Railway Acronyms

[yorkie]

I appear to be getting a malware warning from that website :/

That specific page or that site?

The page itself consists of HTML only.

 

[Dai.]

That specific page or that site?

The page itself consists of HTML only.

Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!
The website at www.dreadful.org.uk contains elements from the site insysm.com, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer.

 

[ralphchadkirk]

I'm getting a Malware error with that site - even with a Mac so it must be bad!
Yorkie - you cannot guarantee that a page is composed of HTML, even if it has a .html extension, or if the 'View Source' appears as HTML. Remember dynamic programming languages, and that now you can get servers to parse different extensions as different files. I'm not sure it would apply in this situation, but it's just an FYI.

 

[4SRKT]

I used to open that site a lot: it's quite a laugh. I had a malware warning on it months ago though, so have shied away from it since then.

 

[mrcheek]

Can we forget about malware and get back to the damn jokes?

Anyway, I forget what ASLEF stands for. But I assume its the Association of Surly, Lazy Educational Failures....

also, one that was used for real. I cant be bothered to look it up, but there was once a railway company called M&GN. I forget what it actually stood for (midland and Great Northern?), but the usual assumption was that it stood for Muddle and Go Nowhere.....

 

[33056]

If you speeded up the Blackpool & Fleetwood Tramway a bit you could rename it the Fylde Area Rapid Transit.

There already is one of those running through Italy and Switzerland, Società Subalpina di Imprese Ferroviarie (SSIF) in Italy or Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi (FART) in Switzerland

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Can we forget about malware and get back to the damn jokes?

Anyway, I forget what ASLEF stands for. But I assume its the Association of Surly, Lazy Educational Failures....

also, one that was used for real. I cant be bothered to look it up, but there was once a railway company called M&GN. I forget what it actually stood for (midland and Great Northern?), but the usual assumption was that it stood for Muddle and Go Nowhere.....

GWR stands for Gresley Was Right.

 

[4SRKT]

I understand that the Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway was unflatteringly referred to as the Slow, Late and Never Come Regular.

However, this isn't actually rude, so we need to move back towards some of the ludicrously contrived suggestions upthread.....

 

[MidnightFlyer]

I've got a list I would type up of good and bad nicknames for railway companies (such as S&D, L&Y and GWR etc), but none of them are dirty. Still interested anyone?

 

[4SRKT]

I've got a list I would type up of good and bad nicknames for railway companies (such as S&D, L&Y and GWR etc), but none of them are dirty. Still interested anyone?

Not dirty? <does not compute>

That's my 1,500th post folks!!

 

[ainsworth74]

Not dirty? <does not compute>

That's my 1,500th post folks!!

And what a good one it is!

 

[Lampshade]

Can we forget about malware and get back to the damn jokes?

Anyway, I forget what ASLEF stands for. But I assume its the Association of Surly, Lazy Educational Failures....

Without looking, ASsociation of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen?

 

[scotsman]

Can we forget about malware and get back to the damn jokes?

Anyway, I forget what ASLEF stands for. But I assume its the Association of Surly, Lazy Educational Failures....

also, one that was used for real. I cant be bothered to look it up, but there was once a railway company called M&GN. I forget what it actually stood for (midland and Great Northern?), but the usual assumption was that it stood for Muddle and Go Nowhere.....

Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen

I do think you're being rather harsh on these guys, they do a good job for their members.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Can we forget about malware and get back to the damn jokes?

Possible new job title for the operations managers:

Local Area Timetable Executive.

 

[starrymarkb]

I will say that MTU stands for Motor Turbine Union* - not Motor Traction Unit.

*Merged Mercedes and Maybach heavy engine divisons, so the MTUs in the HSTs aren't totally alien to the GWML!

 

[220010]

CrossCountry Fined

 

[MCR247]

What?

 

[Welshman]

The old London and North Eastern Railway was Late Nearly Every Run; The Somerset and Dorset the Slow and Dirty; The Great Western Railway was either God's Wonderful Railway or the Great Way Round[before the Severn Tunnel was built London-S Wales traffic went via Gloucester] and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln very quickly became the Money, Sunk and Lost.

 

[scotsman]

GWR = Gresley Was Right

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Grand Central = Gone Completley;
LNER = Late & Never Early Railway;
GNER = Got No Engine Ready;
M&GNR = Muddle & Go Nowhere Railway