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  1. jackshepherd

    jackshepherd Member

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    Hi everyone,
    ive always been wondering what these words actually mean?
    Bashing?
    scratching?
    rare cop?

    Any help would be grateful :)
     
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    Spamcan81 Nat Pres stalwart

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    Cop : If you see a loco for the first time it is a "cop". A rare "cop" would be seeing a loco well away from its usual route. For example a Doncaster B1 turning up in Bristol.
     
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  3. Martin Perry

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    Bashing = obsessively travelling behind your favourite class of loco ( there are also 'track bashers' whose prime objective in life is to travel over unusual or rare sections of track)
    Scratching = number collecting, or even completing collecting the numbers of a particular class.
     
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    Thrash?
     
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    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    Locomotive working at full power with plenty of noise.
     
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    Surely scratching is what bathers did after bashing all weekend including kipping overnight in a compo?
     
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  7. Martin Perry

    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    I love autocorrect :)
     
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    So do I, esp as by all accounts one thing bashers didn't do was bathe.
     
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    Right this one is for our diesel rail fans - what on earth is 'veg' ?!?
     
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    Short for vegetable, insulting term for persistent platform enders or your mates for amusement.
     
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    There is a whole lexicon out there. Gripper - a ticket collector and obviously the generic enthusiast - gricer.
     
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    4 VEG - 4 VEP with exra space for luggage as used on Gatwick services. units 7788 -7799 renumbered as 7901 to 7912
     
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    Something of an insight to the world of 'bashing' here:

     
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    Wow....just...wow....
     
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    Then there is;
    'bail'
    'ching'
    'flag'
    :)
     
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    Nice little trip down memory lane there recognised a few faces! I remember the outcry about Rail wanting to rename '408 amongst other reasons , I think that someone from said mag had made a big deal in the previous year or so about why locos should keep their names and not be renamed every 5 minutes. Intresting vid though heard so much about it from various people now I know what all the fuss is about!
     
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    Haven't hard "ned" "flailer" "dreadful" "window licker" for a while.
    "Gronker" or "Gronkite"

    maybe we should start a list on here ??
     
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    What about this one:

     
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    Believe that one translates roughly as "I really, really need a girlfriend"
     
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    But am unlikely to get one. :)
     
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