Re: Mendacious railway station name?
- From: Arthur Figgis <postmaster@[127.0.0.1]>
- Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:45:55 +0000
On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:25:49 GMT, wensleydale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Neil
Williams) wrote:
>On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 22:43:17 +0000, Arthur Figgis
><postmaster@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
>
>>I noticed the noise, but not so much the smell. Though the one
>>mainline train I got was definitely _not_ air-conditioned!
>
>I had one of those as well. Door-hanging at 60mph is permitted (or
>certainly in no way discouraged). In that weather it was brilliant...
:-)
>>Did you find any of the "158"s? I found one in the Hbf.
>
>I travelled on one of the Korean DMUs (fairly reasonable in terms of
>comfort, but very dated-looking and a bit dingy) and a load of various
>hauled stock, aircon and not.
>
>I did see a few of the 158s, but they appeared to be in a scrapline.
>Perhaps they're not used any more?
One train worth was in action at the main station last weekend.
Unfortunately I only go to Bang Sue - main station, on some fairly
decrepit DMU nominally ventilated with fans on the ceiling.
Trying to get a 2 baht platform ticket with a 100 note was fun. And
I'd like to see the safety case paperwork for the 3-wheel shopping
trolley/jet fighter crosses which are used for city transport and
extracting cash from tourists.
--
Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK
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