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Speicher said:I have already said my favourite English word, (synchronicity) but may I add Stumpfgleis? It is a type of Railway platform, but for trains that terminate at a station, rather than passing through. Reading has one, IIRC, and Swindon. I do not know what they are called in English.
jonesy said:[train spod]
Bay platforms.
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Sadly I have to spend rather a lot of my week at Reading platform 4a/4b
Speicher said:Thank you Jonesy. Despite lots of foreign holidays involving trains, lots and lots of trains, and track bashing, I did not know about Bay Platforms.
What btw the way is train spod?
Speicher said:I thought that was a Gricer!
I have been called a Train spotter and track basher in the past. and I used to be a TTI on the Severn Valley Railway.
Oh dear! Way off topic I'm afraid! I remember the bay platforms at Reading only too well, used to dodge London by getting the train from Redhill to Guildford and Reading, then change for a mainline train to Oxford or beyond...jonesy said:[train spod]
Bay platforms.
[/train spod]
Sadly I have to spend rather a lot of my week at Reading platform 4a/4b
661-Pete said:Oh dear! Way off topic I'm afraid! I remember the bay platforms at Reading only too well, used to dodge London by getting the train from Redhill to Guildford and Reading, then change for a mainline train to Oxford or beyond...
I'll get my anorak...