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Oddest Passengers seen on Public Transport
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Did he take a photo of anything? If he did, I'd expect staff and BTP to suddenly take an interest....
ATW Alex 101
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seen a group of men probs on a stag do and this big fat ugly bloke was in a borat mankina and just that no shoes
causton
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Apart from a girl who had an upside-down McDonalds paper bag on her head (she was with a group of friends who led her off the train at her stop) I really can't think of anything else! :P
atomicdanny
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I've seen a bunch of Klingons come off a train at Canterbury East once (shame i never had my camera with me). Although would Oompa Loompas at Romford count (oh wait that's normal for essex 
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(Just in case anyone is from essex that was meant as a joke
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)(Just in case anyone is from essex that was meant as a joke
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Ivo
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I've seen Mario and Luigi before now, and not just once either. I don't think they've ever been accompanied by Princess Peach though.
Certainly came across as one to me
I've seen a bunch of Klingons come off a train at Canterbury East once (shame i never had my camera with me). Although would Oompa Loompas at Romford count (oh wait that's normal for essex
(Just in case anyone is from essex that was meant as a joke
Certainly came across as one to me
Ivo
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I think Bowser would make for a fairer RPI than some of those you have dealt with before now
Another odd one: An American family in Bath today. I quote the mother: "I don't understand their money." (This in relation to being charged £5.40 and not being able to tell what coins were needed for the 40p.)
Another odd one: An American family in Bath today. I quote the mother: "I don't understand their money." (This in relation to being charged £5.40 and not being able to tell what coins were needed for the 40p.)
DaveNewcastle
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We could revisit the thread with photos of the Grand Central Halloween Special, where staff and passengers were, apparently, very eager to present themselves in outrageous and bizzare make up and costumes.
VTPreston_Tez
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Wow it must have been diverted to Preston then...
The worst I've ever seen was a busker on a RENFE coastal line near Barcelona. He got off at Mataro but his costume was absurd. Some commuter came out of the toilet clearly drunk the station after in a business outfit (who was a fair bit damp) and fell on my mum's boyfriend's daughter (complex, I know)
Err yeah, double trouble I guess.
deltic1989
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I saw 2 guys dressed as royal guards (complete with busbies and rifles) I was still in the Navy at the time and in uniform with ine of my oppos. We looked right charlieswhen they came and sat with us.
The 375 King
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There is a bloke on the medway valley line in the mornings who looks like a cross between catweasle and Frankie Boyle.
deltic1989
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one I have just remembered, a guy on a bus in Nottingham dressed as batman. That not the end of it though because robin and superman got on a couple of stops later and aqua man met them at the market square if wonder woman had showed up they would have had the whole justice league.
My dad used to go on about a bloke who went on railtours in the eighties with a 3 wheeled (one wheel missing, not a trike version) skateboard (this was the period after the 70s skateboard craze, but before the current one started in the late eighties ) and his sandwiches in a a bucket.
Crimson_Quiff
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Oddest passengers on Public Transport? - Enthusiasts!
mappman1000
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I've seen someone ride a uni-cycle on the platform, then inside a train, also seen lots of preachers, I've seen someone board a train with 10 dogs, someone dancing energetically to music, even though they don't appear to be playing/listening to any...
Oddest passengers on Public Transport? - Enthusiasts!
Well, I was going to say I have travelled on trains with a few members of this forum.....
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Seriously though, the oddest passenger I can think of was a couple of weeks ago on a London Waterloo - Weymouth service. There were a group who were clearly bored (I think it was between Winchester and Soton Airport Parkway) and one of them came down to the very front of the carriage (the front one on the train too, so just behind the cab), sounding like he hit the wall on the way, crouched down, then started jumping up and down, acting and making the sounds of a monkey. This repeated as he made his way up the carriage.
I say a lot of "I think" because at this point I decided the best thing to do was to sit staring out of the window as I had done before (hence not really knowing what the "thud" was before all this started) and hoping if the guy decded to pick on our area, he would get the guy sat next to me in the aisle seat, rather than me. All the while, his friends were watching on from the vestibule door creasing themselves with laughter :roll:
tsr
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10 or so teenagers dressed up in Linux penguin costumes heading to a Christmas party in the London Victoria area...
