the door which will only open if you have a T key on a 222!
You surreptitious spotter, you
Spotted that today at SheffieldDoes, "Try to catch a Northern Train on a Saturday" count?
It is amusing at times. Especially as the door is a different colour if there is no wording on it for some reason.It is indeed the 222s I 'm referring to! It's not as though it's not clearly marked. Rather amusing in a way.
Didn't see them myself, but I heard an announcer at Reading today tell some people kicking a football around on one of the platforms that they weren't in the Etihad Stadium and what they were doing was very dangerous.
Exactly. I didn't think people could be so stupid but I was wrong.Really shouldn't need reminding that they weren't in the Etihad, especially if there were people in the station.
Not so much a "weird thing" though, just an observation of clumsiness. Had he thrown the phone down there...Yesterday I saw a bloke getting off the train while faffing with his phone - he then dropped the phone and it fell between the train and the platform onto the tracks. I don't know what happened next as I was catching that train.
Not so much a "weird thing" though, just an observation of clumsiness. Had he thrown the phone down there...
The class 455s do that, I always hold the button down hoping they will open as soon as they unlocked. Doesn't work with Desiros or Electrostars1. A problem in any area where you deal with the public. Some people seem to deliberately ask the wrong question so that they can then complain about the inconvenience.
2. Not helped by the press regularly referring to "swiping" cards instead of tapping them.
3. Mea culpa on the rare occasion when I am on a class 165 instead of S stock.
4. I don't know if this has been standardised now but I can recall on some trains the doors would open if the button was already held down when the light came on while on others the press has to be made after the light comes on.
Or standing by a Capitalstar at Euston and asking if this is the Glasgow Central train!True.. should have said “from Middlesbrough”. That’s a journey I wouldn’t wish on anyone!
Works with Junipers.The class 455s do that, I always hold the button down hoping they will open as soon as they unlocked. Doesn't work with Desiros or Electrostars
Works with Junipers.
Even better is the setup Stadler have in Switzerland where you can press (but not hold in) the door button at either side of the vestibule and it “remembers” that and opens the relevant door on the correct side when the doors are released. Smart idea that regulars know and it reduces dwell times.
Some trams in the UK can do that.
Croydon too. The door button flashes to let you know it’s activatedMetrolink definitely, along with the Supertram Class 399
I saw a begger ask a plain clothes BTP officer for change about a month back.I'll see that, and raise you snorting Class A off a platform bench, unwittingly in front of plain clothes BTP.
For some reason this reminded me of a tale my uncle told. When travelling past yards with 'lots of stuff' for number-takers to, well, take numbers from, he would 'help' by calling out the numbers so the scribes could keep writing without wasting precious seconds looking up. Except he would deliberately call out bogus numbers.However, when a freight train rumbled through I was amazed to see one chap frantically noting the numbers of each wagon.
Short answer, yes.Is there a book of freight wagon numbers to record them in?
I was on a Man Oxford Road to Lime Street service a couple of weeks ago which was formed of a 142 at the front and a 150 at the rear. I can't stand 142's so I was sat in the 150.
The train pulled into West Allerton and two guys in their 60's got off the 142, scurried down the platform, and got onto the 150. At first I thought they were fare dodging, but then realised they were spotters and were talking about and making a note that they were now getting "haulage" from the 150 having previously getting "haulage" from the 142.
Does that even count as haulage!?
Anyway, they were harmless and at least they were enjoying their hobby. Although I can think of better hobbies than riding around on knackered old Northern 142's and 150's!