BornOnShorehamStreet
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Have you got snow in Sheffield?
Very cold in Leeds but not snowing. We don't need another match off do we?
Very cold in Leeds but not snowing. We don't need another match off do we?
Why would the match be off today?
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mattbianco1
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Well, I do need a day's sleep. Just done a night shift, getting the 11:35 London to Sheffield, then watch the match before getting the 17:27 back in time to do another night shift tonight. However, if it gets called off, I'll be very annoyed.
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Had a dusting in s6. No reason to be off though.
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Pinchy
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Impressive dedication, Greenwich. I hadn't realised that train drivers stopped for hitch-hikers! It must be a risky activity.
Anyway, you should be able to snatch 40 winks on the train. Well done.
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I heard the Department of Trade and Industry tried to have today's football match called off, citing the Trade Descriptions Act.
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I planned on 40 winks on the train but both journeys provided the trip from Hell: on the way up it was precocious children being noisy (one annoying youth said the name of every single station as we passed through them coming out of London), and on the way back it was raucous Port Vale fans at Chesterfield, a change of trains at Derby due to "a technical fault", and in Leicestershire it was "bing bong, we apologise for the current delay; this is due to a report of children playing on the line up ahead..." Run the fuckers over, I say, and let me get some sleep.
As for hitching a lift on a train, I've fancied doing a spot of hobo-ing ever since I saw Lee Marvin in Emperor of the North. When you are at the bottom of the M1 in the very early hours, up on the track above there can often be seen very slow moving goods trains, and I've found myself wondering what would happen if I scrambled up the bank and asked the driver for a lift.
Well, one night I got a lift (in a car) with a Railtrack employee so I asked him what would happen in this scenario. He said the driver would immediately call the police. That never happened to Lee Marvin - he just went for the guard (Ernest Borgnine) with an axe.
JohnDenver
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Get some sleep Greenwich. A 90 minute kip each Saturday afternoon isn't enough.
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I can't - I'm back at work.
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As romantic as it sounds trying to hitch a lift of a train is potentially one of the stupidest and dangerous things you could do.
First off all there is a good chance you will ended up getting deaded by a moving train as trains can come from direction at high speed and at 110mph they make remarkably little sound from a distance and have a nasty habit of creeping upon you. Stand to close to a train at 110mph and the suction the train creates will drag you underneath and chop you up in to bite sized pieces, and you will also stink to high heaven as your bowels will also be in little pieces, that is provided that you managed to avoid getting deaded by 25,000 volts of fully charged electricity knocking about. If you managed to get yourself killed the chances are high that you will cause a train driver a great of anguish and pain, as it will have an adverse effect on his life, cause flashbacks in the long term and in worst case scenario the mental pain will be severe enough to end their career.
To be anywhere near a railway line you must been only be there when it is essential to perform railway duties, and you needed fully training beforehand in the appropriate rule book requirements , route knowledge of the line where you ardor briefing by the Controller of site safety, as well as all correct personal protective equipment, be certified as competent in personal track safety and re-certified every two years, and also pass a stringent medical.
If you manage to make it as far being line side without being deaded the driver of the train will simply report you as a trespasser to the signal man normally using fixed radio equipment in the cab, the signal will then block all lines in that area and then not reopen the line until he is certain you would be no longer anywhere near the line, and you would also be risking arrest with a definite court appearance to follow, as well as causing potentially thousands of delay minutes because one trespass incident can cause knock on delays in other parts of the country as the timings are that tight to run a fast and efficient railway network.
Having been on the railway to over 10 years it is a very dangerous place to be around if your somewhere you shouldn't be and needs to be treated with the utmost respect, and your safer travelling in a nice warm carriage reading a book, listening to some music with a trolley bringing you refreshments and a nice cheap advance ticket in your top pocket than you would be using any other form of transport between London and Sheffield
Greenwich Blade
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Which is why I'd never do it, especially as the trains travel much faster than the days of Emperor of the North (set in 1930s America), and there aren't any convenient wagons to clamber into. I should have added that this desire to hobo would include a ride in a time machine back to the day. The hobos were the first hitchhikers, and it really is a fascinating film.
I once read an article a few decades ago now where middle-class hobo-ing became a bit of a trend in the States for people wanting to see the country a different way. You could tell them from other hobos largely because they were carrying movie cameras (rare back in the 1980s).
A 'lift' in the cab of a train would be a good one to put on the CV though, and once when I was contributing to a phone-in on Five Live about hitching someone came on and told a tale of how they'd done just that, many years ago, in a goods train in Oxfordshire.
At 2am when you see a slow, single train crawling past, you wonder where it's going, but the chances are you'd end up in Birmingham when you wanted Sheffield.
No, the best way to do it is, say, after away matches in either Cheltenham (pre-season friendly) or Coventry, get on the train with your London Blades mates, then hide in the toilet when the guard comes.
I once read an article a few decades ago now where middle-class hobo-ing became a bit of a trend in the States for people wanting to see the country a different way. You could tell them from other hobos largely because they were carrying movie cameras (rare back in the 1980s).
A 'lift' in the cab of a train would be a good one to put on the CV though, and once when I was contributing to a phone-in on Five Live about hitching someone came on and told a tale of how they'd done just that, many years ago, in a goods train in Oxfordshire.
At 2am when you see a slow, single train crawling past, you wonder where it's going, but the chances are you'd end up in Birmingham when you wanted Sheffield.
No, the best way to do it is, say, after away matches in either Cheltenham (pre-season friendly) or Coventry, get on the train with your London Blades mates, then hide in the toilet when the guard comes.
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didn't seem to bother Lee Marvin thoughDeleted Member said:
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Feck me Brownie, you've done well to survive 10 years on a railway line
JohnDenver
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It's still going on today. T'was in the paper at the weekend:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddes...hotos-in-pictures#/?picture=406420086&index=0
Greenwich Blade
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Blimey, they're the real deal though, that lot. I imagine if you were a middle-class sight-seeing hobo and you came across them, you'd be thinking about switching to a nice paid-for passenger train.
BornOnShorehamStreet
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Considering the date I posted I should have gone for it 100% in the thread title...
Good posts though!
Good posts though!
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