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Kent & East Sussex Railway

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by martin1656, Apr 10, 2017.

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    I just hope for all our sakes that there was no VPL…. Around 30 years ago there was a loco owning consortium at the Caledonian Railway Brechin known as the Angus Railway Steam Engineers’ (Yes, there really was, it’s existence was noted in the daily sketch column in ‘The Scotsman’). And if you travel another 30 miles north you can meet up with the ‘Bon-Accord Locomotive Society’. The world of railways is littered with acronyms, it’s nothing new. I remember someone here a few years ago struggling with the news that ‘A1A had been asked to leave the NVR’.
     
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    No doubt named every bit as deliberately as Simon Groom's legendary "What a lovely pair of knockers" and comment that for hedging 'you need a good length for a good lay' on Blue Peter, which for decades people naively believed were mistakes, giving his sly sense of humour far less credit than it deserved.
     
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    Which makes me wonder if the Spa Valley's original moniker - TWERPS - was inadvertent (or not).
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    Yes, it was deliberate, from memory a two fingers at someone. One of the consortium suggested a change of name to ‘Steam Ecosse’, the opinion was, ‘no thanks’. Back in those days there were so many loco groups/consortiums we needed acronyms to keep track of who was who, CTSLG, CTSPS, TTG, SPS/SDPS, BRPS, CRB, CRDG. Then the Strathspey Railway has the wonderfully named BOGGOS….
     
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