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« Reply #60 on: March 10, 2013, 08:18:02 »
The bottom one hasnt even updated its photo file name from london-overground-train-1339155601-article-0

and the owner of the photo is....TFL▸ (Transport for London) http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/images/landscape/rail-vision-web.jpg
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« Reply #61 on: March 10, 2013, 22:07:02 »
Quote from: chris from nailsea on March 09, 2013, 23:53:58
A rather startling example, from Breaking Travel News:

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« Reply #62 on: March 10, 2013, 22:40:49 »
Crediton where it's due, I say.  Cheesy
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« Reply #63 on: March 11, 2013, 12:08:21 »
Maybe today's 'wet behind the ears' journalists think 'overground' is synonymous with mainline railways.  So they just search for overground for their pictures? 

In some more London-centric forums you do seem to get this ambivalent use of the term, eg 'overground into Waterloo etc'...

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« Reply #64 on: March 11, 2013, 16:46:49 »
Not necessarily incorrect stock, but Michael Portlllo seems to board one class, travel in another and alight from another on his travels.
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« Reply #65 on: March 11, 2013, 17:49:44 »
I don't watch his queenly progress so I wouldn't know.
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« Reply #66 on: March 11, 2013, 17:51:09 »
Quote from: swrural on March 11, 2013, 17:49:44
I don't watch his queenly progress so I wouldn't know.

Ooh, steady!
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« Reply #67 on: March 12, 2013, 08:24:27 »
Stretching a point I suppose the LOREL train could just about be described as relevant for Peterboroughand Cambridge as it shows a train which goes to the south of London. However, Thameslink would be more appropriate,
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« Reply #68 on: March 20, 2013, 00:09:33 »
The broken TPWS▸ (Train Protection and Warning System) grid makes another irrelevant appearance:

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/story-18461353-detail/story.html?#axzz2O28E944x

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« Reply #69 on: March 21, 2013, 09:42:08 »
And I think I've seen that picture before ...

http://www.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/story-18481673-detail/story.html#axzz2OAKRNtDR

Where and when was it taken?   We'll forgive "This is North Devon" for not rushing out to photograph the scene, but surely they have some more recent pictures of trains in their area?
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« Reply #70 on: March 21, 2013, 17:26:28 »
Grahame, are you sure that picture is an oldie? If so, is that a stock video as well?
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« Reply #71 on: March 21, 2013, 17:29:35 »
When grahame posted that link earlier today, this is North Devon illustrated the story with the following image:



The article has been updated since then.
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« Reply #72 on: March 21, 2013, 17:36:54 »
It may not have been a relevant photo, but it is quite interesting. That particular version of the Barbie livery with the white outline on the second stripe wasn't applied to may powercars.
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« Reply #73 on: March 21, 2013, 17:46:53 »
Quote from: bignosemac on March 21, 2013, 17:29:35
The article has been updated since then.

I thought it was unlike grahame.
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« Reply #74 on: March 21, 2013, 23:19:57 »
Indeed: I've noticed an annoying tendency in some local journalism for a reporter to publish a 'breaking news' item, illustrated with any old stock picture, pending their getting more details and a relevant picture.

Why don't they just publish the basic facts as they arrive in the press room, and explain "Further details and pictures to follow"  Huh
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