Hroth Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 13 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: In this style 10/6 You'd be mad not to get one! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 £10.60 is that? Sorry, sometimes I can't help being an ignorant teenager... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted April 11, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 11, 2019 Half a guinea, dear boy. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 (edited) 12 minutes ago, sem34090 said: £10.60 is that? Sorry, sometimes I can't help being an ignorant teenager... If you're volunteering in the 1940s, 10/6 should be no problem.... Just wait until some joker proffers a brass thruppence and a couple of farthings for their fare! Quote Half a guinea, dear boy. And dear at at half the price! Edited April 11, 2019 by Hroth 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 (edited) 35 minutes ago, Hroth said: If you're volunteering in the 1940s, 10/6 should be no problem.... Just wait until some joker proffers a brass thruppence and a couple of farthings for their fare! An' I'll tell the b*gger that 'e can go sling 'is 'ook! I think they ought to cut down all the stages... And stick up all the fares If tickets cost a pound apiece Why should you make a fuss? It's worth it just to ride inside That sixty-foot-long by eight-foot-wide Inside that monarch of the rail Always out in rain or hail. That big eight-wheeler, dark-green-painted, British Rail, MK1 Design, Ninety-seven seater Ninety-seven seater railway coach. Hold very tight please! Edited April 11, 2019 by sem34090 3 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, sem34090 said: £10.60 is that? Sorry, sometimes I can't help being an ignorant teenager... £0.525, I think... Edited April 11, 2019 by wagonman 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted April 11, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 11, 2019 Glad to find there are still some who can handle their Lsd. 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted April 11, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 11, 2019 8 hours ago, Hroth said: Imputations? About Mrs Peel? Perish the thort! (What are your thought about the delectable Cathy Gale, btw?) But given the characteristics of the Bowler-Hatees, I feel one might impugn Mr Steed with impunity. Especially as he seems to have abandoned his bowler as a subterfuge... Our school, being within a mile or two of Elstree studios, was sometimes used at a location for TV and film. I once met "Tara King" while they were making an episode of The Avengers. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 I am in sentimental vein, so ... 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 15 hours ago, sem34090 said: An' I'll tell the b*gger that 'e can go sling 'is 'ook! I think they ought to cut down all the stages... And stick up all the fares If tickets cost a pound apiece Why should you make a fuss? It's worth it just to ride inside That sixty-foot-long by eight-foot-wide Inside that monarch of the rail Always out in rain or hail. That big eight-wheeler, dark-green-painted, British Rail, MK1 Design, Ninety-seven seater Ninety-seven seater railway coach. Hold very tight please! How about: "Inside that Monarch of the rail A reader of The Daily Wail" ps they'll be keeping a good lookout for rough looking men with snow on their boots.... 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted April 12, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 12, 2019 12 minutes ago, Hroth said: How about: "Inside that Monarch of the rail A reader of The Daily Wail" ps they'll be keeping a good lookout for rough looking men with snow on their boots.... As long as it wasn't running from Selby to Goole or St Erth to St Ives... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 If you were to venture from Audlem to Ambergate (asleep or not) you'd probably want something more substantial than the Wail, say an omnibus copy of Lord of the Rings... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 (edited) Well, a year ago (last Thursday)... I was walking at a shew, And met a man who thought he knew the lot! He was going on about variations of Stroudley tanks... And the number of rivets an Adams Radial's got. So I asked him "What's that loco over there?" He answered "Ohh it's an N" I might have gone on thinking that was true, if the locomotive in question hadn't put that chap to shame and answered... "I hain't an N. I'm a... U. A Maunsell U The gnicest work of Mmaunsell at the shew... I'm a U, how do you do? You really ought to k-know w-who's w-who..." Edited April 13, 2019 by sem34090 4 2 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 But was it a genuine U, or an impostor K pretending to be a U? Or perhaps he was right and it was an N gauge U? People need to know! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted April 13, 2019 Author Share Posted April 13, 2019 Let's face it, some railway companies ended up going too far along the alphabet ... 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 (edited) I think the Southern had everything other than 'Y'. LBSCR: I LBSCR & SECR: A, B, C, D, E, G, H, J, K, L SECR: F, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, LSWR: M(7), X(6) SR: U, V, W, Z Edited April 13, 2019 by sem34090 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 (edited) Southern, the Alphabetti Spaghetti Railway! Edited April 13, 2019 by Hroth I knew what I was trying to say... 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sem34090 Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 On another note, wouldn't the world be a much more amusing place if we replaced Guns with Gnus? "This gnu has a range of 400ft..." 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 U or Non-U? You can probably tell by whether it wears a dinner jacket or a dress suit. 1 1 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 10 minutes ago, sem34090 said: On another note, wouldn't the world be a much more amusing place if we replaced Guns with Gnus? "This gnu has a range of 400ft..." Provided its not susceptible to backfiring..... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted April 13, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13, 2019 10 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: U or Non-U? You can probably tell by whether it wears a dinner jacket or a dress suit. Definitely not a tuxedo. And definitely not white. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Oh, very definitely. SEM would possibly enjoy this mega-fest of gnu puns and railway modelling http://forum.gn15.info/ 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted April 13, 2019 Author Share Posted April 13, 2019 7 minutes ago, St Enodoc said: Definitely not a tuxedo. And definitely not white. Or, even worse ..... 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted April 13, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13, 2019 "I think the Southern had everything other than 'Y'." And several duplicates, just to confuse the unwary - but only one proper U. U1s don't count. Thanks, SEM. Your versifying has made my morning. Jonathan 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted April 13, 2019 Author Share Posted April 13, 2019 Off on a walk. Will report upon return. Good weekend, all. J 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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