Trivia: Traincrew nicknames for routes

[Russel]

Off topic, the bingo caller says "Five and Nne" and the chorus of punters all bleat "The Brighton Line!"

Is this simply just a bingo thing or is there actually a link between the number 59 and the Brighton Line?

I know Chiltern sometimes still display route numbers on the train PIS so could be an old Southern Region thing?

I may be thinking too much into this, but I've always wondered...

 

[WAB]

The Vale of Glamorgan line via Barry — known as the VOG (rhymes with bog).

 

[Wyrleybart]

The Jolly Joint Line for Lincoln to Peterborough, mostly Nottingham crews this one as it used to be top link work and were very pleasant 5 to 7hr length turns.

The Grand Central crews sign two diversionary routes involving the Joint lines and they call them the "Long joint" and the "Short Joint".

A very long time ago when XC had a train crew depot at Brighton they had a couple of diversionary routes and one train a week was actually routed over "Two Hills" and "Three Hills". Can't remember now but I think Tulse Hill and Streatham were involved.

The line from Chesterfield to Sheffield via Barrow Hill was known as "old road".

Chesterfield-Derby via Toton is "via Erewash".

Stenson-Sheet Stores Is "via Castle Don"

An old West Mids saying was "the clog & knocker" which i first heard related to the line from Wednesbury to Tipton via Ocker Hill, but was used for any line that was slow.

The line from Old Hill round to Dudley was the "Bumble Hole".

 

[Rescars]

Is this simply just a bingo thing or is there actually a link between the number 59 and the Brighton Line?

I know Chiltern sometimes still display route numbers on the train PIS so could be an old Southern Region thing?

I may be thinking too much into this, but I've always wondered...

It seems that the SR 59 headcode was used to indicate the London Bridge - Littlehampton via Redhill and Horsham route, so the answer to your question depended on whether or not you were going further than Three Bridges!

 

[warwickshire]

The goblin line, Gospel Oak to Barking.

 

[airantraigh]

"York flyer" used over the PA for the hourly Edinburgh, first stop York.

1e01 (5.40 flying Scotsman Edinburgh- King’s Cross) is referred to just as “the flyer” as well, particularly by Newcastle crew

 

[warwickshire]

Very local to me, and in my area,

Following on from the darker side of the line between Birmingham Snow Hiill and Worcester, now for the Southern side,

We have the other side of the line, between Birmingham Snow Hill and Stratford upon Avon via Shirley known as the North Warwickshire line, although we like to call it and plus the local train crews, that work it, nickname it further, the North Warwicks, nicknamed further.

Even more diverse the older generation, and other generations of Train Crew, ie Charter and Vintage trains, nickname it the Shakespeare Line after William Shakespeares birthplace in Stratford upon Avon, and the Shakespeare Express itself,

This Line is unique in having 3 nicknames,
Plus 4 nicknames including the darker side as mentioned above, involving the direct services from Stratford upon Avon to Worcester that operate on it,