MyRule1 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Although a screen grad from the BBC web-site https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63742917 I hoped here is the most appropriate thread for this. No further comment from me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Parker Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 A bit of context might help. The news story is about Britains' busiest and quietest railway stations. The Churchill image is used, alongside one of ABBA to represent Waterloo. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted November 24, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 24, 2022 I think the OP is pointing out the wrongness of the caption... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Perhaps the BBC is setting out a theory that Churchill was cremated not buried, using a seemingly wrong caption as a vehicle to highlight the conspiracy. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6990WitherslackHall Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 (edited) 36 minutes ago, Phil Parker said: A bit of context might help. The news story is about Britains' busiest and quietest railway stations. The Churchill image is used, alongside one of ABBA to represent Waterloo. There's a BR advert with ABBA on it on display in the station hall in the Railway Museum at York. I think I've got a photo of it somewhere Edited November 24, 2022 by 6990WitherslackHall Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 A curiosity from the same BBC page is a link to this: "London Stratford emerges as UK's busiest station" Quote London's Stratford railway station was Britain's busiest in a year that recorded the lowest level of passenger journeys for almost 150 years. The station recorded about 14 million entries and exits between in March 2020 and April 2021 as passenger usage fell 78% in Britain due to the pandemic. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59414795 It must have been a quirk of Lockdown Britain - but why? What traffic was still going through Stratford that propelled it to #1 spot? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 32 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said: A curiosity from the same BBC page is a link to this: "London Stratford emerges as UK's busiest station" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59414795 It must have been a quirk of Lockdown Britain - but why? What traffic was still going through Stratford that propelled it to #1 spot? I would hazard a guess at the Westfield shopping centre - people still had to shop during lockdown. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted November 24, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 24, 2022 The utter confusion between train and locomotive in the public mind presumably started with Flying Scotsman. I blame that lot out of KX. 3 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted November 24, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 24, 2022 Hey, someone at the Beeb noticed, or it was pointed out to them, because they have changed the caption! (Or maybe someone at the Beeb reads RMWeb...?) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grovenor Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 21 hours ago, Harlequin said: Hey, someone at the Beeb noticed, or it was pointed out to them, because they have changed the caption! (Or maybe someone at the Beeb reads RMWeb...?) However they forgot to correct the same error in the text of the article. WRT Stratford, if those passing through and changing trains without doing an entry or exit were also counted then I suspect it would still be number 1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6990WitherslackHall Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 21 hours ago, Oldddudders said: The utter confusion between train and locomotive in the public mind presumably started with Flying Scotsman. I blame that lot out of KX. The Railway Museum at York has an entire section of the museum which tells the difference between the train and the locomotive but the history of the locomotive as well. It's a permanent display in North Shed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6990WitherslackHall Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 (edited) Here's a funny story that actually proves that point. I was at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway's annual steam gala on 23/09/22 and 4468 Sir Nigel Gresley pulled into platform 2 at Grosmont station. It had to wait to run round its train though as platform 3 was occupied by TVR 0-6-2T 85 with the freight train. The freight train left and after a while, Gresley ran round and hooked back up with its train for the journey to back to Pickering. It was carrying a Flying Scotsman headboard (see photo) and I think it looked cool with it on. However, not long after I took the photo, the driver took the headboard off as people kept thinking that Gresley was actually the Flying Scotsman despite the bright red nameplates with Gresley's name on! Gresley at Pickering later on, with no headboard. Edited November 25, 2022 by 6990WitherslackHall 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIA185 Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 (edited) Basically, most people don't NEED to understand what's correct. I recall the story of a man showing his son the fireman damping down the coal-dust in the tender with the slacker pipe. He told his son that the coal was wetted so that it would steam when it was put on the fire and it was that steam that drove the engine. Then, of course, there's the kid who asked what the big wheel in the cab of a DMU was for (the handbrake wheel). Mum told him it was the steering wheel. He never asked why the driver wasn't holding it. (CJL) Edited December 8, 2022 by VIA185 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 8, 2022 4 hours ago, VIA185 said: Basically, most people don't NEED to understand what's correct. Indeed so. Some of us out here appreciate steam locos without really knowing - or caring - about cut-off or valve gear or a host of other key components. Just as I don't know all the inner workings of a tv, or the Macbook upon which I am confidently, if incompetently, typing. OTOH I have been using DCC, with some degree of success, for the last 25 years, while I read of people who know every nut and bolt and split-pin of a steam loco, but fight shy of digital control........ 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
6990WitherslackHall Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 On 24/11/2022 at 16:29, KeithMacdonald said: What traffic was still going through Stratford that propelled it to #1 spot? Freight, RHTT every autumn. Light loco movements etc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 30 minutes ago, 6990WitherslackHall said: Freight, RHTT every autumn. Light loco movements etc Err, lost in translation? The BBC was quoting passenger numbers. Quote London's Stratford railway station was Britain's busiest in a year that recorded the lowest level of passenger journeys for almost 150 years. The station recorded about 14 million entries and exits between in March 2020 and April 2021 as passenger usage fell 78% in Britain due to the pandemic.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59414795 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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