2006-07-21 10:41:52 · 12 answers · asked by Pound Shop Price List 2 in Travel ➔ Other - Destinations
My dad was a train driver and he said. 'They know all the things that you don't need to know to be able to drive an engine,'
ie:- driving a steam loco in fog at nighttime and knowing where you are just by the light of the fire shining on the track-side.
if this is the sort of train-spotter you mean.
2006-07-21 10:51:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Although train spotters in the UK are ridiculed, it's their hobby and they're doing no harm. This is a predominantly male pastime, usually undertaken by social inadequates who are unable to form relationships with the fairer sex.
I've worked on the railways for over twenty five years and have become something of an anorak - spotter. Only the other day at Doncaster I spotted a 1995 Marks & Spencer beige anorak with detachable hood, which I duly entered in my W H Smith lined notebook.
2006-07-21 13:36:02 · answer #2 · answered by Andy M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have the same response as Steve S. I am a retired freight train conductor, among other things, and I'm hearing your term "train spotters" and I'm thinking of the people who you find along the tracks taking pictures of us as we go along the track beside them. If that's the case, I haven't had any trouble with them. We just wave, as do they, and they come up with some fantastic photographs that only train lovers can truly enjoy. God Bless you.
2006-07-21 10:56:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a morning person and when i had to travel on the early train ion business I couldn't get over that there was about 6 of them at the station with video cameras and everything..
How do these people get by financially???
Do the get a special type of dole that i havent been told of?? If they do i'm packin my job in, i could go and sit down at a train station and drink coffee/read the paper/smoke fags all day.. no problems
2006-07-21 10:55:44 · answer #4 · answered by alx n 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They usually lie somewhere on the autistic spectrum. I've met some lovely ones and some REALLY weird ones. Generally they're just people.
2006-07-21 10:48:26 · answer #5 · answered by Lydia R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once dated a train spotter...
I thought that they couldn't be as bad as the rep they got...
THEY'RE WORSE!! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!
2006-07-21 10:48:24 · answer #6 · answered by ...o(_insert witty comment_) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weird loners / paedophilic tendancies
2006-07-21 10:45:13 · answer #7 · answered by super_star 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They wear anoraks
2006-07-21 10:47:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't say it floats my boat.
However it's a harmless hobby their not Murdering,raping,stealing etc
So I say leave them be.
2006-07-21 10:54:47 · answer #9 · answered by voxelshadow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the musical kind are fine
2006-07-21 10:45:22 · answer #10 · answered by chef spicey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