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Know where I was yesterday? ...  There's a few of them around. I'll guess Bristol. |
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« Reply #16 on: February 26, 2017, 14:54:22 » |
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There's a few of them around. I'll guess Bristol.
Hmm - I was looking at the extra "E". We established I was in Swindon yesterday just earlier in this thread  |
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« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2017, 18:23:44 » |
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Swindon bus station (probably).
Correct .... surprised to see a Cambridge bus in Swindon. That's the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway system for you.    |
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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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When Routemasters were scrapped, many of them went abroad as promotions and party vehicles. I saw a few in Warsaw, where I happened to be at the time. There can't be many vehicles so iconic of one town* as a red Routemaster. I can think of yellow cabs, San Francisco cable cars... not sure what else.
*Even if actually used elsewhere too.
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« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2017, 13:00:33 » |
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When Routemasters were scrapped, many of them went abroad as promotions and party vehicles. I saw a few in Warsaw, where I happened to be at the time. There can't be many vehicles so iconic of one town* as a red Routemaster. I can think of yellow cabs, San Francisco cable cars... not sure what else.
*Even if actually used elsewhere too.
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« Reply #20 on: February 27, 2017, 13:06:45 » |
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When Routemasters were scrapped, many of them went abroad as promotions and party vehicles. I saw a few in Warsaw, where I happened to be at the time. There can't be many vehicles so iconic of one town* as a red Routemaster. I can think of yellow cabs, San Francisco cable cars... not sure what else.
*Even if actually used elsewhere too.
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« Reply #21 on: February 27, 2017, 13:30:21 » |
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... not sure what else.
Blackpool trams? Clyde paddlers? |
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« Reply #22 on: February 27, 2017, 14:15:39 » |
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When Routemasters were scrapped, many of them went abroad as promotions and party vehicles.
sure did..........  and it wasn't just limited to Routemasters, some Leyland Atlanteans also (like this one apparently headed for Westward Ho! via Barnstaple from downtown Victoria BC)........  |
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« Reply #23 on: February 27, 2017, 15:57:14 » |
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Funny, I thought westward ho! from Victoria would take you across the Pacific...
Good examples above (though not all of the Blackpool trams are that distinctive – but the ones that are, definitely are). I suppose black cabs still say "London" to most of the world.
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« Reply #24 on: February 27, 2017, 18:54:35 » |
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Where's that? Sorry, my pedant radar went off. As a former resident of that town, it always stands out when the letter 'e' is used one too many times. You mean you admit having lived there! (I get stick for living in Swindon so time to strike back!) |
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« Reply #25 on: February 27, 2017, 19:25:52 » |
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(I get stick for living in Swindon so time to strike back!) I used to live in Swindon. It was a Nythe place where I lived. |
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« Reply #26 on: February 27, 2017, 20:32:42 » |
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I thought you said it wasn't that Nythe?
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« Reply #27 on: February 27, 2017, 20:37:33 » |
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No, it was Knots-o-Nythe. |
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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.
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« Reply #28 on: February 27, 2017, 20:39:00 » |
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He's used that joke before. |
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