What appeared to be TfL's in-house rail enthusiasts' club at Roding Valley (about 8 men and women in ludicrous amounts of TfL hi-vis who wandered round the station casually, eating lunch and chatting about steam locos, signalling and various other railway matters before catching the next train back to central London)...
Then there was the time when I carried a bag of bread rolls, a suitcase, three waterproof kit bags, a rucksack with an enormous container of shower gel fastened to it (don't ask) and a sleeping bag between Euston and London Bridge...
What appeared to be TfL's in-house rail enthusiasts' club at Roding Valley (about 8 men and women in ludicrous amounts of TfL hi-vis who wandered round the station casually, eating lunch and chatting about steam locos, signalling and various other railway matters before catching the next train back to central London)...
Then there was the time when I carried a bag of bread rolls, a suitcase, three waterproof kit bags, a rucksack with an enormous container of shower gel fastened to it (don't ask) and a sleeping bag between Euston and London Bridge...
That's not too bad. You should have seen what I was carrying when I moved into my rooms last year. It included most of my kitchen things (pots, pans, the lot), a pillow to stop things rattling, all sorts of odd electrical equipment, framed photos, tins of baked beans and so on. When I took a load of stuff home (by air) I had to abandon a lot of odd things because of weight, including a cheese grater, a pair of tongs and a wooden spoon. I've also had to transport a dozen bottles of Co-op shampoo (because we don't have a local one).
Drsatan
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On the 17:25 from Exmouth to Barnstaple today two men got on at Topsham dressed as plastic green toy soldiers! They'd spray painted themselves green, were wearing backpacks and steel helmets, and carrying toy guns. As you can imagine they received a few bemused looks!
Schnellzug
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Are you sure they didn't get on at Lympstone Commando?
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I was thinking that too!
Not seen anyone too odd myself, although whenever I do a Devon ranger involving a trip out to Honiton there is often a woman who boards the train back who I see a couple of times later on in the day, notably at Totnes and Exeter (I think she also does the 10:46 XC HST Southbound)
Butts
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How about RailUK Forums members on their way to a Fares Workshop
Drsatan
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I was thinking that too!
Not seen anyone too odd myself, although whenever I do a Devon ranger involving a trip out to Honiton there is often a woman who boards the train back who I see a couple of times later on in the day, notably at Totnes and Exeter (I think she also does the 10:46 XC HST Southbound)
No, they got on at Topsham :P
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The posh schoolkids getting on at Tonbridge can be quite odd especialy when they 'text' the one sitting next to them, and shreeking like mad when we bounce on some points.
Several times I've seen trainloads of badly dressed blokes, often sporting dodgy facial hair, eating egg sandwiches and the like. The air in the carriages was humming with static from dozens of nylon overcoats, and I witnessed a very strange phenomenon that every time another train was seen every single one of them reached out for a pen and wrote something in a notebook.
Mind you, this was not really public transport as it was always on railtours
Mind you, this was not really public transport as it was always on railtours
On the underground (Piccy Line), half a carriage full of Morris Men got on with flagons of ale (this was before the alcohol ban) and encouraged us all to sing along to the Wild Rover. I thought this would be unusual before reading the rest of this thread.
There are those who find some of the people heading to the same gigs as me look a bit odd but I couldn't possibly comment (7 foot bloke in a skirt, check; 18 inch blue mohican, check).
Think the oddest I've been dressed in is a brilliant white denim flared suit (think Saturday night fever) when 17. Got some comments on the Baildon-Ilkley service.
There are those who find some of the people heading to the same gigs as me look a bit odd but I couldn't possibly comment (7 foot bloke in a skirt, check; 18 inch blue mohican, check).
Think the oddest I've been dressed in is a brilliant white denim flared suit (think Saturday night fever) when 17. Got some comments on the Baildon-Ilkley service.
starrymarkb
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I saw a few of those in Germany
I think we probably go to the same sort of gig (Have done the bloke in skirt thing, but don't have the hair for the mohawk...)
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