Re: GUNZEL

[keithm@commslab.gov.au (Dave Malcolm)]

In article <375B7F7F.445ADEE4@fastlink.com.au> Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au> writes:
>From: Railway Rasputin <bob@fastlink.com.au>
>Subject: Re: GUNZEL
>Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 18:14:56 +1000



>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

How much coal and water do you use?

Dave Malcolm