Departure board at Ebbsfleet: 'St Pancake'

[gazthomas]

The rolling eyes suggest it upsets you a little?

I think he's rolling his eyes at the quality of his own joke (or, dare I say it, lack thereof )

Exactly! It left me as flat as pancake!

 

[Domh245]

One wonders what the tocs have lined up for tomorrow, not so much that it's Ash Wednesday but St Valentine's day?????

Almost as bad as GWR's #CoupleUp campaign...

I don't know - I think that GWR's video for tomorrow is quite a fun little thing, and has none of the operational issues that usually crop up with pun-ifying station names

https://twitter.com/GWRHelp/status/963431545548787713

 

[Bletchleyite]

I don't know - I think that GWR's video for tomorrow is quite a fun little thing, and has none of the operational issues that usually crop up with pun-ifying station names

https://twitter.com/GWRHelp/status/963431545548787713

Yeah, can't see any issues with that. Quite amusing really.

 

[Crossover]

South Eastern were also giving away free pancakes at St Pancras as well, to celebrate Pancake Day

I've seen a photo of one from a friend of mine - they look more like Rice Krispies bars!

One wonders what the tocs have lined up for tomorrow, not so much that it's Ash Wednesday but St Valentine's day?????

I think they did something like that last year, or was it another event I am getting it confused with?

 

[jon0844]

So St Pancake one way and Sandwich the other?

 

[D365]

So St Pancake one way and Sandwich the other?

What a Deal!

 

[snowball]

For those of us who call the station St Pancreas they should have had sweetbreads.

 

[GusB]

For those of us who call the station St Pancreas they should have had sweetbreads.

B***ocks to that

 

[jon0844]

What a Deal!

With the HS1 supplement you get a beverage thrown in too.

 

[Bald Rick]

All these pancake puns ... I feel rather battered.

 

[jon0844]

All these pancake puns ... I feel rather battered.

I don't get most of them. I feel like a right lemon.

 

[Jurg]

I don't get most of them. I feel like a right lemon.

That's quite un oeuf, pancake day was hours ago.

 

[Frontera2]

I knew somebody on here would have a "thought" about this......... lighten up, no need to flip out. It's just a bit of fun.

I thought long and hard before doing this - but it was for one station for one day.. I don't buy the "it's confusing to foreigners" line. The announcements on board and displays on the side of the trains still said the true name of the station. And to be honest, if 1 person did miss their train, is that so bad given the priceless positive media coverage it brought for the industry?