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Train horn go 'parp'

  • 22-06-2000 10:12am
    #1
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭


    Maybe I'm just mad...

    Why DO trains parp their horns when they're standing stock still? Are they saying "I'm ready to bugger off now?"... are the trains talking to each other in some sort of ridiculous parpy code?

    I ask because the office where I work is directly next to/under the train lines going into Connolly Station (where the lines split and cross bridges, coming into Connolly, after Clontarf Road) and the noise is enough to drive one nucking futs at times.

    I can understand them parping their horns when flying at some loony speed along the track and they notice some stupid man/woman/squirrell/giraffe on the line in front of them, but when they're just sitting around on the lines outside the station parping endlessly to each other... WHY???

    Hmm... medication time again...
    Bard

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Comments

  • #2
    Lucutus
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    Oh, the humanity!

    get a life
    Lucutus of Borg


  • #3
    SantaHoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭SantaHoe


    hmmm, this 'parp'....

    It could be one of the things on the train-driver/operator's checklist.
    Perhaps he needs to test his er... parping-alert-horn before he/she leaves the station.
    Or maybe it alerts others to the presence of a train that will soon be active.
    Or even out of pure boredom?

    It's hard to speculate realy, I suppose it's only something that the train-operators themselves can answer.

    PS. might consider moving this to After-Hours
    PPS Lucutus, chill baby.


  • #4
    Bard
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    Dead-o... thanks for your intelligent reply.

    Bard
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    PS: Hmm... perhaps.
    PPS: Yip, agreed. Chill, Luc.


  • #5
    Lucutus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭Lucutus


    lol

    you crazy kidz

    *shakes head*

    P.S. I dare you to ask a train operator in the same manner as asked here...
    Lucutus of Borg


  • #6
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    *parrrrrrp*

    maybe I will... MAYBE I will! tongue.gif
    Bard

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    [This message has been edited by Bard (edited 23-06-2000).]


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  • #7
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    That's if you can find one - quite a few of 'em are on Strike!

    This of course means, Spud Munchers from the Wilds of Mayo have to get on a fúcking bus in Athlone and put up with small, ****ty seats and a very uncomfortable trip home.


    All the best,

    Dav
    @B^)
    My page of stuff


  • #8
    Draco
    Subscribers Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭Draco


    AFAIK, a train has to go "parp" when it is:
    *Starting
    *Stopping
    *Entering a station
    *Leaving a station
    *Entering a tunnel
    *Whenever the driver feels like it.

    Draco


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