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Title: Off-message GWR publicity Post by: Richard Fairhurst on December 08, 2017, 16:42:37 Not sure GWR's publicity agency has read the Railway Bylaws recently.
Exhibit 1, your honour: "Passenger given £50 fine for putting his feet up on the seat (http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/06/train-passenger-gets-a-50-fine-for-putting-his-feet-up-on-the-seat-5605605/)" Exhibit 2: (http://www.systemed.net/temp/gwr_ad.jpg) Title: Re: Off-message GWR publicity Post by: bobm on December 08, 2017, 17:06:33 Reminds me of a complaint GWR apparently received about the Famous Five campaign.
A farmer said the cartoon film encouraged people to let their dogs run loose in fields of livestock... Title: Re: Off-message GWR publicity Post by: TonyK on December 09, 2017, 00:22:41 Reminds me of a complaint GWR apparently received about the Famous Five campaign. A farmer said the cartoon film encouraged people to let their dogs run loose in fields of livestock... Yes, but Timmy is so well behaved, except when there are rounds of ham sandwiches made by a buxom farmer's wife to be had. (I added the "buxom" bit myself, part-way through the third Famous Five book I read. I wasn't sure if it meant what I wanted it to mean, or if they lived in the Peak District.) This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |