Caption Corner for September 2011...
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From Eric Broom:
»"Don't take the lamps off, with my weight on the back end, it'll tip up"
»A Blue 88 when it was a "pup"
»Due to shortage of footplate staff, the WSR are planning "One Man Operations"
»"When they started building that triangle I told them it was the wrong gauge"
From Jon Tooke:
»NEWSFLASH. Gulliver is spotted trying to make good his escape.
»"When the railway said it was scaling back I thought they meant something else!"
»After showing his children how it is done, local man gets himself stuck inside kiddie ride train.
From Robin White:
»Paul Conibeare, WSR General Manager has been quoted as saying that the rival Slightly-Further-West Somerset Railway, laid on the unused up formation between Dunster and Minehead under European open-access legislation is 'no threat' to WSR services. The SFWSR is thought to have been laid by a WSR splinter-group in their lunchtime using materials recovered from Bishops Lydeard Goods Shed model railway layout. "They failed to impress during the Beer Festival" said Paul "as they could only carry two pints of beer on any train." A SFWSR spokesman was unavailable for comment as he had become stuck in his locomotive.
From Chris Osment:
»You may think that it's steam powered, but actually I'm pedalling it thru' this hole in the floor.
»I told them it was a mistake to go thru' the carriage washer, now we've all shrunk!
»The WSRA unveils its proposed 'light rail' link from Norton Fitzwarren to Taunton, saying that its small loading gauge would avoid problems of sharing Network Rail infrastructure as it could be routed through existing culverts and storm drains.
»Planned 'first train to Barnstaple' runs into problems with limited coal-carrying capacity.
From Steve Richardson:
»I said it would shrink in that new biological powder...and look! Still tis warm and cozy in here
»Our brave WSR elite force adopt a new policy of sneaking under the radar in a miniature locomotives to conduct stealth reconnaissance into "Triangle land"
»Oliver Postgate supporters make a break for real life in a blue "Ivor the Engine II"
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