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Post by arrivaarriva on Mar 18, 2018 10:48:39 GMT
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Post by M1104 on Mar 18, 2018 13:22:24 GMT
My American cousin couldn't stop laughing when I told her "we're in Tooting now". Having lived near the area all my life I'd long forgotten how funny the word may sound to some. I also mention there's a place called Barking, which she totally didn't believe until I showed her a tube map of the station.
Later on that day she humorously tagged herself on Facebook that she's at Elephant and Castle, to which one of her Americans friends thought was some sort of venue in Baltimore.
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Post by John tuthill on Mar 18, 2018 13:30:07 GMT
My American cousin couldn't stop laughing when I told her "we're in Tooting now". Having lived near the area all my life I never realised how funny the word may sound to some. I also mention there's a place called Barking, which she totally didn't believe until I showed her a tube map of the station. Later on the day she tagged herself on Facebook that she's at Elephant and Castle, to which one of her Americans friends thought was some sort of venue in Baltimore Explain to them 'Trumpers Crosssing Halt' withoiut mentioning Brussel Sprouts.(It was a stop on the Southall to Brentford Docks line,it was wherre the M4 now crosses the line)
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Post by snoggle on Mar 18, 2018 15:49:29 GMT
My American cousin couldn't stop laughing when I told her "we're in Tooting now". Having lived near the area all my life I'd long forgotten how funny the word may sound to some. I also mention there's a place called Barking, which she totally didn't believe until I showed her a tube map of the station. Later on that day she humorously tagged herself on Facebook that she's at Elephant and Castle, to which one of her Americans friends thought was some sort of venue in Baltimore. The Americans are the last ones who can laugh at daft names. There's a never ending list of utterly bizarre place names as well as Christian names and surnames in the States.
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Post by M1104 on Mar 18, 2018 16:30:15 GMT
Explain to them 'Trumpers Crosssing Halt' withoiut mentioning Brussel Sprouts.(It was a stop on the Southall to Brentford Docks line,it was wherre the M4 now crosses the line) A pity I never knew about that one at the time lol
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Post by RandomBusesGirl on Mar 23, 2018 0:19:31 GMT
H25 to Butts Farm in Hanworth R4 has a curtailment to "Cockmannings" And of course the northern terminus of the Piccadilly line...
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Post by snoggle on Mar 23, 2018 0:53:50 GMT
There is the infamous village in Austria called F*cking but it doesn't appear to have a bus service. There is a hamlet on the edge of Bere Regis called Sh*tterton which Damory's route 187 stops very near to but the actual hamlet is inaccessible to buses. The roads are too narrow. There is a small settlement called Swastika in Ontario, Canada. Again it has no discernible public transit service but there are railway freight tracks. There is Dingle Hill in Colwyn Bay. That just sounds a bit silly but is served by Arriva Buses. There is a place called Pity Me in County Durham served by Go North East. Used to be served by OK Motor Services - I used to go through it when I went to see grandparents in Bishop Auckland. There is Nob Hill in San Franciso. IIRC that's served by the Cable Cars and some MUNI bus routes. In Switzerland there is the 831 bus to "Gland". There is "Arsoli" in Italy - that has a railway station and may have a bus service. Google Maps isn't the best on buses in remote hilly bits of Italy.
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Post by vjaska on Mar 23, 2018 2:01:47 GMT
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