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Unusual objects carried onto trains
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That would be illegal on, for example, Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner.
I'm sure I've been told about a wheelbarrow of bricks that someone tried to get on one of our trains with.
On a separate note, my Grandpa used to be a health inspector and regularly supplied the local school with jars of bulls' eyes. A bus conductress nearly fell down the stairs when my Dad asked for a ticket for him and his friends and produced a jar with all eyeballs pointing towards her!
On a separate note, my Grandpa used to be a health inspector and regularly supplied the local school with jars of bulls' eyes. A bus conductress nearly fell down the stairs when my Dad asked for a ticket for him and his friends and produced a jar with all eyeballs pointing towards her!
Wyvern
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Somebody did once move a complete farm, apart from the buildings, by train.
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trainophile
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I'd love you to elaborate on that, seeing as in my interpretation "a farm" is land, buildings, machinery and possibly livestock. What did they actually move?
Wyvern
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The whole lot from Yorkshire to Sussex.
Mind you they hired a special train. It was back in the fifties - there's a BTF film called "Farmer Moving South"
In fact its on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bWp1-_voBM
Mind you they hired a special train. It was back in the fifties - there's a BTF film called "Farmer Moving South"
In fact its on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bWp1-_voBM
Gemz91
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Had a passnger with a snake in a box once (only realised when they were getting off), a passenger regulary gets on with her turtle in a cat box. Also had a lad with a small tank with two bearded dragons in with a complete set up.
PHILIPE
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What about a lighted cigarette.
Apparently it also used to be common for whole circusses [circii?] - animals included - to move from town to town by train - usually on Sunday mornings.
PHILIPE
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Bertram Mills Circus used to own their own train which BR operated, of course. I racall seeing elephants walking through the (trunk to tail of the one in front) from the unloading siding to the circus site.
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Wow thanks for that. Used to love watching it when I was a child but haven't seen it for years
Lovely - thank you for that.
I'd not come across it before.
I obviously had a very deprived childhood.
Thank you, also, Philipe, for the Bertram Mills reference.
That was fast breeding!
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I think they bought them
Mutant Lemming
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At one time microwaves would have been on the list but with the cheap mass production of them and lack of catering facilities on LM their presence is becoming passe among the daring do of rail travellers.
PermitToTravel
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Getting this down the stairs at LET was fun:
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Trog
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I seem to remember being told that Kensington Olympia station, was the only station in the UK with a dedicated elephant dock.
fairysdad
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Surely there must've been another one unless these poor elephants were loaded at Kensington Olympia, taken around the country on trains, then unloaded again at Kensington Olympia
*gets coat*
pras
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I used to work in Munich, Germany
I used to come "home" (UK, for me) for Christmas but not all of the ex-pat community did. I got told this tale when I got back after New Year.
A group of mostly English speakers decided to have a traditional UK/Ireland Christmas dinner on Christmas day. The centrepiece was to be a Turkey with all the trimmings. They had a suitable venue with an oven but none of them had access to a car.
Things did not quite go to plan I gather:
On Christmas eve they collected the turkey from a butcher's and conveyed it to the venue by U-Bahn (Munich's Underground).
They prepared the turkey and stuffing etc., put it in the oven. The oven did not work!
One of the group said they could use the oven at their place. The oven-ready turkey-with-trimmings is covered in foil and taken on the U-Bahn to said individual's digs. The turkey would not fit in the oven!
Another of the group said that it would fit in the oven at their place. Another U-Bahn ride for the turkey. This time everything worked to plan except that the turkey took ages to cook.
It is now Christmas day. They take the hot, freshly roasted turkey on the U-Bahn back to the venue where it is belatedly enjoyed by all.
I think some of the journeys involved changing U-Bahn lines at different levels and so-on.
I can just imagine the Muncheners on the U-Bahn thinking "These foreigners are crazy" :roll:
Good times
I used to come "home" (UK, for me) for Christmas but not all of the ex-pat community did. I got told this tale when I got back after New Year.
A group of mostly English speakers decided to have a traditional UK/Ireland Christmas dinner on Christmas day. The centrepiece was to be a Turkey with all the trimmings. They had a suitable venue with an oven but none of them had access to a car.
Things did not quite go to plan I gather:
On Christmas eve they collected the turkey from a butcher's and conveyed it to the venue by U-Bahn (Munich's Underground).
They prepared the turkey and stuffing etc., put it in the oven. The oven did not work!
One of the group said they could use the oven at their place. The oven-ready turkey-with-trimmings is covered in foil and taken on the U-Bahn to said individual's digs. The turkey would not fit in the oven!
Another of the group said that it would fit in the oven at their place. Another U-Bahn ride for the turkey. This time everything worked to plan except that the turkey took ages to cook.
It is now Christmas day. They take the hot, freshly roasted turkey on the U-Bahn back to the venue where it is belatedly enjoyed by all.
I think some of the journeys involved changing U-Bahn lines at different levels and so-on.
I can just imagine the Muncheners on the U-Bahn thinking "These foreigners are crazy" :roll:
Good times
Surely there must've been another one unless these poor elephants were loaded at Kensington Olympia, taken around the country on trains, then unloaded again at Kensington Olympia
*gets coat*
If I recall correctly this was because for years through the Forties to Sixties Bertram Mills Circus was resident at Olympia over Christmas and had winter quarters near Ascot where the animals and paraphernalia were unloaded, I believe in Ascot East Yard, from where the Elephants were walked to their quarters other exotic animals going in cages by road.
deltic1989
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I used to work in Munich, Germany
I used to come "home" (UK, for me) for Christmas but not all of the ex-pat community did. I got told this tale when I got back after New Year.
A group of mostly English speakers decided to have a traditional UK/Ireland Christmas dinner on Christmas day. The centrepiece was to be a Turkey with all the trimmings. They had a suitable venue with an oven but none of them had access to a car.
Things did not quite go to plan I gather:
On Christmas eve they collected the turkey from a butcher's and conveyed it to the venue by U-Bahn (Munich's Underground).
They prepared the turkey and stuffing etc., put it in the oven. The oven did not work!
One of the group said they could use the oven at their place. The oven-ready turkey-with-trimmings is covered in foil and taken on the U-Bahn to said individual's digs. The turkey would not fit in the oven!
Another of the group said that it would fit in the oven at their place. Another U-Bahn ride for the turkey. This time everything worked to plan except that the turkey took ages to cook.
It is now Christmas day. They take the hot, freshly roasted turkey on the U-Bahn back to the venue where it is belatedly enjoyed by all.
I think some of the journeys involved changing U-Bahn lines at different levels and so-on.
I can just imagine the Muncheners on the U-Bahn thinking "These foreigners are crazy" :roll:
Good times
Maybe the locals thought it was some kind of British Christmas tradition. The Turkey U-bahn challenge.
causton
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"How quickly can you take this cooked turkey to every Zone 1 London Underground station?" I can see a challenge coming on!
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Please don't. It's bad enough when people take smelly curry and kebabs onto the underground late at night.
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Scotty
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No livestock allowed on LUL! LOL!
What about deadstock?
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