Tickets: Odd/funny "from" and "to" locations

[Eagle]

It translates in TLCs as DEL & AYS

Delamere is DLM...

 

[gnolife]

Delamere is DLM...

so it is... i must be going daft

 

[MidnightFlyer]

TLCs? I've never been to Tal Y Cafn.

And I still don't get FRO to TOO. In what way is that a odd/funny location for a ticket?

This thread is supposed to be about locations printed on the ticket.

Three letter code...

I go agree though, some on here are very tenuous.

Delamere is DLM...

To be fair I was just relaying what the original poster of that said, to be fair I probably should have checked.

 

[thewolf]

Longport to Longton in Stoke-on-Trent perhaps?


They are reasonably similar, and I must admit to buying a ticket to Longton from the TVM, rather than Longport by mistake a couple of weeks back

 

[Scotrail84]

Barry Links - Barry Island

Holytown - Holyhead

 

[David Goddard]

Starting out in East Anglia:

Reedham (Norfolk) to Reedham (London)
Newport (Essex) to Newport (South Wales)
Brampton (Suffolk) to Brampton (Cumbria)

 

[Mutant Lemming]

Bugle - Looe

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Would Sugar Loaf to Bredbury be stretching matters too far?

 

[Strat-tastic]

I have a ticket which I collected off a pax on his return journey -East Croydon to Porridge...any guess where he'd been? clue:- the ticket was a hand written NCR 51 done by our then Rastaferian chief clerk (of suspect smoking habit).

Dorridge for a spot of breakfast perhaps?

 

[Marvin]

Dalston to Dalston Junction would be quite a trek. So would Penryn to Penrhyn.

Also, University to Dean amuses me.

 

[aspierail]

St Margarets (London) to St Margarets (Hertfordshire)

 

[466.networkers]

Surprised no-one's mentioned Sheerness - Dungeness yet ...

 

[David Goddard]

Surprised no-one's mentioned Sheerness - Dungeness yet ...

Or Skegness.....

 

[The Sleeper]

Is it permitted to use a time machine and buy tickets in 1950? just imagine the stations you could go to and from then Think I'll start at Marsh Gibbon to???

 

[krus_aragon]

Is it permitted to use a time machine and buy tickets in 1950? just imagine the stations you could go to and from then Think I'll start at Marsh Gibbon to???

You could take a train from Aber (Abergwyngregyn) to Aber halt (Caerphilly) via Aber(ystwyth)!

 

[Green Lane]

Hope (Flintshire) to Hope (Derbyshire)

 

[jwos]

In good old APTIS days you could issue a ticket from breakfast to dinner via lunch.

I'm still mourning the passing of Three Cocks Junction and Cockermouth from the comedy station names railway map, leaving us with Littlehampton, Hampton Court, Hampton, Hampton Wick and Penistone as the main trousersnake inspired railheads.

 

[Keith Jarrett]

What about Matlock to Bath via Matlock Bath?
Southampton to Northampton (via Hampton)
Preston to Preston Park
Ash to Bury via Ashburys
Acton Bridge to South Acton
West Hampstead to West Hampstead (Thameslink)
Collington to Collingham

and there's loads more!

 

[Buttsy]

In good old APTIS days you could issue a ticket from breakfast to dinner via lunch.

I'm still mourning the passing of Three Cocks Junction and Cockermouth from the comedy station names railway map, leaving us with Littlehampton, Hampton Court, Hampton, Hampton Wick and Penistone as the main trousersnake inspired railheads.

What about Clitheroe & Scunthorpe for ladies parts???

 

[northwichcat]

Hope (Flintshire) to Hope (Derbyshire)

It would be funny if tickets for the Hope Valley stopper had 'via Hope' printed on them, especially considering it's usually run by a 142.

 

[button_boxer]

It would be funny if tickets for the Hope Valley stopper had 'via Hope' printed on them, especially considering it's usually run by a 142.

Cue the Sheffield jokes about Edale being beyond Hope...

 

[hmp455]

Dorking (Main) to Dorking Deepdene

 

[island]

Dunton Green to Dumpton Park.

 

[Buttsy]

Shrub Hill to Cherry Tree

 

[ChrisTheRef]

Aintree to Braintree?

My favourite out of all 145 posts has to be March to Battle though

 

[northwichcat]

I don't think anyone's mentioned Northwich to Nantwich.

 

[krus_aragon]

Tygwyn (White House) to Ty Glas (Blue House)

 

[Schnellzug]

I've always wanted to go from Liverpool Street to Liverpool Lime Street.

 

[Alan1310]

cambridge to cambridge heath

 

[Hydro]

I've always wanted to go from Liverpool Street to Liverpool Lime Street.

On lodging turns, once the shift is over, our crews get a taxi to the hotel. An infamous tale is of a crew member phoning the booking company for a taxi from Liverpool Street station, and waiting outside for it. Time passes, with no sign of the taxi. A quick ring back; "Where's this cab I ordered?" "OK, we'll chase it up". Few minutes pass, the agency phones back. "Driver says he's waiting outside" "No he's not, there's no one waiting here" "He says he's been outside Lime Street for 15 minutes!" "Well, I can't see hi...wait, LIME Street?!"