JZ Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Day off today, it's not raining, so I went for a walk. Many times I have past this sign in Waterloo Road, Radstock, but for once I decided to read it. Need I add more ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Indeed. What on Earth is an Almagam? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burkitt Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Wikipedia is full of dodgy facts, but sticking with the S&D the transport section of this page is particularly amusing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catcott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 27, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27, 2011 And what is this "Slow and Dirty" they refer to? B) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 And what is this "Slow and Dirty" they refer to? B) knows as evidently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Wikipedia is full of dodgy facts, but sticking with the S&D the transport section of this page is particularly amusing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catcott Hmm, it's about time someone created the Wikipedia page for its railway station And what is this "Slow and Dirty" they refer to? B) From memories of growing up in the area, the choice of "Slow and Dirty" or "Serene and Delightful" depended on whether one's preferrences were for the GWR or the S&DJR. Was the name also used by those working on the Western? Nick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Nevard Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 The bit about my trainset (Catcott) really made me cackle. I've often wondered if the villagers when surfing the net searching their village name get rather fed up seeing 100's of snaps of toy chuff chuffs. I've had emails from a couple of people in Combwich saying that they have found the spot where the station used to be. I guess most just look at the photos and never read the text which would explain all. I feel a blog post coming on to put the record straight aboit Catcott at least! Thanks, you've livened up what has been a very dull day so far Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium spamcan61 Posted January 27, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27, 2011 Well there are a few Pines in Weymouth, rather more in Bournemouth though.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free At Last Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Day off today, it's not raining, so I went for a walk. Many times I have past passed this sign in Waterloo Road, Radstock, but for once I decided to read it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 27, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 27, 2011 From memories of growing up in the area, the choice of "Slow and Dirty" or "Serene and Delightful" depended on whether one's preferrences were for the GWR or the S&DJR. Was the name also used by those working on the Western? Nick Seemed to be in quite common use on my part of the Western (or rather the bit that at one time was 'my part'). However most of my ex S&DJR staff referred to their former railway as the 'Swift & Delightful' (although I'm blowed if I know how they reached that conclusion). Our regular reunion pub lunches still include a couple of ex S&DJtR types - they don't like the 'Darset' reunions as they seem to be full of railway enthusiasts asking silly questions and interfering with the more serious business of drinking. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibber25 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 The bit about my trainset (Catcott) really made me cackle. I've often wondered if the villagers when surfing the net searching their village name get rather fed up seeing 100's of snaps of toy chuff chuffs. I've had emails from a couple of people in Combwich saying that they have found the spot where the station used to be. I guess most just look at the photos and never read the text which would explain all. I feel a blog post coming on to put the record straight aboit Catcott at least! Thanks, you've livened up what has been a very dull day so far I think I feel an entry in Backscene coming on! Now, how do you do a screen grab off Wikipedia? CHRIS LEIGH Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 JZ, on 27 January 2011 - 12:24 , said: Day off today, it's not raining, so I went for a walk. Many times I have past passed this sign in Waterloo Road, Radstock, but for once I decided to read it. My point exactly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I think I feel an entry in Backscene coming on! Now, how do you do a screen grab off Wikipedia? CHRIS LEIGH You use Faststone FSCapture - currently paid for, but there is an earlier free version still available if you google. A very useful program Last Freeware Version of FS Capture: http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page4.html#FastStone%20Capture The latest version will cost you $19.95 - good value in my opinion Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I think I feel an entry in Backscene coming on! Now, how do you do a screen grab off Wikipedia? CHRIS LEIGH Or the cheap way, for Windows hit PrintScreen on the keyboard, paste into Paint/Photoshop*, and crop accordingly For Mac*, Apple-Shift-4 then draw a box round what you want, file appears on desktop. *I know, I said cheap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 However most of my ex S&DJR staff referred to their former railway as the 'Swift & Delightful' (although I'm blowed if I know how they reached that conclusion). Especially when you take into consideration how much time the all stations BGP to Bomo West took. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 SLOW & DELIGHTFUL, an amalgam of the GWR and SDJR nicknames would be appropriate from what I've seen on film. Ivo himself didnt help by filming at half-speed... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugsley Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Has the Wikipedia entry now been changed? I can't see any reference to Catcott Burtle station on there now. Edit - Yes it has, some miserable bu**er changed it at 17:15! (evidently after reading this thread, as cackling was mentioned ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamouti Ben Yafo Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 ...an amalgam of the GWR and SDJR nicknames would be appropriate... 'Almagam', surely? ("D'yah love yer website, boy? Then get with the program!") Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Has the Wikipedia entry now been changed? I can't see any reference to Catcott Burtle station on there now. Edit - Yes it has, some miserable bu**er changed it at 17:15! (evidently after reading this thread, as cackling was mentioned ) (Owns up to being said miserable ######). I pointed out the gaffe to the person apparently responsible and received the following response: "Thanks for letting me know - I'm not sure if the bit about the station was my doing, but I've revised it now. I can't access the RM web site - but I'm glad it gave them a chuckle. Perhaps you could point out that one of the great advantages of wikipedia is that if people spot errors they can correct them.— Rod " A rather more constructive response then you'd expect if you pointed out daft mistakes in some "organs of information". Still, I'm sorry I spoiled the joke; if I feel moved to point out any railway-related errors to the Wikipedia editors again, I'll wait for a suitable length of time for general cackling first. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugsley Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 S'ok, I've had my cackle by looking at the history of the page Which I must admit I didn't realise you could do before, so I've learnt something from it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted January 27, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27, 2011 I guess this here's another example for a proofreading goof – have a close look at the French explanation for "Railjet" trains... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium NGT6 1315 Posted January 27, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 27, 2011 Replying to myself, I also noticed there's yet another example of what I would consider not to be proper English phrasing, which in my impression is all too common in the English parts of signs and announcements at German stations. I think a statement like "Train does not call at all stations" in the paragraph about RE services would be more appropriate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I guess this here's another example for a proofreading goof – have a close look at the French explanation for "Railjet" trains... It looks more like they couldn't be bothered to look up the French for Austria and Hungary and just used the English word. They did though know that in sentences country names always have a definite article in French (la Grande-Bretagne, l'Autriche, la Hongrie and so on ) so they came up with something really clumsy. The whole French version is in any case really random. Why are they Trains except for the ICs which are suddenly Trains Voyageurs? Did they imagine that francophone passengers might think they were freight trains !! Generally though I've always found it far easier to make typos. in signage than in documents. Graphics artists have to watched like hawks of course but I get paranoid whenever I create television captions. Errors seem to creep in even when I've proofed them really carefully. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swampy Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Has the Wikipedia entry now been changed? I can't see any reference to Catcott Burtle station on there now. Edit - Yes it has, some miserable bu**er changed it at 17:15! (evidently after reading this thread, as cackling was mentioned ) This is what it looks like in google's cache Transport Catcott used to have a small station known as Catcott Burtle between Edington Burtle and Shapwick on the Highbridge Branch of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Nevard Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Oh pooh, I was looking forward to finding out that my trainset had become reality in future SDJR history features in toy chuff chuff magazines, footpath info displays and books. After all, the SDJR 7Fs used to be blue didn't they;-) .... another story not for here, at least I have a screen grab to gloat over... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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