Collective Nouns

[PaxVobiscum]

A parsimony of Borders Railway passing loops

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/...ailway-may-have-longer-journey-times.18582008

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A somnolence of troop sleeping cars.

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A refinery of ETHELs

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A springing of steel coil waggons

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A ghost train of bulk spirit waggons

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=70574

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A weathering of open waggons.

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A centumiliad of Virgin fans

113143 at time of posting

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A transference of corridor coaches

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A litigation of irate TOCs

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A division of compartment coaches

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A clagmire of diesels stuck in landslips

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

This, unfortunately, will be my final posting on this long running quiz as I seem to have stretched my ingenuity and creativity to its final frontier.....unless divine intervention sends down the light of understanding on me

A duality of double decker coaching stock.

 

[Old-School]

A Parliamentary of minimal train service runs (to avoid closing the route or station)

 

[Golghar]

A syndrome of siderodromologists, commonly known as a gaggle of gricers

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A bag of illicit seat reservations by hand luggage

For example the blatant hogging of empty table seats by an old bag on the Dundee to Queen Street service on Monday

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A Crow of railway union militancy.

 

[deltic1989]

A Constellation of Eurostar's

(Thanks must go to Paul's avatar for the inspiration for this collective noun)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A judicial-reviewal of querulous rail franchises.

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A claustrophoby of Waverley Station roof repairs.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A come-day-go-day of Transport Ministers

 

[PaxVobiscum]

I just knew you had more to contribute, Paul Sidorczuk!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Current events and all that...


A verbosity of Shadow Transport Ministers

 

[Peter Mugridge]

A swordpoint ( for falling onto ) of Flying Scotsman deadlines.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

One from the very early days of British railway development....

An obsolescence of wrought-iron rails.

 

[deltic1989]

A murder of Bob Crows

 

[PaxVobiscum]

A pickle of Branson's railway hopes

(OK I know it should be "Branston" for the pickle)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

An Abt of rack and pinion railways.

 

[PaxVobiscum]

An Abt of rack and pinion railways.

I must confess to being completely bemused by that one!

An amphibiousness of Network Rail emergency response teams.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I must confess to being completely bemused by that one!

Find some information on Carl Roman Abt (1850-1933) and all will be made clear to you.

 

[PaxVobiscum]

Find some information on Carl Roman Abt (1850-1933) and all will be made clear to you.

Doh! For some reason I had always thought he was Carl R. Abbot!
Next you'll be telling me that it wasn't Thomas Beecham who closed all the railways.