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« Reply #15 on: August 11, 2017, 13:03:23 »

The Worcester Passenger
The Red Squirrel
The Green Taplow
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Turning signalling into a video game since 1988.


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« Reply #16 on: August 11, 2017, 13:07:19 »

With a distinctly S&T (Signalling and Telegraph) Theme:

The Splitting Distant
The Swinging Overlap
The Trackside Module

Any takers?
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« Reply #17 on: August 11, 2017, 16:10:47 »

The Nose and Cap.
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« Reply #18 on: August 11, 2017, 18:08:11 »

With a distinctly S&T (Signalling and Telegraph) Theme:

The Splitting Distant
The Swinging Overlap
The Trackside Module

Any takers?
.....to which I would add...

The Lower Quadrant
The Home Signal
The Signal Box
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« Reply #19 on: August 11, 2017, 19:12:34 »

haha...my favourite has always been Rat and Trumpet but I had a beer with a couple of freight drivers and one was complaining about a 'Too bright Feather'...good name for a band mind. Only for drivers I guess.
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« Reply #20 on: August 11, 2017, 19:40:03 »

Being slightly (but only slightly) more serious:

The North Star (at Swindon)
Platform Zero (at Chippenham)
The Passing loop (at Melksham)
The Bristol Connection (at Trowbridge)
Points of the Compass (at Westbury)
The Curious and the Peverse  The Clockface (at Dilton Marsh)
The Routemaster (at Warminster)
Olde King Wessex (at Wilton)
The End of the Race (at Salisbury)

Edit ... making that a bit more positive!
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« Reply #21 on: August 11, 2017, 20:13:59 »

The Permanent Way
The Platelayers Arms


I have actually seen a pub next to a former level crossing called;

The Silent Whistle


which gives me a thought for another;

The Chime Whistle
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« Reply #22 on: August 12, 2017, 00:27:16 »

My pub will have a seperate cocktail & spirits bar, and a back room for card games.

Liquor in the front and poker in the rear.
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« Reply #23 on: August 12, 2017, 07:58:07 »

Let me guess, with a whole side room where you can stick passengers where they can bond together and relieve their frustrations.........because the trains are delayed.
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« Reply #24 on: August 12, 2017, 19:12:36 »

The Four Pints, Now!
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« Reply #25 on: August 12, 2017, 19:36:28 »

And a packet of crisps please  Cheesy.
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« Reply #26 on: August 12, 2017, 22:10:57 »

How about "The Falling Leaf" or perhaps "The Dead Emu" (with an inn sign depicting a large flightless bird, let the punters work out the double meaning for themselves)

Or even "The Broadgage" With an inn sign depicting me in my preferred environment of the Pullman car on the Golden Hind.

Or thinking of an actual pub, I searched in vain for the "Leopard Arms" in Bishops Lydeard.
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A proper intercity train has a minimum of 8 coaches, gangwayed throughout, with first at one end, and a full sized buffet car between first and standard.
It has space for cycles, surfboards,luggage etc.
A 5 car DMU (Diesel Multiple Unit) is not a proper inter-city train. The 5+5 and 9 car DMUs are almost as bad.
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« Reply #27 on: August 12, 2017, 22:32:35 »

"The wrong type of <insert subject of your own choice>"
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« Reply #28 on: August 12, 2017, 22:37:14 »

Can't think of a name, but a pub with a gateline and see if bignosemac can get into it.  Grin
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« Reply #29 on: August 12, 2017, 22:43:44 »

"The Exploding Pigeon"

"The Lost Franchise"
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A proper intercity train has a minimum of 8 coaches, gangwayed throughout, with first at one end, and a full sized buffet car between first and standard.
It has space for cycles, surfboards,luggage etc.
A 5 car DMU (Diesel Multiple Unit) is not a proper inter-city train. The 5+5 and 9 car DMUs are almost as bad.
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