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« Reply #90 on: February 11, 2017, 22:21:39 »

This could start to sound an old episode of Reginald Perrin

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Seventeen minutes late, water seeping through the cables at Effingham Junction - there was a lot of Effingham and a good deal of Blindingham!

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« Reply #91 on: February 28, 2017, 09:32:21 »

This could start to sound an old episode of Reginald Perrin

Life imitating art today:

https://twitter.com/SW_Trains/status/836281010270703616

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#DisruptionSWT Services may be delayed through #Bookham, reports of an escaped Llama on the line

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« Reply #92 on: February 28, 2017, 09:49:10 »

I perused that report..... Roll Eyes
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« Reply #93 on: February 28, 2017, 18:36:38 »

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« Reply #94 on: February 28, 2017, 22:34:22 »

This could start to sound an old episode of Reginald Perrin

Life imitating art today:

https://twitter.com/SW_Trains/status/836281010270703616

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#DisruptionSWT Services may be delayed through #Bookham, reports of an escaped Llama on the line

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I'm used to delays in the evening going home to Bookham. Normally on time or 2 or 3 minutes late but last nights delays were a little bit longer than normal but that was due to signal failures at or near Clapham Junction. Or so I thought.....

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Seventeen minutes late, water seeping through the cables at Effingham Junction - there was a lot of Effingham and a good deal of Blindingham!

Priceless!

Incidentally Effingham Junction is the next station on the line from Bookham.
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« Reply #95 on: March 01, 2017, 15:42:48 »


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I can help here. The llama is a quadruped which lives in the big rivers like the Amazon. It has two ears, a heart, a forehead, and a beak for eating honey...
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« Reply #96 on: March 01, 2017, 18:55:32 »

It is also bigger than a frog .
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« Reply #97 on: March 01, 2017, 19:48:14 »

If you see one where people are swimming, you must shout "Cuidado! Llamas" - look out, there are llamas.

Although the ones I saw last month in Argentina seemed placid enough.
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« Reply #98 on: March 01, 2017, 20:18:44 »

Rather expensive to buy one .. was going to call it alarm analeg !
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« Reply #99 on: March 02, 2017, 10:17:14 »

Missing from the list:

an escaped puma, Chessington North
badger eating a junction box at New Malden
somebody stealing the lines at Surbiton

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Also, I don't think I saw "overcrowding due to the operator refusing to use loco-hauled stock to increase capacity and blaming everything on the lack of extra DMUs (Diesel Multiple Unit) for them to lease" on the list.
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« Reply #100 on: March 02, 2017, 11:27:53 »

If you see one where people are swimming, you must shout "Cuidado! Llamas" - look out, there are llamas.

Also worth remembering, they are larger than frogs.

Here's a short educational film, set to music, that tells you all about the llama:

https://youtu.be/FbwkkXGmFrI

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« Reply #101 on: March 02, 2017, 17:52:00 »

Thankyou Mac I've not seen that in years  Grin.
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« Reply #102 on: May 08, 2017, 15:28:52 »

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« Reply #103 on: May 08, 2017, 17:38:32 »

Cue Peru lame llama jokes.....
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« Reply #104 on: May 08, 2017, 18:23:13 »

See above !.
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