Littlehampton Gazette
8th September 2009" Gaugemaster, one of the largest model railway businesses in the country, held two open days at its Ford Road base, attracting people from Surrey, Salisbury and even Scotland. "
Why do media *always* have to use crummy puns in headlines for any stories to do with trains of any scale, e.g., on track, steaming ahead, derailed, hit the buffers?
I guess puns are a tradition for headline writers.
I think they have a little book full of them :-
A railroad engineer must be sure not to loose his train of thought or he might go down the wrong track.
The railway had a safety problem, but tried to cover its tracks.
A train load of paint derailed. Nearby businesses were put in the red.
Those building railways have to do a lot of tracking or their project will de-rail.
On the old trains the engineer had a lot of esteem.
Chris
It starts when they work on school or university newspapers, which develops a habit they can't break. My brother and his buddy competed to find the most atrocious puns for the headlines. They were the paste-up guys, back in the days when a page was designed by pasting galleys onto the dummy page. Paste-up guys also wrote the headlines. The Editor occasionally changed their efforts, especially the more scabrous ones. ;-)
Wolf K.
There was a classic goof in the Daily Express just last week:
I don't know how the writers got away with that one.
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