Post a lie about the poster above.

[rogerzilla]

Doug was a toilet tester on the GWR HSTs. His job was to ensure all Up trains ran out of flush water before Newport, and all Down trains ran out before Reading.

 

[All uphill]

Rog was also promoted to toilet tester. When he went home to tell his mum he was flushed with success.

He also told his cisterns.

 

[Moon bunny]

The 'Cockney Sparrow' was the depot logo for Stratford (Diesel Depot code 'SF' - See the hat), East London. The old railway works and depot was on the site where the Olympic Park and so on is now (I kid you not).

On a wall near me:

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Doug was a toilet tester on the GWR HSTs. His job was to ensure all Up trains ran out of flush water before Newport, and all Down trains ran out before Reading.

I was also an 'Auxiliary Gardner', seeing as everything went onto the tracks...

Rog was also promoted to toilet tester. When he went home to tell his mum he was flushed with success.

He also told his cisterns.

This is a tissue of lies and... Oh... Wait...

On a wall near me:
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Nice!

York, I presume?

 

[Rocky]

Doug has just joined the Ramblers. Looking at his post, they are already having an effect

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Talking of ramblers, Rocky has asked me about the depot crests and logos mentioned before with the Stratford Cockney Sparrow.

Of course @Moon bunny, you will then be aware of all the other depot 'crests' and logos (mainly freight (but also some Intercity and normal passenger) depots, reflecting something from the area.

Most were never coloured like Stratford, but the Thornaby (TE) (Middlesborough) Kingfisher was one and the 'Crewe Electric' (CE) Eagle could also be at times.

Off the top of my head, I can remember...

Inverness (IS): Stag
Motherwell (ML): Hammer And Anvil (reflecting the areas big Steel making heritage)
Haymarket (HA) (Murrayfield): Edinburgh Castle
I can't remember if Ayr had one (not all did).
Carlisle Currock (or was it Upperby?): A Fox
Thornaby (TE): Kingfisher
Crewe Electric (CE): Eagle (a reference to a once immense aerial wooden structure that afforded railway workers a safe walkway between the station and the various yards to the north of the station, called the 'Eagle Platform'... Or something like that).
Crewe Diesel (CD): A cat (I think... This being Cheshire, after all).
Tynsley (TI) (Sheffield) A Yorkshire Rose)
Bescot (Birmingham) (BS): A Saddle (reflecting the areas leather and blacksmith/metal making industries)
Tysley (Birmingham) (TY): A Bear
Saltley (Birmingham): A Seagull.
Toton (Nottinghamshire) (TO): The Cooling Towers of Toton power station
Leicester: A Panther.
Aylesbury: A Goose.
Cardiff Canton (CF): A Ram... I think.

... I am sure Old Oak Common (OC) (West London) had one, but I cannot remember what it was now, a bit like Wigan Springs Branch (SP), Immingham (IM) (Hull), Westbury (WE) (Wiltshire) and Swansea Landore (SD?).

Willesden (WD) (North London): A Greyhound (it was the main depot for the West Coast Electrics, so powerful and fast)

I am not sure Bounds Green (BN) (North London) serving the East Coast fleet ever had one, but I have a weird feeling that Hornsea did.

Stratford (SF): Cockney Sparrow

Stewarts Lane (SL) (Wandsworth/Battersea): The Battersea Power Station
Hither Green (HG) (Lewisham): An Oast House

Eastleigh (EH) (Southampton): A Spitfire

Plymouth Laira (LA): A Galleon

St Blazey (BZ) (Cornwall): A lizard
Long Rock (Penzance): St Michael's Mount.



ANNYWAY, sorry, as you were...

 

[Speicher]

Doug is known as a track basher. How many times have you travelled the line between Georgemas Junction and Thurso?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

A selection... There were more though.

How could I have forgotten about the Eastfield (north Glasgow) (ED) Scotty Dog, the Immingham (Hull) (IM) star and garter(?) and the Westbury (WE) Stalion?:

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

A selection... There were more though.

How could I have forgotten about the Eastfield (north Glasgow) (ED) Scotty Dog, the Immingham (Hull) (IM) star and garter(?) and the Westbury (WE) Stalion?:

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Crewe Electric is not there for a start


Annyway.

I am getting dangerously off topic.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Doug is known as a track basher. How many times have you travelled the line between Georgemas Junction and Thurso?

Weirdly, only twice ☺️😆

 

[Speicher]

Weirdly, only twice ☺️😆

I have done it about three times!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I have done it about three times!

😝

Strangely I am not very good on a lot of Scottish lines - I always traveled south to try and see the more 'exotic' traction. ☺️😆

 

[rogerzilla]

Laira had the little ship, of course.

This reminds me that Mad Doug once went to Plymouth to see the famous 'ho he'd heard about, and was disappointed to find it was just a hill.

 

[Rocky]

Talking of exotic and women.

Rog asked a lady friend if she fancied coming round and sharing some dried exotic fruit.

She said it sounds like a date

 

[rogerzilla]

Rocky likes to wave his aubergine around, which is why he is banned from all major supermarkets.