Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisations used in the Coffee Shop forum

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[grahame]

You chaps is just so totally down wiv da kidz, innit.

I definately could of moaned about chat sights that there use of English is their to be..........

Nah ... da kidz in deze partz iz da best.  In the travel and tourism business, there's a very high proportion indeed of younger employees (certainly the case at our place; not so sure about FGW^▸ (First Great Western)'s average team member age) and they're exceptional - putting complete lie to negative stereotypes.   As a forum, we're very much inclusive, and welcoming of visitors and new members irrespective of age and prior knowledge / experience ... and lots of abbreviations tends to lower the readability for the uninitiated, and put up barriers of comprehension that turn off those we want to encourage to join.  In frequent posters (I'm sure you're there by now, Red Squirrel) you'll find a more laid back approach to those barriers - amongst regulars, if some choose to write in a way that others find hard, it's up to them - just stops them getting their points across.

[TonyK]

You chaps is just so totally down wiv da kidz, innit.

I'm like, D'uh!. Dude!

[JayMac]

Whilst looking for a description of the term 'bang road' which I confused two FGW^▸ (First Great Western) employees with yesterday, I discovered an excellent resource for finding out about railway terminology and acronyms/abbreviations.

http://www.safety.networkrail.co.uk/Services/Jargon-Buster

[chuffed]

ENCTS^▸ (English National Concessionary Travel Scheme. Bus passes for senior/disabled persons) English National Concessionary Travel Scheme....Senior/Disabled bus passes to the uninitiated. I have been guilty of using this acronym in the last couple of days

[JayMac]

Now added to this forum's Acronyms/Abbreviations page. 

[Bmblbzzz]

Posts on this forum frequently refer to train types by their class numbers: 153, 165, 180 and so on. Those, like me, who don't remember which number refers to which type but would like to know whether someone's talking about "the small bouncy one" or "the 3-car one with the tippy side-facing seats at the end" or whatever, can look it up in the very useful Acronyms and Abbreviations section. There are two ways in which this doesn't always quite work though: Sometimes, people use names instead of numbers, talking about a "Turbo" or a "Sprinter" or whatever. The names are probably easier to remember and looking these names up cross-references the class number, but the entries for the numbers don't refer to the names. Secondly, neither the name nor the number give a feel for what sort of train it is. This is easily solved by a quick google (there seem no limits to Wikipedia's geekery!) and no, I don't want links from the A&A; but would it be possible, in time, to have names added to the corresponding class number definitions? Thank you in anticipation!

[grahame]

Posts on this forum frequently refer to train types by their class numbers: 153, 165, 180 and so on. Those, like me, who don't remember which number refers to which type but would like to know whether someone's talking about "the small bouncy one" or "the 3-car one with the tippy side-facing seats at the end" or whatever, can look it up in the very useful Acronyms and Abbreviations section. There are two ways in which this doesn't always quite work though: Sometimes, people use names instead of numbers, talking about a "Turbo" or a "Sprinter" or whatever. The names are probably easier to remember and looking these names up cross-references the class number, but the entries for the numbers don't refer to the names. Secondly, neither the name nor the number give a feel for what sort of train it is. This is easily solved by a quick google (there seem no limits to Wikipedia's geekery!) and no, I don't want links from the A&A; but would it be possible, in time, to have names added to the corresponding class number definitions? Thank you in anticipation!

I'm sure we can adjust A&A ... in the meantime, here's a checklist - with a "*" in front of trains currently running GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) passenger services.   Drawing this up has reminded me that I'm not totally sure of 800 v 801 v 802, what with the uprating and stifling and adding diesel engines to otherwise electric trains!

Pacers
142 Some Formerly operated from Exeter
* 143 Now Exeter based

Sprinters
* 150 Subclasses 150/0, 150/1 and 150/2 Mostlt 2 carriages
* 153 Single carriage trains
* 158 Mostly 3 cars on GW^» (Great Western - used as an abbreviation for the area / lines under the Great Western franchise, as opposed to FGW which includes "First", the company operating them too. For tickets - about)
159 SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) Salisbury depot 3 car trains

Turbo
* 165 Thames Valley, many moving to Bristol based services
* 166 Thames Valley, many moving to Bristol based services

Turbostar
168 Chiltern
170 Cross Country

Adelante
* 180 Five car high speed trains - a few around but leaving soon

High Speed Trains
* 125 (or 253 and 254) - current intercity HST^▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) workhorse
220 Voyager - Cross Country
221 Super Voyager - Cross Country
* 800 (IET^▸ (Intercity Express Train - replacement for HSTs (manufactured by Hitachi in Kobe, Japan)))
802 Extra IET units on order for working on primarily diesel lines

Electric Units
* 360   4 and 5 car Heathrow Connect. Also 1 with Heathrow Express
* 387   4 car Thames Valley stock
332 Heathrow Express - main trains
801 Electric only IET

[Bmblbzzz]

Thank you!

[ChrisB]

The 168s are often referred to as Clubman trains (especially by Chiltern themselves)

The HSTs^▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) arr class 43

[JayMac]

The HST^▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) power cars are Class 43. Class 43 shouldn't be used to refer to the whole train. A HST is made up of two Class 43s and a number of Mk3 carriages.

The Class 158, part of the Sprinter family, were named on introduction Express Sprinter. That's a name still often used.

The Class 159, also part of the Sprinter family, were named South Western Turbo. That name is now seldom used.

[grahame]

Wagan. Want our acronymn page to be the goat not just peng. I have a fomo if we don't add things from this BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) page. No beef but what d'ya think bruvs?

[Western Pathfinder]

Now I know that I'm old did not understand one word of that !😁

[JayMac]

Have you had a TIA^▸ (Transient Ischemic Attack (aka "mini-stroke")) grahame? 

[grahame]

Have you had a TIA^▸ (Transient Ischemic Attack (aka "mini-stroke")) grahame? 

Transient ischemic attack (TIA, Mini-Stroke): A neurological event with the signs and symptoms of a stroke, but which go away within a short period of time. Also called a mini-stroke, a TIA is due to a temporary lack of adequate blood and oxygen (ischemia) to the brain. This is often caused by the narrowing (or, less often, ulceration) of the carotid arteries (the major arteries in the neck that supply blood to the brain).

Nope. Don't think so.

[SandTEngineer]

Now I know that I'm old did not understand one word of that !😁

I'm with you on that one WP, but not with Grahame....