Collective Nouns

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A clipping of tickets

 

[allticketspls]

An Excess of Revenue Officers

 

[Welshman]

An argument of drunken passengers

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

An Aspinall of 4-4-2 Highfliers

 

[Welshman]

A cramp of pacers.

 

[Eng274]

a multiplex of DVTs

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

An opening of regulators

 

[Eng274]

A flop of 89s...

I realise the irony in that only one was ever made, negating the need for a collective noun

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

An enclosure of bay platforms.

 

[Welshman]

A stifle of Northern 158s

[two I travelled in yesterday had the heat on!! The emergency ventilators had been opened, but with little effect].

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A flop of 89s...

I realise the irony in that only one was ever made, negating the need for a collective noun

A singularity of 71000 "Duke" Class

(For the same reason that you have said for yours)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A protection of Brake Vans.

 

[Welshman]

[with apologies to the Psalmist, Anthony Trollope and an American Evangelical Group:-


A Quiverfull of Rail UK Quiz contestants

[they're as sharp as any arrow]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A desolation of lost property.

 

[Eagle]

An inadequacy of Voyagers.

An obsolescence of Mark IIs.

An infestation of Pacers.

and of course

An inclination of Pendolinos.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A loneliness of isolators

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

An ocean of Pacifics

 

[Welshman]

A swelter of dead Cl.91 Mk4 coaches when power lines are down. [can also be used of pendos.]

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

An untruth of fare evaders

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A network of rails

 

[37 418]

A (mind the) gap of tube stations?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A delaying of passengers

 

[TrainfanBen]

A race of sprinters.

EDIT:
The hissing of HST's

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A theft of cables

 

[Eng274]

A disappointment of Rail Replacement buses

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A cageful of Brutes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A fleet of Western Region Warships

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

An explosion of detonators.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

A somnolence of sleeping coaches.

 

[SwindonPkwy]

A confusion of engineers.