Collective Nouns

[PaxVobiscum]

An unlikelihood of pristine train toilets

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

An uncertainty of G4S station staff

 

[Peter Mugridge]

No Paul, that's surely a gang of...?

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A stable door bolt of cautionary announcements given after the passage non stopping trains

EDIT: (Oops, sorry to interrupt)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

No Paul, that's surely a gang of...?

From what I have seen, Peter, uncertainty seems to be a definite part of their general make-up whilst on duty ... :roll:

 

[PaxVobiscum]

An incredulity (of such a large number) of Virgin employees

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A pod of Seal ZGA open materials waggons

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A handholding of brake hoses

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A knot of DEMU "Tadpoles"

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A light-headedness of clerestory coaches

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A cohort of Walrus ZGV bogie bolster hopper waggons

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A rowlocking of ore wagons

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A school of Shark ZUV ballast plough brake vans

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A box of BR bauxite box vans

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A box of BR bauxite box vans

A box of box vans..:roll:........you are normally far more creative than this..

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A teminality of bay platforms

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A box of box vans..:roll:........you are normally far more creative than this..

It was a stammer ...

OK then, how about

A - lumina of bauxite waggons

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Now that's more like you.......


A sleekness of Shinkensen bullet trains

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A grand of slam door coaches

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A singing of lineside telegraph wires

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A staff of point rodding (very comforting still)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

An enormity of Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" locomotives

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A lightly of treadles (these are definitely getting worse!)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A stanier of tapered boilers

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A rudeness of points

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

An evercreech of ex-junctions

 

[PaxVobiscum]

An evercreech of junctions

Shouldn't that be junctions which, as famously described elsewhere:

have passed on/are no more/have ceased to be/have expired and gone to meet their maker/are bereft of life, and resting in peace/are pushing up the daisies/whose metabolic processes are now history/are off the twig/have kicked the bucket/have shuffled off their mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile

- in fact, ex-junctions?

Not that it matters.

An kindling of East Coast steam railtours

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Amendment duly made...with you "mentioned in despatches" in the "Reasons for editing"...

A brunel of leather air tubular cases for atmospheric railway use.

 

[PaxVobiscum]

Amendment duly made...with you "mentioned in despatches" in the "Reasons for editing"...

Thank you, kind sir!

A float of West Highland Railway embankments

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A troupe of wheeltappers

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A squabble of Welsh narrow gauge railway restoration schemes