Re: GUNZEL

[Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

std wrote:

> My favorite recollections of "Gunzels" was seeing them hanging from Signal
> posts around Waterfall taking photographs. I used to take pity and throw
> them a copy of the X-2010 I was going to throw out at Waterfall, made me
> smile to watch them running up the tracks after a tumbling piece of paper !
>
> The other thing I liked was having my Van stop on a platform somewhere to
> find a group of "gunzels" discussing the "whys and wherefores" about my
> train but totally ignoring the fact I was leaning on the "Dutch doors" and
> was quite happy to give them correct information rather than the "bilge"
> they were carrying on about.
> But you guessed it "gunzels" know more about trains than the lowly Guard.
> --
> Marc Hunt
> (Ex-Enfield Guard)

Know what you mean they come up to me and ask stupid questions:
Why is this seat green and all the others brown?
How much can a Z19 pull?
Should I fake my orgasms?
Whats the difference between and XPT and HST?

Anyway if you are stupid enough and give them and answer you are alway wrong.

rgds