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Thread #120919   Message #2636751
Posted By: GUEST,Edthefolkie
20-May-09 - 02:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: UK Rail Jargon
Subject: RE: BS: UK Rail Jargon
LMS 3F 0-6-0T - Jocko. Or Jinty. Jocko presumably because some of them were built by North British, Jinty because it's an E. Mids dialect word meaning "Wren" & by implication "small"

Bulleid Q1 - Charlie

Ground signal - Tommy Dodd

Recent unintentional funny from on-train manager or whatever they call the guard now:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we are now on our final approach to St. Pancras International". Hope he had the wheels down....

Nowhere near the standard of the West Indian chap somewhere in Essex years ago who announced in a stentorian voice:

"Good Mornin' everybody, this is GUARD speakin'!"