Nicknames for TOCs

[stanley T]

Nicknames for rail companies, usually wittily disparaging, were common in the pre-grouping era e.g. the two railways that served Kent were the Slow Easy and Careless, and the Lose'em Smash'em and Turnover.

I recently learnt that what used to be God's Wonderful Railway is now Worst Late Western. Any more such nicknames for TOCs, or can we make some up?

 

[Pumbaa]

CrossCountry - CrapCountry
FCC - First Crapital Connect/Worst Crapital Connect
ME - Merseyfail

 

[Minilad]

Vermin Trains

 

[ainsworth74]

Northern Fail

Edit: Also my 3,000 post. I wish had been something a little more substantial than this

 

[Pumbaa]

Scotfail
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Although history now, Silverwank.

 

[MCR247]

Miseryrail (often heard miserytravel when reffering to the merseytravel 142s)

 

[Intermodal]

Miseryrail

 

[Minilad]

I think anything that replaces rail with fail or first with worst should be banned on the grounds of being too obvious !!

 

[NightatLaira]

Not really a toc but:

Hammersh*t & City line? Certainly used to be known as such about 10 years ago in London - it has improved massively tho since.

 

[LE Greys]

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Nicknames for rail companies, usually wittily disparaging, were common in the pre-grouping era e.g. the two railways that served Kent were the Slow Easy and Careless, and the Lose'em Smash'em and Turnover.

I recently learnt that what used to be God's Wonderful Railway is now Worst Late Western. Any more such nicknames for TOCs, or can we make some up?

My version was "Land 'em, Smash 'em and Over, for the same reason that the LMS was Lose 'em, Mix 'em and Smash 'em. It's also Long, Mouldy and Slow.

Others I've heard include:
WCML = Wonky Coaches Mainly Late
West of England Line = WOERail
SWT = Scheming Wasteful Tangle
AXC = Always Extremely C***

 

[bnm]

Third Rate Western

 

[33056]

Farce Capital Disconnect

Missing Link (though they were wonderful compared to LM )

 

[Bon Accord]

Last Scotfail
Notwork Fail
Failcack

 

[starrymarkb]

Great Way Round

 

[electra27000]

Not really a toc but:

Hammersh*t & City line? Certainly used to be known as such about 10 years ago in London - it has improved massively tho since.

It's always been known as the Hot & Cold, to LU staff.

 

[The Planner]

First Capital Punishment

 

[Scotrail84]

When it was Railtrack we used to joke with the boys and call them Snailtrack

 

[GNERman]

Some i've heard -

ATW - Absolute Terrible W*nkers
Chiltern Snailways
EC - Extremely Crap
FCC - Worst Crapital Disconnect
FGW - Worst Late Western
FHT - Worst Dull Trains
FTPE - Worst Transvestite Express
Miseryrail
National Excuse East Anglia
SC - Sh*trail
Virmin Trains

 

[SWTCommuter]

Sunk Without Trace

 

[Jdrowlands]

Nitwit Rail

 

[Lampshade]

Merseyrail = Miseryfail

 

[FLHH East Anglia]

WestAngliaGreatNorthern(WAGN)-WeAreGoingNowhere.







Hopefully the mods wont see fit to delete THIS post:cry:

 

[iphone76]

National Depress East Anglia

 

[Turbocharger]

Terrible Pathetic Excuses.

 

[lookingforit35]

Back in the day, Network SouthEast was known as Notwork SouthEast.

 

[stanley T]

Slow and Extortionate Railway (which covers their classic lines and High Speed respectively).

 

[MCR247]

Not really a toc but:

Hammersh*t & City line? Certainly used to be known as such about 10 years ago in London - it has improved massively tho since.

I've heard the 'Hammersmith & S****y Line' before

 

[LE Greys]

I've heard the 'Hammersmith & S****y Line' before

As pronounced by Sean Connery Reverse the name of the Scottish soap 'River City', then do an impression - kind of sums it up.

Since they come up a lot, some other old ones:
GWR = Gone With Regret
GC = Gone Completely
Canterbury & Whitstable = Crab and Winkle
OW&WR = Old Worse and Worse
S&DJR = Slow, Dirty and Jolly Rotten (the company retaliated with Swift and Delightful)
LB&SCR = Long, Boring and Slow Coach Railway or Loud Buzzes and Sparkling Crackles (pioneer of main-line electrification) - earlier was Liver and Bacon (partly because of the livery)

And one for Southeastern = Seems Eternity

 

[Helvellyn]

Not a TOC, but one I've always liked is that for the RCTS (Railway Correspondence & Travel Society) - Royal Corps of Train Spotters.

 

[schwa]

I have heard "First Great Sh*t" come from a passenger before in relation to FGW.

This however it not the representative opinion of myself etc.