An unofficial website supporting the West Somerset Railway. Click here to return to the home page...
   An unofficial West Somerset Railway web site   
WSR Caption Corner - May 2007
Caption Corner Picture
Please post your Caption - or candidate images for future Caption Corners to the WSR Yahoo group or email us.
Apologies to WSRA Journal for the title of this page and the similar idea to the regular Journal feature.
Thanks to Jon Tooke for suggesting a Caption Corner for this web site.
Have a look at the previous Caption Corners...
 • Your captions...
from Nick Jones
·  "We know you joined the Home Guard to serve your country, but someone should have told you the war's been over for more than 60 years. It was unkind of them to leave you in the undergrowth, guarding the Barnstaple line all that time."
from Chris Osment
·  I'm telling you - this was Mr Brunel's prototype signal, it's just lost the disc and crossbar, but I can still turn it round......
·  I don't care who's gang you're in, you're not coming this way without a platform ticket.....
·  I told Capt Mainwaring "they don't like it up 'em sir".....
·  Now be a good chap and get me a LARGE slice of toast from that fire.....
·  Ever since my hi-viz shrunk so much, I can't get my arm to go down any more so I rest it on this handle......
from BurnleyFreddie
·  Who's nicked my lollipop?
from Ron Williams
·  "Aaaaaarrrrrrgh! 'tis an original Brunel tunin' vork fur tunin' steam injins wiv!"
·  "Oh lookee yere -- a mark one zider aaaple pickin' stik!"
·  " I say old bean! I'm simply NOT going to shovel ballast with this!"
from John Wood
·  Now look, "its us 3 versus them lot, so, you rush em with your pitch fork and blood curdling Zulu war cry and while they stand dumbstruck in amazement we'll nick their sarnies and hide in that there bush".
·  Rolf Harris lookalike trys to convince 2 stragglers that its an original 'Diddgery do' whilst the rest of the party have made a quick dash for safety.
from Steve Richardson
·  "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!!! "...
... "Who do you think you are, Gandalf or something?"
from Chris Osment (second contribution!)
·  ...and this one is tuned to B Flat......
·  Now tell me, how many fingers am I holding up? (WSR PW undergo new eyesight tests for PTS certificates)
·  You need a large fork, we roast BIG jacket potatoes......
from Jon Tooke
·  Fork Off!
from Malcolm Anderson
·  Original Barnstable branch signalman M S ! with vintage token exchanger apparatus just uncovered from the undergrowth !
This page is not from the official West Somerset Railway website   
© Stephen Edge