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Title: Railway Malaprops.... Post by: chuffed on July 16, 2016, 18:32:30 Just read in the 'Railway magazine 'Princess Elizabeth 'sat down' in Derby Station with a warm running bogie'...which conjured up a delightful mental image. Can anyone else come up with other examples of sentences that would make perfect sense to a railway old buffer, but not to the general public ?
Title: Re: Railway Malaprops.... Post by: grahame on July 17, 2016, 16:02:27 Is this a malapropism or something else?
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/oognb.jpg) Title: Re: Railway Malaprops.... Post by: eightf48544 on July 17, 2016, 16:42:43 Depends on where you saw it. If it was at a model railway show or similar then it's probably correct. A 4mm scale narrow boat model. A lot of modellers incorporate a canal in their layouts.
Title: Re: Railway Malaprops.... Post by: grahame on July 17, 2016, 16:59:52 Depends on where you saw it. If it was at a model railway show or similar then it's probably correct. A 4mm scale narrow boat model. A lot of modellers incorporate a canal in their layouts. But surely it should be OO scale not OO gauge? How on early does four foot eight and an alf, or 16.5mm, refer to a narrow boat. Gauge if anything would be 7 foot, or 28mm, for a narrow boat? Title: Re: Railway Malaprops.... Post by: eightf48544 on July 17, 2016, 21:41:55 Agree probably Scale would be better but I think most modellers would think it was 4mm to 1' rather than 3.5mm to1 1'.
Title: Re: Railway Malaprops.... Post by: Chris from Nailsea on July 17, 2016, 22:25:29 At the same time as grahame was posting above, I was doing a google search for "00 scale narrowboats" - and was startled to find how much they cost! :o
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