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« on: August 11, 2009, 04:06:57 »
OK, so I'm slightly late on the uptake with this one (although, in my defence, it is still 2306 where I'm posting from so technically the right date) but good luck to Driver Potter...I believe today was the day!

http://wimbledonparkdepot.spaces.live.com/
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« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2009, 19:46:41 »
Most kind, old boy.
Most kind.

Any loud digestive sounds of a nervous nature heard in West London for the next four days can safely be put down to yours truly....
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« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2009, 21:24:51 »
I've been following the blog with both interest and admiration as well, and would like to add my best regards and good luck wishes.

Keep us posted, Driver Potter Sir!
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« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2009, 10:42:35 »
As of Friday 14th August 2009, Driver Potter is a qualified driver.

Time to start going by bus, folks.

Although you lot on Great Western as safe - unless you change trains at Reading...
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« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2009, 11:30:11 »
Congratulations!
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« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2009, 11:58:02 »
Quote from: Driver Potter on August 16, 2009, 10:42:35
As of Friday 14th August 2009, Driver Potter is a qualified driver.

Time to start going by bus, folks.

Although you lot on Great Western as safe - unless you change trains at Reading...

oo eck! Yer not drivin 4JOPs RDG▸ (Rail Delivery Group, or Reading station, depending on context)-WAT are ya? I regularly visit a friend in Bracknell....
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« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2009, 14:12:17 »
Bet you miss the 4VEP though  Cry
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« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2009, 19:23:37 »
We'll get the Old Lady back home....
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« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2009, 20:52:22 »
Quote from: Driver Potter on August 16, 2009, 10:42:35
As of Friday 14th August 2009, Driver Potter is a qualified driver.

Well done, Driver Potter!  Wink Cheesy Grin
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« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2009, 19:33:20 »
Congratulations!
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« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2009, 03:01:05 »
Quote from: Driver Potter on August 16, 2009, 19:23:37
We'll get the Old Lady back home....

Is Driver Potter also the admin of a particular facebook group under a different name (not mentioned to protect the innocent!).

Just wondering!
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« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2009, 19:16:20 »
Quote from: readytostart on August 20, 2009, 03:01:05
Quote from: Driver Potter on August 16, 2009, 19:23:37
We'll get the Old Lady back home....

Is Driver Potter also the admin of a particular facebook group under a different name (not mentioned to protect the innocent!).

Just wondering!

Go on - spill the beans?!
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« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2009, 14:39:09 »
Quote from: Driver Potter on August 20, 2009, 19:16:20
Quote from: readytostart on August 20, 2009, 03:01:05
Quote from: Driver Potter on August 16, 2009, 19:23:37
We'll get the Old Lady back home....

Is Driver Potter also the admin of a particular facebook group under a different name (not mentioned to protect the innocent!).

Just wondering!

Hehe, nope, might not be you!

Go on - spill the beans?!
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« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2010, 14:58:42 »
Congratulations to Driver Potter, who drove his first service train (on his own!) on Friday.

http://wimbledonparkdepot.spaces.live.com/blog/

Well done!!
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« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2011, 21:18:27 »
Driver Potter is back blogging again. I'm rather annoyed that I didn't discover this fact much sooner, as he appears to have been at it again since last November.

If you need a smile putting on your face, then you can do much worse than read his blog. I've just been reading entries from back in November to the present day. Cheered me up no end.  Particularly this excerpt from a blog post of November 8th a few days after a concrete mixer fell on a SWT▸ (South West Trains) Class 455:

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The consensus amongst staff at SWT seems to be that we were bloody lucky; everyone walked (or in a few cases were carried) away with their lives. The train involved, 455 913, is, I^m afraid, fit only for recycling as soup cans and razor blades but it stood up to having 25 tons dropped on it rather well (very well, in fact, given that it^s 30 years old ^ well done, BR▸ (British Rail(ways))). Everyone got out, even the lorry driver survived and the line is re-open for business. As with all things of this nature it could have been so much worse; it could have been a fast train, it could have been the rush-hour^ We got away with it. The rolling stock stood up to something it was never designed for (only a rolling stock designer on bad  Acid designs his trains to withstand impacts from kamikaze construction lorries), everyone got off the train in one piece and the poor sod driving the lorry survived. Besides everyone on board buying a winning lottery ticket on the same day, and each finding a case full of unmarked ^50 notes on the trackside, and being offered the kiss of life by Nigella Lawson whilst she^s coated in molten chocolate, I can^t see how much fortunate we could have been. Of course with relief comes the usual rash of railway jokes. I will not repeat any of them on here, but I will say that the rumours about SWT re-naming the 15.05 Guildford to Waterloo service as ^The Flying Concrete Mixer^ are entirely false. So too are the stories about the 15.05 being required to carry a breeze block on the front lamp bracket from now on.

 Grin Grin Grin

The Further Wibblings of Driver H. Potter.
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