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Prog Rocks! - well, thinks he does anyway.
Seen passing Heywood village, Network Rail's unique 950001 approaches journey's end at Westbury with a rail measurement train originating in Newport and taking in many places in the Bristol area including Portbury dock.
A chance to compare and contrast with 150130 passing in the other direction with 2D17 14.38 FGW service from Westbury for Bristol Parkway. Although essentially built using a class 150 bodyshell, 950001 was purpose built as a test vehicle rather than being converted from a former 150 passenger unit.
To left of image the Sprinter has just passed one of those white metal cabinets that seem to festoon the UK railscape (no, I don't know what they're for either, glad it's not just me...), anyways, one particular local numbskull going by the name of PROG seems to think the box, (and also the other two visible further away) is there simply to be scrawled upon in neanderthal-like scribblings.
Honestly, what is the point to traipse* out in the countryside (probably in the middle of the night) stumbling on loose ballast and through prickly hedges to pointlessly daub some moronic message or sobriquet which will probably go totally unnoticed by the masses - blimey this image is from 2013 and it's taken me 13 years to notice!
*what a good word, traipse, no-one says traipse anymore, or daub, daub, another good one, and mosey, there's a complete absence of moseying these days. Oh, oh, and festoon too, don't forget festoon.
- editor's note - and nobody has ever used the phrase 'sobriquet' Pete, not in this part of west Wiltshire leastways. Honestly mate who is that you think you're showing off to??
Pete's note - I'm not the one who just used the phrase 'leastways', where are you from, Mordor?
Prog Rock is of course the popular term for Progressive Rock, a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the UK through the late 1960s. Prog reached it's creative zenith (e.there you again, 'zenith', why can't you just say 'peak' or highpoint?) in the mid-to-late 70s until punk came along and called it names, pulled it's hair, stole it's homework and finally ran off with it's girlfriend.
Prog Rocks! - well, thinks he does anyway.
Seen passing Heywood village, Network Rail's unique 950001 approaches journey's end at Westbury with a rail measurement train originating in Newport and taking in many places in the Bristol area including Portbury dock.
A chance to compare and contrast with 150130 passing in the other direction with 2D17 14.38 FGW service from Westbury for Bristol Parkway. Although essentially built using a class 150 bodyshell, 950001 was purpose built as a test vehicle rather than being converted from a former 150 passenger unit.
To left of image the Sprinter has just passed one of those white metal cabinets that seem to festoon the UK railscape (no, I don't know what they're for either, glad it's not just me...), anyways, one particular local numbskull going by the name of PROG seems to think the box, (and also the other two visible further away) is there simply to be scrawled upon in neanderthal-like scribblings.
Honestly, what is the point to traipse* out in the countryside (probably in the middle of the night) stumbling on loose ballast and through prickly hedges to pointlessly daub some moronic message or sobriquet which will probably go totally unnoticed by the masses - blimey this image is from 2013 and it's taken me 13 years to notice!
*what a good word, traipse, no-one says traipse anymore, or daub, daub, another good one, and mosey, there's a complete absence of moseying these days. Oh, oh, and festoon too, don't forget festoon.
- editor's note - and nobody has ever used the phrase 'sobriquet' Pete, not in this part of west Wiltshire leastways. Honestly mate who is that you think you're showing off to??
Pete's note - I'm not the one who just used the phrase 'leastways', where are you from, Mordor?
Prog Rock is of course the popular term for Progressive Rock, a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the UK through the late 1960s. Prog reached it's creative zenith (e.there you again, 'zenith', why can't you just say 'peak' or highpoint?) in the mid-to-late 70s until punk came along and called it names, pulled it's hair, stole it's homework and finally ran off with it's girlfriend.