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skatman Flag 05 Aug 15 5.48pm Send a Private Message to skatman Add skatman as a friend

Quote collier row eagle at 03 Aug 2015 4.47pm

I once got on a train at Balham and was travelling to norbury, I was in a compartment with one other gentleman , during the journey, the gentlemen leaned forward and tried to touch my p****, I found it very upsetting, I was about 14 and it was my first experience of a homosexual, but wasn't my last, the dirty b*stard.

Cucking tells this story a lot better.


 

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adrian b Flag Landrindod, Wales 05 Aug 15 7.14pm Send a Private Message to adrian b Add adrian b as a friend


There were two stations at Crystal Palace once, upper and lower level.

 

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nickgusset Flag Shizzlehurst 05 Aug 15 7.17pm

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Quote nickgusset at 04 Aug 2015 10.45am

We've decided to get the train to Spain rather than fly. Has saved us about 500 sovs.


Should be drier too. I seem to recall seeing somewhere that Spanish precipitation is predominately attracted to aerial vehicles.

Edited by Superfly (05 Aug 2015 4.02pm)

falls mainly on the PLAIN.

Good grief.


Thanks for that, I was worried about getting wet whilst using a tool to take small amounts of wood off of a plank outdoors.


...and you a teacher ? God help the youth of this country.


I'll use the summer holidays excuse.

 

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MPE Flag Maidstone 05 Aug 15 8.14pm Send a Private Message to MPE Add MPE as a friend

Sometimes the train I go on has windows, sometimes air conditioning, takes an hour on the train from home to London. Sometimes I buy a ticket on the train,but if no one selling tickets on the train, I have to get one the other end.

 


Just when I thought that I was out...........they pull me back in

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suicideatselhurst Flag crawley 05 Aug 15 8.25pm

Quote Dulwichsteve at 05 Aug 2015 11.07am

Quote nickgusset at 04 Aug 2015 10.45am

We've decided to get the train to Spain rather than fly. Has saved us about 500 sovs.

I don't think you can get the train to Spain but I might be wrong.

Years ago I got trains (plural) to Spain a few times and we also had to get a bus from home to Reading Station, the Underground from Paddington to Victoria (although once we got a cab because the Tube was on strike) and a ferry from Dover to Calais (although sometimes from Folkestone to Boulogne) and then a train to Paris where we got the Metro (that's French for Underground-they didn't have the free paper) from Gare du Nord to Gare du something or other and then another train to the French/Spanish border where we had to change trains again.

Here's where it gets really interesting. The reason we had to change at the border is because Spanish trains have a wider gauge than the rest of Europe so the French train couldn't go on the Spanish tracks without falling off. Although there was one train (a red one I remember) which could because somewhere beneath the Pyrenees they changed the bogies!!!! But that train was more expensive so we didn't go on it.

Of course this was all before the Channel Tunnel so maybe you can go to Spain by train (singular).Although you might have to take the red train or your own bogies


Edited by Dulwichsteve (05 Aug 2015 11.26am)

that is interesting...its because we brits built the french railway system

 


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kayjaybee Flag orpington 05 Aug 15 8.46pm Send a Private Message to kayjaybee Add kayjaybee as a friend

I don't go on the train much (even though i have a freedom pass) but i'll have to start, it seems so much is going on according to this thread and you probably won't even notice it, what i do know is that if you are travelling from london to orpington on a stopping train, you can get off at petts wood, pop into the micro pub, The one inn the wood, have a really decent pint, and still catch the next train to orpington.

 

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gambler Flag Kent 05 Aug 15 9.19pm Send a Private Message to gambler Add gambler as a friend

Quote rednblueblood at 05 Aug 2015 6.38am

I did a 96 hour bus journey down through Chile once,thou it was more like a coach. I think coaches are better than busses as they can have toilets.


Did you have a jolly hostess
Selling crisps and tea
Providing you with drinks and theatrical winks
For a sky-high fee?

You do on the National Express. Possibly.

 

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lankygit Flag Lincoln 05 Aug 15 9.27pm Send a Private Message to lankygit Add lankygit as a friend

Quote adrian b at 03 Aug 2015 1.33pm

I had to take the Docklands Lights Railway recently and pulled up at a station called 'Pudding Mill Lane'. I wondered how it got this name, but a look out of the train window gave me a clue. The station is very close to the Olympic Stadium. Explains it all really.


The first train stop, going south from Lincoln, is Hykeham. It is on Station road.
I don`t know how it got its name though, as if it were named after the road it is on, like your example, it would be Station Road station.

Edited by lankygit (05 Aug 2015 9.28pm)

 


Is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour? [Link]

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Y Ddraig Goch Flag In The Crowd 05 Aug 15 9.54pm Send a Private Message to Y Ddraig Goch Add Y Ddraig Goch as a friend

There's a street or is it a road called

Canon Street Road in Wapping.

 


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peterg Flag Anerley 05 Aug 15 10.16pm Send a Private Message to peterg Add peterg as a friend

In the days when you could still get a train from Charing Cross to London Bridge, I got on a train intending to change at London Bridge and go to Norwood Junction from there. Turned out it didn't stop at London Bridge and the first stop was Tonbridge. When I got off and explained what had happened to a ticket collector, he didn't charge for the journey to Tonbridge, but I did have to buy a ticket to get back to London Bridge.

 


The right place at the right time

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EsussexEagle Flag 05 Aug 15 11.55pm Send a Private Message to EsussexEagle Add EsussexEagle as a friend

Quote collier row eagle at 03 Aug 2015 4.47pm

I once got on a train at Balham and was travelling to norbury, I was in a compartment with one other gentleman , during the journey, the gentlemen leaned forward and tried to touch my p****, I found it very upsetting, I was about 14 and it was my first experience of a homosexual, but wasn't my last, the dirty b*stard.

Back in the early '70s I used to get the train to school.
This involved a train from West Norwood to Clapham Junction where I changed and got the train to Waterloo.
I went to the London Nautical Grammar School and had to wear a Naval uniform.
So there I was aged 11, dressed as a sailor in the days of the old slam door trains, how I made it to adulthood I'll never know!

 

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Jimenez Flag SELHURSTPARKCHESTER,DA BRONX 06 Aug 15 12.12am Send a Private Message to Jimenez Add Jimenez as a friend

Quote lankygit at 05 Aug 2015 9.27pm

Quote adrian b at 03 Aug 2015 1.33pm

I had to take the Docklands Lights Railway recently and pulled up at a station called 'Pudding Mill Lane'. I wondered how it got this name, but a look out of the train window gave me a clue. The station is very close to the Olympic Stadium. Explains it all really.


The first train stop, going south from Lincoln, is Hykeham. It is on Station road.
I don`t know how it got its name though, as if it were named after the road it is on, like your example, it would be Station Road station.

Edited by lankygit (05 Aug 2015 9.28pm)


........and Isn't it amazing no matter where you travel in The Uk, when you leave the Train station there's always a boozer called The Railway tavern or The Junction right next door.

 


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