An article in true, er, " trainspotter " style about a kind of locomotive of which only six were ever built ( we don't learn where, or by whom ) and of which none have survived.
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Michael Palin stayed at the hotel in 1980, as part of his " Confessions of a Trainspotter " journey from London Euston to Kyle of Lochalsh for the BBC show " Great Railway Journeys of the World ".
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:: I have no idea if this helps, but : On a few websites, Anton�n DvoY�k is desribed as having been a train enthusiast and gricer ( where " gricer " seems to be a term for trainspotter ) .-- talk ) 12 : 51, 29 January 2009 ( UTC)
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Mostly cookies are like railway tickets : they have some numbers in them, and the important one may be a ticket number-but ( unless you're a serious trainspotter ) all the numbers are, from your perspective, essentially inscrutable .-- Talk 08 : 31, 7 April 2013 ( UTC)
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But in recent years _ even before the novel and then the movie " Trainspotting " made the term more familiar _ " trainspotter " has come to mean a general nerd or loser, the kind of person who wears ugly National Health Service eyeglasses and carts around a sheaf of pens and a sad, soggy sandwich.
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I am accustomed to seeing it in the UK as a plain mistake, in contexts where there is no suggestion that the author is using American English-- e . g . a quick Google search has found the word " practicing " on this page from the BBC / British Council teaching English :-),,, Trainspotter,,, 12 : 26, 14 Aug 2004 ( UTC)
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I feel the admin ( GWERNOL ) who posted the article AGAIN for deletion, is, per his page, a self proclaimed Welsh trainspotter; so his interest in this genre : The Amercian Dance & Pop genre may not be best to qualify this Subjects contributions as Scott Shermans industry does not seem to be of the admins interests; just as i would know nothing of British industrial narrow gauge railways, a history of narrow gauge railways in the UK, comprehensive listing of same, Minimum gauge railways.
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Apart from the two series of'Adrian Mole', Sammarco's other television appearances included an interview on " Des O'Connor Tonight " ( 1985 ), co-presenting the first series of the children's Saturday morning show " Get Fresh " ( 1986 ), played Whizzkid in the 1988 " Doctor Who " story " The Greatest Show in the Galaxy ", and the geeky trainspotter in the " Press Gang " episode " Something Terrible " ( 1990 ).
