Re: Slops

["John Wayman" <trecker@bigpond.com>]

I thought the "Daylight" was known as the "Day late"?

Cheers
John Wayman

Krel wrote in message <36f6e98f.9696129@news.netconnect.com.au>...
>On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 05:48:03 GMT, jdennis@acslink.net.au (John Dennis)
>wrote:
>
>>Reading this month's ARHS (not the NSW) Bulletin I came across a
>>reference to the Spirit of Progress being known to railfans as "the
>>slops" - the leftovers from the Southern Aurora.  Now, I believe I
>>have been a railfan for this last 35 years or so, and have never heard
>>this before.  Was it in common use?  Maybe a "north-of-the-border"
>>thing?
>>
>North of the border (just) the trains were  called the "Spirit" and
>the "Aurora" (or the "Roarer"); collectively they were known as the
>"Cats" (sleek and shiny and come out at night).
>The question to Junee control about whether the Spirit of Progress and
>Southern Aurora were on time or not became "How's the Cats?".
>The Intercapital Daylight  was always called the "Daylight" and the
>Riverina Express was called the "Riverina". AIUI south of the border
>the Daylight was called by some the "ICD".
>
>When the Cats were combined they were the Melbourne Express and the
>Sydney Express, commonly called the Mex and the Sex.
>
>Nowadays they are called the XPT. No-one, it seems, uses the "Olympic
>Dream" or "Olympic Nightmare" or whatever the official names are ;-).
>
>
>Cheers
>
>Krel
>
>Just another eccentric crank.