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« Reply #555 on: March 21, 2016, 20:21:40 »
I'd hope the wheelsets were steel.
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« Reply #556 on: March 22, 2016, 09:35:45 »
Quote from: bignosemac on March 21, 2016, 20:21:40
I'd hope the wheelsets were steel.

By that logic actual horses could be called iron horses because of their steel horseshoes.  Strangely, the Latin binomial for horse suggests just that - Equus ferus    (ferus actually means wild or untamed as in ferocious rather than iron which would be ferrum). 
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« Reply #557 on: March 22, 2016, 11:34:34 »
Isn't it equites ferreis?
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« Reply #558 on: March 22, 2016, 12:13:45 »
"People called Romanes, they go the house?"  Grin
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« Reply #559 on: March 22, 2016, 12:43:37 »
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Isn't it equites ferreis?

Well, no - equites is horsemen. Try equi ferri, or ferrosi.
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« Reply #560 on: March 22, 2016, 13:47:16 »
Je suis un ferroequinologiste.
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« Reply #561 on: March 22, 2016, 13:56:34 »
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Quote from: Red Squirrel on March 22, 2016, 11:34:34
Isn't it equites ferreis?

Well, no - equites is horsemen. Try equi ferri, or ferrosi.

Well I dunno, it's rubbish, that Google Translate thing. I used 'horse of iron', which gave 'equites ferreis' which in turn translates back as 'iron horse'.

As it said on the flyleaf of my Latin Grammer:

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« Reply #562 on: March 22, 2016, 14:13:56 »
Grammer?

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« Reply #563 on: March 22, 2016, 14:41:03 »
Silly of me. Obviously I meant 'grandma'.
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« Reply #564 on: March 22, 2016, 15:27:48 »
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Silly of me. Obviously I meant 'grandma'.


Not Kelsey?
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« Reply #565 on: March 22, 2016, 17:33:03 »
Quote from: Red Squirrel on March 22, 2016, 13:56:34
Quote from: stuving on March 22, 2016, 12:43:37
Quote from: Red Squirrel on March 22, 2016, 11:34:34
Isn't it equites ferreis?

Well, no - equites is horsemen. Try equi ferri, or ferrosi.

Well I dunno, it's rubbish, that Google Translate thing. I used 'horse of iron', which gave 'equites ferreis' which in turn translates back as 'iron horse'.

As it said on the flyleaf of my Latin Grammer:

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« Reply #566 on: March 22, 2016, 22:35:50 »
I'd venture to suggest that we're going off at a tangent here - but that would be Greek, not Latin.  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #567 on: March 23, 2016, 19:25:05 »
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« Reply #568 on: April 05, 2016, 21:46:57 »
I caught a glimpse of The Green Set tonight and it appeared to be topped and tailed by power cars wrapped with the 'Building a Greater West' theme. From my distance I couldn't see if they were the green power cars carrying wraps or older FGW▸ (First Great Western)-style ones. I'd hazard a guess at the latter: why wrap the new-style ones?

As has been noted previously, it must be a nightmare trying to keep that one rake of coaches and the associated power cars together through the maintenance cycle. Or is there more than one green set now?
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« Reply #569 on: April 05, 2016, 21:51:08 »
Yes they're 'older' ones.  Just the one set done, though another major step to the 'greenification' of GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) will take place on Monday 25th April when all the front line staff are supposed to start wearing the new uniform.
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