April Fools on the Railway... 2016

[Clip]

Here's one from my local paper:

CROYDON'S trams are being repainted in red and blue stripes in a bid to help Crystal Palace return to form in the Premier League.
http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/...ystal-Palace/story-29028310-detail/story.html

Not a rail one but I did like this that they said also
http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/...s-colour-sky/story-29032225-detail/story.html

Anything to make Croydon look nice lol

 

[Mordac]

No one checked my tickets yesterday either direction. I sure feel like an April fool for buying it. :P

My partner fell for the driverless trams in Edinburgh one.

 

[bb21]

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/giant_new_rail_hub_could_be_built_at_swainsthorpe_to_achieve_dream_of_norwich_in_90_1_4479108

Swainsthorpe? Isn't that a station from Oh, Doctor Beeching!?

 

[alexl92]

Did anyone notice whether the Talyllyn did one this year? They did a good one a year or two ago - think it was about a new-build or something?

 

[Crossover]

Here's one about the Felix the Huddersfield Station Cat being poached by Leeds

First Article

Second Article

There was practically a lynch mob formed of Felix's followers on Facebook!

 

[scotsman]

There was practically a lynch mob formed of Felix's followers on Facebook!

I could tell it was a hoax purely because moves from TOCs to NR are so rare

 

[Crossover]

I could tell it was a hoax purely because moves from TOCs to NR are so rare

Also, the spokesperson for TPE was Miss April Furl...

 

[185]

I am aware a certain operators' staff at one depot on 1 April 2016 received in their pigeon holes, uniform sizing forms for a certain other train company, prompting chaos, a mad panic and near riots to establish who they actually worked for.

Allegedly :P

 

[Groningen]

In 1993 on April 1st a dieseltrain used in the north of the Netherlands was used a beachrunner between Rotterdam and Hoek van Holland. Normally an electric line.