Re: Trainspotters (Gunzels) on TV

[G.Lambert@unsw.edu.au (Geoff Lambert)]

"Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au> wrote:

>On the Wollongong WIN 4 news this evening there was a story about
>trainspotters. They showed a group at Maldon today waiting for the Clyde
>locos to arrive. They interviewed one of the group and then had footage of
>the train passing and then showed someone laying a bit of rubber as they
>took off for the next vantage point.
>There had earlier been a story about a job agency in Picton so I would
>assume the news crew was returning to Wollongong and saw the group at Maldon
>and stopped to see what they were waiting for.

A preview appeared in one of the weekend papers of a new movie ("The
Man on Platform 9" (?), based on a book, being a re-write of
Pygmalian/My Fair Lady in which someone attempts to turn a
train-spotter into a human being.  Sounds like a silk purse into a
sows ear to me.

Geoff Lambert