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Post by saphil on Jan 24, 2017 13:54:37 GMT
Wasn't sure which section to post this query in - please move if necessary!
Twice now I've seen a yellow engineering train at one of the Moorgate bay platforms. I was intrigued by the name (Baileys Comet) in the LT roundals - any publishable story behind it?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2017 17:05:19 GMT
Bailey's Comet is a rail grinding train belonging to the RGU (Rail Grinder Unit) Was it you asked the same Q on reddit?
https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/5osxyt/what_is_this_train_used_for_spotted_at_moorgate/
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Post by saphil on Jan 24, 2017 17:16:14 GMT
Not guilty!
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Post by Dstock7080 on Jan 24, 2017 18:07:08 GMT
It's been around for a while, i photographed it in Ealing Common depot in January 2016.
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Post by crusty54 on Jan 24, 2017 18:47:25 GMT
whoever got the roundels made and installed could be in trouble - the roundel is a registered trademark
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Post by class411 on Jan 24, 2017 18:51:28 GMT
whoever got the roundels made and installed could be in trouble - the roundel is a registered trademark Very unlikely that LU or tfl would care if it is only used on one of their own assets. In any case, how do you know it is not just a standard roundel modified with the required name? |
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Post by humbug on Jan 24, 2017 22:51:47 GMT
Why has noone commented that a Baileys Comet is a type of cocktail. Surely this is an unofficial name! :-)
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 25, 2017 19:54:20 GMT
I suspect because the majority of members here drink pints rather than cocktails!
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Post by whistlekiller2000 on Jan 25, 2017 22:06:36 GMT
I suspect because the majority of members here drink pints rather than cocktails! I vividly remember going to a pub near Leyton Midland Road station c.1983 during a break from band rehearsals in Alan Gordon Studios (which were located in one of the railway arches). The drummer, the guitarist and myself all successfully ordered pints of beer followed by the keyboard player who, in a loud squeaky voice, requested a Baileys On The Rocks. The landlord, who was drying a glass in front of me didn't break stride or look up as he growled "Baileys? **** off mate, you're barred." Seeing as by now the entire pub had gone quiet, tumbleweed was blowing about and we were all being glared at menacingly by the regulars, the rest of us felt that the landlord's decision was harsh but fair......  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2017 23:29:07 GMT
I suspect because the majority of members here drink pints rather than cocktails! So its not Pimm's o'clock:) |
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Post by class411 on Jan 26, 2017 9:22:15 GMT
I suspect because the majority of members here drink pints rather than cocktails! I kill two birds with one stone with a Dublin Headbanger Recipe: Take one pint of Guinness. Add one Jersey Royal. Place umbrella in glass. Enjoy! (Actually, I much prefer Murphys after living in Cork for a few years.) |
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Post by saphil on Jan 26, 2017 10:18:47 GMT
Presumably there is more than one rail grinder train? Do they all have names and if so is there a list of them anywhere? If not, why not!
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Post by Chris M on Jan 26, 2017 11:03:58 GMT
LU/TfL were historically against naming vehicles. Sarah Siddons and the tram Stephen Parascandolo for example both predate TfL operations. I think one of the S8 trains was named, the first under TfL, and since then a handful more have been named.
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Post by trt on Jan 26, 2017 12:31:44 GMT
Presumably there is more than one rail grinder train? Do they all have names and if so is there a list of them anywhere? If not, why not! I believe there's an app you can download which tells you where the nearest one is. At least, I'm assuming that from the name of the App.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2017 14:05:28 GMT
Why has noone commented that a Baileys Comet is a type of cocktail. Surely this is an unofficial name! :-) Well, I can only speak for myself. I drink Guinness and I've never heard of this cocktail. The only "cocktails" I've ever drunk were mixed shorts back in the 80s: rum & coke, vodka & orange, whisky & lemonade, Malibu & milk. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2017 14:07:49 GMT
I suspect because the majority of members here drink pints rather than cocktails! So its not Pimm's o'clock:) Pimm's o'clock.... .....that's it! You've just started a class war!!! And I don't mean Deltic v Warship! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2017 14:10:29 GMT
I suspect because the majority of members here drink pints rather than cocktails! I vividly remember going to a pub near Leyton Midland Road station c.1983 during a break from band rehearsals in Alan Gordon Studios (which were located in one of the railway arches). The drummer, the guitarist and myself all successfully ordered pints of beer followed by the keyboard player who, in a loud squeaky voice, requested a Baileys On The Rocks. The landlord, who was drying a glass in front of me didn't break stride or look up as he growled "Baileys? **** off mate, you're barred." Seeing as by now the entire pub had gone quiet, tumbleweed was blowing about and we were all being glared at menacingly by the regulars, the rest of us felt that the landlord's decision was harsh but fair...... I'm reminded of the great Frankie Boyle joke of a man ordering a scotch on the rocks in a Glasgow pub, and the grizzled Glaswegian landlord replying "we don't serve cocktails!" |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 26, 2017 16:05:02 GMT
(Actually, I much prefer Murphys after living in Cork for a few years.) Do you mean the beer or the slang term for a potato? |
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Post by class411 on Jan 26, 2017 17:56:33 GMT
(Actually, I much prefer Murphys after living in Cork for a few years.) Do you mean the beer or the slang term for a potato? Guess. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2017 18:52:09 GMT
I vividly remember going to a pub near Leyton Midland Road station c.1983 during a break from band rehearsals in Alan Gordon Studios (which were located in one of the railway arches). The drummer, the guitarist and myself all successfully ordered pints of beer followed by the keyboard player who, in a loud squeaky voice, requested a Baileys On The Rocks. The landlord, who was drying a glass in front of me didn't break stride or look up as he growled "Baileys? **** off mate, you're barred." Seeing as by now the entire pub had gone quiet, tumbleweed was blowing about and we were all being glared at menacingly by the regulars, the rest of us felt that the landlord's decision was harsh but fair...... I'm reminded of the great Frankie Boyle joke of a man ordering a scotch on the rocks in a Glasgow pub, and the grizzled Glaswegian landlord replying "we don't serve cocktails!" I got the joke wrong, it wasn't "scotch on the rocks", it was "lager & lime" or "lager tops" as it is also called. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2017 18:54:37 GMT
(Actually, I much prefer Murphys after living in Cork for a few years.) Do you mean the beer or the slang term for a potato? Where is murphy's a slang term for potatoes? |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jan 26, 2017 19:56:07 GMT
Where is murphy's a slang term for potatoes? It's in online dialect dictionaries, albeit with no consistently quoted sources. My father calls them that, but whether he picked up the term from his south London schoolmates, his maternal Suffolk roots, his paternal Sussex roots, or his national service in the RAF, I don't know. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2017 20:21:03 GMT
I've never heard it, in London, Ireland or the RAF....but that doesn't mean it isn't used of course... What I have heard though in London, Ireland and the RAF is people with the surname Murphy being nicknamed Spud. Maybe that is where the mix-up comes from. Other common ones in the forces and police were: White = Chalky Black = Sooty Smith = Smudger Wood/Woods/Carpenter = Chippy Sparks = Leccy (including a girl I went to secondary school with, B...... Sparks, who I bumped into again many years later at Met Police college) Milligan = Spike Gemmell = Archie Styles = Nobby Short/Shortland/Shortman = Lofty Oddly though I can't remember any nicknames for people called Gardener and Driver. |
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