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Celebs I've spotted but never talked to on the railway network are:
Sophie Dahl at Paddington
Claire Grogan at Victoria
Alan Bennett at Reading
Michael Grade at Salisbury
The bloke that played Boycie on an SWT▸ towards Waterloo
Ken Loach at Bath (he's a regular at Bath on a Sunday afternoon)
Jeremy Guscott at Bath
Julia Davis and her Mighty Boosh husband, Julian Barrett at Bath
Jon Richardson at Swindon (I had never heard of him before watching some comedy panel show the night before!!)
MP▸ Margaret Hodge at Bath
Robin Ince (comedian) at Paddington
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« Reply #92 on: November 28, 2014, 09:14:44 » |
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Don't suppose it crossed your mind to sneak up behind him and shout BADGER BADGER BADGER!?
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
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« Reply #93 on: April 21, 2015, 11:34:31 » |
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Stalking again today.  Danny Goffey out of 90s Britpop band Supergrass.  |
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« Reply #94 on: April 21, 2015, 22:47:06 » |
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Not on the rail network, but on the tube network if that counts - got into the lift at Regents Park a few weeks ago and spotted Rory Bremner standing at the other end. No-one else had clocked him (or maybe cared who it was), but he did smile when he realised I had.
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« Reply #95 on: April 21, 2015, 22:52:33 » |
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Word reaches me that a friend had Lorraine Chase as a travelling companion yesterday...
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« Reply #96 on: April 21, 2015, 23:08:14 » |
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Indeed I spent a very enjoyable couple of hours dining with her on the Pullman. I learned a few things about her which are not on Wikipedia! She was very amused that just before Cogload Junction, as is my habit, I took hold of my wine glass and bottle before we lurched right towards Castle Cary. She quickly surmised I was a regular traveller.
..and no she didn't have a Campari!
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« Reply #97 on: April 21, 2015, 23:15:20 » |
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Nor, I'm told, had she wafted in from Luton Airport. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaEjIlZsuTg |
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« Reply #98 on: April 21, 2015, 23:23:53 » |
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Meanwhile, not quite in the same league, but apparently I am known as the "hard egg guy" on the South Wales brunch Pullman!
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #100 on: April 21, 2015, 23:51:16 » |
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« Reply #101 on: April 22, 2015, 17:56:12 » |
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Hugh Fearnley - Whittingstall once spilt coffee on me on a Plymouth-Paddington service one Sunday afternoon and minced off without so much as an apology, the ignorant so and so! The fact that I was massively hungover didn't help.
Once sat opposite former footballer Rodney Marsh when heading West who had everyone in the carriage in stitches with various anecdotes!
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« Reply #102 on: April 22, 2015, 19:36:42 » |
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When I was about 3 (1990) I remember standing on (the old) P4 at Reading and my mum making me wave at a lady who was on an HST▸ heading towards Padd on P5 and she waved back at me. At the time I was too young to understand who it was but turned out it was Princess Diana.
As for more recent memories last year I was on a train at a private railway and Phillip Schofield was on the footplate.
Also at the same location over the years I have seen Jeremy Paxman and 'Timmy Mallet'
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« Reply #104 on: July 24, 2015, 21:42:26 » |
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Stalking again. Natural history television presenter, Nigel Marven:  |
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