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Weird Things You See People Do on the Railway
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It is indeed the 222s I 'm referring to! It's not as though it's not clearly marked. Rather amusing in a way.
03_179
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You surreptitious spotter, you
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Spotted that today at Sheffield
It is amusing at times. Especially as the door is a different colour if there is no wording on it for some reason.
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Really shouldn't need reminding that they weren't in the Etihad, especially if there were people in the station.
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Exactly. I didn't think people could be so stupid but I was wrong.
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I remember a few years back seeing a commuter boarding a Leeds-Sheffield 150, reaching into his bag to pull out his own seat cover and place it over his seat before sitting down. I know there's some scruffy people travel by train but that's taking cleamliness a bit too far.....
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I could understand if it was a cushion for an ironing board.
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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...
Saw that on a TW Metro years ago.
Chavvy type bloke got on, screamed into his phone, smashed it off the opposite door and got off again
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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
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Or standing by a Capitalstar at Euston and asking if this is the Glasgow Central train!
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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.
tsr
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Some trams in the UK can do that.
lewisf
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Croydon too. The door button flashes to let you know it’s activated
Ive always found it slightly funny that when train doors just close on people they instantly turn and look directly to the station staff as if they will magically reopen them. I understand why now as that's what I subconsciously did today at Waterloo. It was the regular 455 home for me rather than a diverted 450 for a change.
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Currently sat in Crewe platform 6 waiting room. I noticed a phone on a chair below the departures board, no-one nearby. I got up thinking I would hand it in at the cafe counter, only for a couple sitting two tables away by the platform 11 exit door to shout out “it’s mine”. What the...?
I said “why is it here when you’re over there?”, and was told “it’s okay, we can see it”. Wonder if it’s some sort of honesty survey!
Edit: Ah, I see now, it must have been plugged into the socket there. Didn’t notice the lead.
I said “why is it here when you’re over there?”, and was told “it’s okay, we can see it”. Wonder if it’s some sort of honesty survey!
Edit: Ah, I see now, it must have been plugged into the socket there. Didn’t notice the lead.
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Apart from seeing a 'Spice' partaker almost faceplant in front of a 150 at Salford Crescent, perhaps the strangest thing that I have seen took place at Pontyclun station last November.
I was waiting to get a service to Bridgend, when a freight train travelling towards Cardiff approached Pontyclun station and I could see that it was slowing down rather than keeping its line speed as the signal ahead was green (I think that this signal has recently been re-sited). There was a man on the opposite platform in an orange jacket and as the train stopped on the platform he got onto the train (Class 66, medium length train) and after two minutes the train started up again and they went on their way.
No harm was done, other than the following train (a Class 800 Swansea-London Paddington service) had to go through Pontyclun at a slower than normal speed.
I was waiting to get a service to Bridgend, when a freight train travelling towards Cardiff approached Pontyclun station and I could see that it was slowing down rather than keeping its line speed as the signal ahead was green (I think that this signal has recently been re-sited). There was a man on the opposite platform in an orange jacket and as the train stopped on the platform he got onto the train (Class 66, medium length train) and after two minutes the train started up again and they went on their way.
No harm was done, other than the following train (a Class 800 Swansea-London Paddington service) had to go through Pontyclun at a slower than normal speed.
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I admit that many moons ago I could be found with my Ian Allan books collecting the numbers of A4s, Black 5s and their like. I know there are still a devoted band who carry on the tradition with EMUs and Pacers.
I was recently waiting on a bleak platform with only a small wind swept shelter as rain and sleet began. 2 or 3 sheltering there were such people and they'd notebooks mostly full of freight locomotives. However, when a freight train rumbled through I was amazed to see one chap frantically noting the numbers of each wagon. Surely that must carry the hobby to extremes!
Is there a book of freight wagon numbers to record them in?
I was recently waiting on a bleak platform with only a small wind swept shelter as rain and sleet began. 2 or 3 sheltering there were such people and they'd notebooks mostly full of freight locomotives. However, when a freight train rumbled through I was amazed to see one chap frantically noting the numbers of each wagon. Surely that must carry the hobby to extremes!
Is there a book of freight wagon numbers to record them in?
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pdeaves
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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.
Steve Harris
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Short answer, yes.
Long answer..... There used to be in the 80's and 90's ( mate collected MGR wagon numbers). Don't know about now, but presume there still is or some kind of PC based version is available.
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!
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!
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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!
I'd probably call it 'carriage' on a unit. Loco at the rear would be 'shovage'. Apparently there is much debate among railtourers about whether assistance on gradients from the loco at the back can be counted.
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