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Author Topic: Annoying / amusing use of completely irrelevant stock photos to illustrate press articles  (Read 404951 times)
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« Reply #780 on: January 20, 2025, 10:40:51 »

The thought of 13 hours and 20 minutes on a pungent Voyager is somewhat daunting
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« Reply #781 on: January 20, 2025, 14:38:23 »

Today's Guardian has a piece at https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jan/21/the-kindness-of-strangers-dazed-confused-and-far-from-home-a-train-worker-offered-me-a-place-to-stay with a well-travelled M7 class tank loco.
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« Reply #782 on: January 20, 2025, 15:01:16 »

The thought of 13 hours and 20 minutes on a pungent Voyager is somewhat daunting
Where's your sense of adventure   Shocked
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« Reply #783 on: January 20, 2025, 15:40:56 »

The thought of 13 hours and 20 minutes on a pungent Voyager is somewhat daunting
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It's not my sense of adventure that's the problem.  More concerned about how I could eat anything en-route and hang-on to it
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« Reply #784 on: February 06, 2025, 17:47:45 »

The thought of 13 hours and 20 minutes on a pungent Voyager is somewhat daunting
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I think he's more worried about his sense of smell.
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« Reply #785 on: February 07, 2025, 11:21:06 »

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g949m4g41o

The chap reported on the BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) having comms issues at Nantes station is a bit lost, they’ve used a photo of Tynemouth on the Tyne Wear Metro…  Roll Eyes
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