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TRAINSPOTTERS?
Posted: 23 Jun 2006, 14:52
by tubeguru
Are there any trainspotters on this forum, by the way?
By that I mean people who go out looking for non-Underground trains, mainly locomotives?
Posted: 23 Jun 2006, 17:08
by jonny
occasionally, but i don't see the point in doing it if you don't have the time so i don't tend to much -- unless i just have the impulse.
Posted: 23 Jun 2006, 20:27
by tc
*whistles*
http://www.railforums.co.uk/ *whistles* ... *walks off quietly*
Posted: 23 Jun 2006, 21:17
by The Raven
I know I’m defiantly not a train spotter
I see the underground as a logical problem.
Is there the ultimate route out there that noone has ever though of?
Also overground trains are boring, always late and expensive.
They have no soul
"
Oh there goes a Class C 4916
"
Posted: 23 Jun 2006, 21:24
by tc
OMG, I've scored 43019!!! EXCELLENT!!!
Posted: 23 Jun 2006, 22:22
by tubeguru
How on earth can anyone get excited about seeing a 43?
There was mild excitement at Willesden Junction last night when two DRS 20's came through but now I really am showing my anorak ...
I'm very much a freight train spotter to be honest.
Posted: 23 Jun 2006, 22:52
by tc
DRS 20s aren't that rare ... generally there is gen over at Railforums about freight and whatnot
Posted: 23 Jun 2006, 23:20
by Root
I'm no trainspotter, but I do like to try out all the different Train Operators (incidentally, Southern are one of my favourites so far). and if I see a train I will try and work out where it is going and where it has come from using my skillz and knowledge. Never gone out deliberately looking for them.
Zones 1-6 National Rail Challenge anyone?
Posted: 24 Jun 2006, 00:07
by tpfkar
I wish to make it clear that I am completely avoiding this thread.
That is all. Thank you.
Posted: 24 Jun 2006, 00:35
by petermiller36
its topics like this that make me ashamed to be a Tube Challenger. sorry.
Posted: 24 Jun 2006, 01:21
by Nutteronabus
***** wrote: I guess Amtrak locos (which are fcuking huge - i've seen one!) don't share the same appeal.
You can say '*******,' you know...
Posted: 24 Jun 2006, 09:35
by tubeguru
Isn't it funny how trainspotting has such a stigma attached to it?
Trainspotter = saddo who is inept in some way.
Posted: 24 Jun 2006, 17:48
by Sillert, V.I.
It is, of course, possible to be a saddo who is inept in some way, without being a trainspotter.
Posted: 24 Jun 2006, 18:40
by jonny
Zones 1-6 National Rail Challenge anyone?
This is an idea which has been suggested before. I would do it but it looks far too complicated and would take too long.
Posted: 24 Jun 2006, 21:59
by hannah b
Hehe.
My uncle used to take me train spotting.
Now he collects petrol cans.
He took me to a steam fair a few years back and we drank hot cider and watched those motorcycles that climb up walls in a circle. What's it called? Wall of death?
He took me to my first indie gig.
He's taken me crop circling and explain all things avebury and stone henge.
He gave me my first record player.
And he always gets me pissed.
And because of all of this I think trainspotters are cool.
I may be misinformed.
Hx