DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
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If only somebody could teach me how to snap my fingers before it's too late ...
Inspired by last night's Martin Lewis Money program, Mrs Poacher decided to follow his advice and check her state pension entitlement. (She's relied on my income for many years!)
We sat at the PC, laboriously working our way through all the steps needed to register for government gateway only to be told on what I presume was the last page that the system was overloaded and try again later!
Actually, I think this is far from trivial - it's a major thing.
100% with you on this one."Train" as in " Flying Scotsman, the famous train,100 years old this year...." It's NOT a TRAIN it's a LOCOMOTIVE, Loco, or Steam Engine, if you must.
- and as for "train station" .......
"Train" as in " Flying Scotsman, the famous train,100 years old this year...." It's NOT a TRAIN it's a LOCOMOTIVE, Loco, or Steam Engine, if you must.
- and as for "train station" .......
The wife who goes us all to tidy the house for the cleaner...I thought that's her job!
I might employ a tidier to tidy before the cleaner!!
Think there is a bit of logic these days in referring to train station rather than railway station as in the main these days they are used to get on and off a train and the rest of the services that use to be available are no more. As for the actual Flying Scotsman train that is 99 years old having previously been known as the Special Scotch express.
However, "Train Station" still grates whenever I hear it.
"Train" as in " Flying Scotsman, the famous train,100 years old this year...." It's NOT a TRAIN it's a LOCOMOTIVE, Loco, or Steam Engine, if you must.
- and as for "train station" .......
I've always called it a train station, because it's a station where the train stops/departs. What's wrong with that? Is it only the carriages that are the train i.e. the hauliage unit is not a train but a locomotive? Is it like calling the trailers of a lorry "a lorry", when in fact the only part of it that's a lorry is the cab and engine?
Whatever the case, it seems to me that you can't have carriages that tow themsleves, so it's entirely sensible to call the whole thing a train.