On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:33:28 GMT, Bill Hayles
wrote:

It probably happened with Ashford to Ashford (for which I remember
seeing a ticket from one to the other) and Gillingham to Gillingham, but
I can't recall a real life example.

That latter one happened to me. At first the guy thought I said
"Twickenham"!

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:33:28 GMT, Bill Hayles
wrote:

I remember meny years ago as a teenager trying to get a ticket to
Chelsfield (where I lived) and being issued with one to Chestfield,
which I'm sure occasionally gets confused with Chesterfield and so life
goes on.

"Chester 1, Chesterfield 1. Another draw there in the local derby" --
D. Lynham.

In article ,
James Farrar wrote:
I remember meny years ago as a teenager trying to get a ticket to
Chelsfield (where I lived) and being issued with one to Chestfield,
which I'm sure occasionally gets confused with Chesterfield and so life
goes on.

"Chester 1, Chesterfield 1. Another draw there in the local derby" --
D. Lynham.

It may be apochryphal, but I read of the Scottish radio presenter who had
problems with
Forfar 5 East Fife 4.

--
David Wild using RISC OS on broadband

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:04:40 +0000 (GMT),
wrote:

In article ,
James Farrar wrote:
I remember meny years ago as a teenager trying to get a ticket to
Chelsfield (where I lived) and being issued with one to Chestfield,
which I'm sure occasionally gets confused with Chesterfield and so life
goes on.

"Chester 1, Chesterfield 1. Another draw there in the local derby" --
D. Lynham.

It may be apochryphal, but I read of the Scottish radio presenter who had
problems with
Forfar 5 East Fife 4.

http://members.tripod.com/~corstorphine/questions.htm

"As far as I can trace, the only score line similar to this in matches
between East Fife and Forfar was Forfar 5 East Fife 4 in a Division
Two match on 22 April 1964."

My favourite apochryphal football score is:

Wolves 8
A cheese roll and had a cup of tea 2.

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:04:40 +0000 (GMT),
wrote:

In article ,
James Farrar wrote:
I remember meny years ago as a teenager trying to get a ticket to
Chelsfield (where I lived) and being issued with one to Chestfield,
which I'm sure occasionally gets confused with Chesterfield and so life
goes on.

"Chester 1, Chesterfield 1. Another draw there in the local derby" --
D. Lynham.

It may be apochryphal, but I read of the Scottish radio presenter who had
problems with
Forfar 5 East Fife 4.

Here is a half time sco

Manchester United 2

In message .com, Ken
wrote:

On 27 Feb, 19:22, Christopher A.Lee wrote:

And there are the AMerican tourists used to dropping "Street", "Road"
etc.

When they ask for "Baker" it's obvious, but "Oxford"? Even "Edgware"?


I once spent ages as a new booking clerk explaining to an American
lady how to change stations in London to Paddington, change again at
Swindon, and then, after several hours, you'll get to Gloucester. I
printed off her itinerary, showed her on the map, and told her the
fare was about GBP50. And then she said "That's near the Kensington
High Street, right?". "Aaagh! You want Gloucester ROAD!".

And of course when CT ran through to Liverpool (Lime St) you got,
every day, "this the Liverpool train?". "No, do you want the City of
Liverpool, or London Liverpool Street?" "Liverpool, Liverpool. I want
go Liverpool station". And so it went on.

And I had to convice a booking clerk once that I a wanted a ticket to
Beeston, rather than Leeds.

Not to mention Ely vs. Ealing, or, my favourite, a Nigerian lady plus
2 kids who asked me for a ticket (in London) to "Te'fo'd". So I sold
her SVRs to Telford and sent her off to Euston, telling her "Change at
Wolverhampton". Two hours later she came back. "I wanted a ticket to
"TEHT-ford, T-H-E-T-F-O-R-D". Oops.

Last week I resorted to pointing on a map to get over to a booking clerk at
Brusells Central that it was Braine-l'Alleud I wanted a ticket to. I wonder
how many tourists go to Waterloo looking for the battlefield, or mix it up
with another Waterloo.


Ken

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:35:48 GMT, Helen Deborah Vecht
wrote:

Bill Hayles typed


One confusion that happened on several occasions was people arriving at
Hayes (Kent) wanting Hayes (Middlesex).

I saw that when I travelled to Orpington Hospital, where I worked at the
time. Very unhappy passenger, very late for appointment...

I remember meny years ago as a teenager trying to get a ticket to
Chelsfield

so close to my old workplace...

.... where my family was told I had 48 hours to live in 1973, and where
the doctors and nurses then pulled off a miracle to prove themselves
wrong, which is why I'm still here pestering you all today (it's all
documented on my website.)


--
Bill Hayles
http://www.rossrail.com

In message , Christopher A.
Lee writes
And there are the AMerican tourists used to dropping "Street", "Road"
etc.

When they ask for "Baker" it's obvious, but "Oxford"?

See my previously quoted tale here regarding finding a charming American
couple wandering around Oxford looking for Selfridge's. They;d been
bundled on an Oxford Tube (or whatever it was in those days) coach by a
helpful passer by!

Then there's Tutankhamen (meaning the British Museum; yes, really) v
Tooting Common.
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

In message , Graeme Wall
writes
I've been sent to Farnham when the interviewee was in Fareham. Oh how we
laffed!

We had a sub-editor who was renowned for these sort of mistakes by the name
of Mark Bayliss. One good one was being sent to cover the Orient Express
visiting Weymouth. I'd actually covered the story the previous week so we
had a gentle drive down to Weymouth, a good lunch and then phoned into the
office to find where the train had got to. The girl in the newsroom looked
on her computer and came back with 'You've been Baylissed!' Apparently he
was sat behind her at the time.

Out of interest, where was the Orient Express at the time?
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

In message , Christopher A.
Lee writes
Here is a half time sco

Manchester United 2

I believe that was on a local BBC bulletin here in the Midlands in about
1975.

(Why do I always find myself posting about broadcasting matters in
transport newsgroups and transport matters in broadcasting newsgroups?)
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk