Trivia: When seeing something from a train window can give a false impression

[northwichcat]

If you look out of a train window while travelling through Macclesfield you might notice this shop

Now if you're passing it the road it's obvious that it's a DIY supply shop. However, if you're on a train you can't see what is inside the shop but you can see and read the sign, which sometimes raises a few eyebrows with train passengers.

 

[Harpers Tate]

"When seeing something from a train window can give a false impression"
is the entire premise of the movie "The Girl On The Train" - and presumably of the source novel, too.

 

[Ianno87]

Passing Addenbrooke's Hospital just south of Cambridge on the train, one of the buildimg sites has a machine with 'Siltbuster' written on the side. Which I read as 'Sh*tbuster'

 

[TheNewNo2]

"When seeing something from a train window can give a false impression"
is the entire premise of the movie "The Girl On The Train" - and presumably of the source novel, too.

That novel is not a good read if you know anything about British railways. Set on the West Coast Main Line, in a world where the cancellation of a fast Manchester service somehow causes a lot of people to crowd on to a stopper to Milton Keynes...

The novel would be fine if you don't give a toss about railways mind you, but it feels very sloppily researched from that perspective. Better uses of railways in fiction include James Swallow's "Exile", wherein a very believable trip is taken from Dover to London, and anything from the Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch - you may have ghosts, but he knows what the LU process for dealing with ghost-hunting police would be.

 

[Aussie_Rail]

Never given it a thought, nor can I think of any instances where I've seen something from the train to then find is different when going past in the car etc. hmmm

I saw the movie, The Girl On The Train, interesting film. Much different than the book, obviously being set in New York State was a quite a difference but yeah.

 

[northwichcat]

That novel is not a good read if you know anything about British railways. Set on the West Coast Main Line, in a world where the cancellation of a fast Manchester service somehow causes a lot of people to crowd on to a stopper to Milton Keynes...

The novel is not set on the WCML, it's set on a fictional Buckinghamshire line which gives 'new town' Ashbury a direct train to London which calls at Witney on the way. Possibly by being a fictional line it's supposed to prevent people making comparisons with a real service and claiming it's inaccurate.