FGW Scalextric train


http://www.youtube.com/embed/b7-OS89y5t8

And, yes, I though "Scalextric?" before I watched.

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Can we start one of those "if it's only one vehicle is it technically a train?" discussions? Apart from that I'd file it under "quirky but charming". Some GWR fans will love it; others will splutter into their soup.
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On 2014-05-22 8:01 AM, Sam Wilson wrote:

Of course it's a train. A train is any vehicle or combination of vehicles that has authority to run on the mainline. A helper engine returning to base is a train (for example). So's a single unit railcar (for example). Authority is granted by timetable and/or signals and/or running order (train order). Nothing "technical" about this, it's universal.
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Universal - right. Some people might look at the OED[1] and see the words "series" and "connected" and think they don't apply in this case. :-)
Sam (not stirring it at all, honest)
[1] "A series of connected railway carriages or wagons moved by a locomotive or by integral motors" <http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/train
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wrote:

Brunel will be turning in his grave , it was bad enough when the 7ft and a bit gauge was abolished but that "model" has taken the insult too far.
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snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Didn't the GWR bring in those single unit steam railmotors and diesel railcars?
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snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Well spluttered, sir!
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