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« on: December 08, 2017, 16:42:37 »
Not sure GWR▸ (Great Western Railway)'s publicity agency has read the Railway Bylaws recently.

Exhibit 1, your honour: "Passenger given £50 fine for putting his feet up on the seat"

Exhibit 2:
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« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2017, 17:06:33 »
Reminds me of a complaint GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) apparently received about the Famous Five campaign.

A farmer said the cartoon film encouraged people to let their dogs run loose in fields of livestock...
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« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2017, 00:22:41 »
Quote from: bobm on December 08, 2017, 17:06:33
Reminds me of a complaint GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) apparently received about the Famous Five campaign.

A farmer said the cartoon film encouraged people to let their dogs run loose in fields of livestock...


Yes, but Timmy is so well behaved, except when there are rounds of ham sandwiches made by a buxom farmer's wife to be had.

(I added the "buxom" bit myself, part-way through the third Famous Five book I read. I wasn't sure if it meant what I wanted it to mean, or if they lived in the Peak District.)
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