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A couple of 153's passing at Llandrindod, but what isn't quite right?

(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/DSCF0005.jpg)

Both are heading to Shrewsbury?

Nice spot Angel, the destination board of the right hand train is indeed wrong (should read 'Swansea'), but not what I was intimating about.....try again!

The London Midland poster?

well done TJ! I know Arriva are having financial probs at the mo, but surely they can afford to run off a few posters.  ;D

Think mine was a better "get" since even the poster had not noticed that one!

<goes off in a huff>

Okay Angel, just for you; here's a virtual prize for trumping me...and for slightly confusing me with different definitions of 'poster' !!

 :-*  :-*  :-*

Hmm.  That poster (the London Midland one, not bignosemac!) only gives part of the story, anyway: fair enough, 'When the ticket office is open, buy a ticket before you board the train'.  That's a bit obvious - but what it doesn't then explain, to the perhaps rather puzzled infrequent passenger, is what to do if the ticket office is not open?  For example, 'When the ticket office is not open, you may board the train and then buy your ticket, provided that you have the intention and means to pay, and you seek out the train manager on board as soon as possible'.

you could also add 303 is fitted with horn socks in september,only normall fitted during winterisation work which runs october to march.

but there is no evidence of when the picture was taken

Well you live and learn......even trains have to put some socks on in winter!! And for the record the photo was taken on 9/9/9. It was a lovely day and unlike 153303 I was sans les chausettes  :D

Just a minute! What the hell is that poster doing there? :o

I know that LM manage Coleshill Parkway and other stations east of B'ham which only have XC services (an inconsistency caused by the desire for XC to manage no stations)

But I thought ATW managed all Welsh stations, and if so - what the hell is that poster doing there?!

Err..., that's the whole point of the question (the answer of which was got 3 posts into the thread).

Oh dear. ;D I realise that! ::) It's just that people just brushed off the poster and started discussing headlamps and socks! I won't to knwo what it's doing there....

Hmm.  London Midland posters do seem to be something of a law unto themselves, don't they?

Chris.  ;) :D ;D ;D

Don't start...  :P :D I am having enough troubles with my "LM Penalty Fares" thread! ::) ;D

What it is doing there is telling folks about buying tickets. Why it is not an Arriva poster, I've no idea. All the other rail info posters at Llandrindod were Arriva.

Here's another photo:

http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/tn/News.cfm?id=35868&headline=Rail

Except that the error is pathetically bad!

I often wonder whether journos just type 'train picture' into Google Images and then just click on a thumbnail at random.

A few years back the MoD produced a wall calendar with a lovely photograph of a US Navy submarine on it !

Thing is though - if I were reading the article in a paper rather than looking for somthing wrong in the picture - I would probably just vaguely register "train picture" rather than the details

But then I'm not a visual person (hence the reason I have been cotswolding for years and still would not recognise probably half the major "pictures" if they were taken out of context.

On a journey home, I can look up and pretty much know where I am - but take that snapshot and present it to me.........

Now, are we talking of printed posters or of forum members who post regularly about London Midland??  :-\ ;)

As we're posting here, in 'The Lighter Side', I think it's fair to point out that some rather odd posters (of the paper kind!) can appear at stations (or on trains) sometimes - and perhaps some rather odd pictures can be used, by hard-pressed journalists, to illustrate their stories.

Hopefully, it shows that we can be amused by such anomolies, without getting over-exercised about them.

By the way, how about the dodgy typo's in this 'official' FGW poster, at Bristol Temple Meads?

(http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/551/picture048hzq.jpg)

Hmm: 'abandoned' they apparently amended, with correcting fluid - but 'illegaly' ??  ::) :o ;D

;D I hadn't thought of that...

Actually for me the stand out other than the tippex was not the illegally but the use of "cycles" everywhere except for one use of the word "bike"

Bad, very bad!

Yes, I'm always amused by anomolies (sic), and there are a lot in that poster (and by that poster  ;D), aren't there Chris?

 :'( :-X :-\ :-[

Yes, I'm sorry: 'anomalies'.  You aren't an actuary, by any chance, are you, John R?  ;) :D ;D

.....and are you a greengrocer Chris?
"....dodgy typo's...."

Tut tut. ;) ;D

Hmm.  "Typographical errors" becomes "typo's", surely?  ;) :D ;D

Er....sort of agree. Apostrophes can be a minefield. I suppose you could argue that the apostrophe is replacing missing letters like in don't and should've. But when it comes to 's things get a bit more complicated.....

I found the thought of accountancy too exciting.  ;D

No: the apostrophe signifies the missing letter(s), as in "does not" becomes "doesn't", or "cannot" becomes "can't".

'Paging TerminalJunkie, paging TerminalJunkie!'  ;) :D ;D

If you always used an apostrophe to signify missing letters, then typo would be typo', except that it isn't as that would be silly.

Since typo is the abbreviation for typographical errors, the plural is clearly typos. (Of course, if typo was a word in its own right the plural would be typoes; fortunately, it isn't ;)).

Had your typographical error possessed something, that would be a different matter...

(ps. You could have saved yourself some bother by using 'mistake' ;D)

Thanks, as ever, for your erudite comments, TerminalJunkie!  ;)


I thought I'd covered that aspect by describing it as 'an official FGW poster'?  ::) :o

However, would you also care to discuss their use of the phrase, "... we will regularly check the cycle racks ..." ?

C.  ::) ;D