I've just been catching up on a *huge* backlog of sinister posts, and I found this from a week ago: On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, David White wrote:
Speaking of trains, British Rail (or whatever they are called these days) really are hopeless aren't they. I say this as a regular train traveller, but today they surpassed themselves. In the one week when trains have become much more important since people can't use cars (petrol shortage in the UK for all those overseas listees), they decide to introduce a brand spanking new train at Glasgow Central station. Except that the damn thing got no further than 100 yards out of the platform before it derailed and thus caused pandemonium for all subsequent trains in and out of the station. D'oh!
You see, I have some friend-of-a-friend inside information on this. The derailing of the train wasn't a problem. The problem was that it started moving *by itself*; when the panicking staff realised it was heading on to the main line, they derailed it deliberately. These brand spanking new trains will, therefore, have to sit around doing nothing for a year or so, whilst men with clipboards look at their brakes and go "hmmm..." Yours, belatedly (and suchlike) -- Will Salt +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+