Basher Speak

Word

Explanation

Ada/Ethel Old female passenger/rail worker..........
ADEX Advertised Day Excursion
Albert Gastank Old mail person.
Baglet Nice looking female.
Bail To leave train (eps. railtour) before end of run
Beano Rail Magazine
Bash Trip, journey.
Beast Good loco
Beer Move Visit to pub
Bellow To make lots of noise and perform arm waving gestures.
Bert Male passenger/rail worker
Bible All line timetable
Big Same as large
Blow up / Burst (1) To fail (esp. but not excl. mechanically); to let one down. (2) For tickets, when they go out of date (usually Rovers)
Bog the guard Hide in toilet
Bog unit DMU
Boilered Loco with steam heating boiler
Bowl (out) (1) To disappoint. (2) When a move falls apart due to crap loco/missed plus or minus
Cane I cained in some good mileage behind 40082.
Caning Cowboy A ned who spent his life just scoring engine numbers for little mileage
Can EMU
CAN'd Cancelled.
CAPE'd Cancelled en-route.
Cattle General public
CICERO A special train will run as under, advise all concerned and note
Clag (1) Thick smoke. (2) Exhaust
Cleat (1) To have all locos of a class for haulage. (2) To have 1000 miles haulage behing a particular loco
Cling-ons The kind of basher who's not sure of the best moves so follows a "main man" about.
Coffin Air Conditioned stock (also AIRCONS)
Compo Compartment
Connection UK term for US "transfer"
Crankex Excursion train for rail enthusiasts ("cranks")
CRANKEX Unadvertised Party
Desciple One of the many kids that used to follow Jed around during the school holidays as he new all the best moves (allegedly)
Desperate gripper Guard/Ticket collector who is mad on tickets/does them all the time.
Diagram Locos expected workings for the day
Diagrammed For The loco class allocated and expected on a train
Diseased Better than dreadful
DMU Diesel Multiple Unit (self-propelled railcar)
Doss Sleep
Drag Diesel haulage of electric loco and train over non-electrified lines
Dreadful Excellent
Drivers Driving wheels (the big ones in the middle :-))
Dropped Same as produced i.e. "the relief dropped a Tractor"
Dud Gen Wrong information
Dud Gen Floaters Wrong information
Effing it Travelling without paying
EH Loco fitted with Electric Train Heat, i.e. an EH duff
Farce C*ckup by BR / Railtrack / whoever
Fester As in "I festered for 7 hours at Temple Meads".
Fill-in move Productive way of using otherwise dead time
Fill-in turn Same as fill-in move (above).
Finish(ed) As above, or to wind up fellow enthusiast
Fix When someone pulled strings to get a particular loco on a train
Flail Like bellowing, only describing the arm movements
Flap To lose control in a crisis. Usually when a move breaks down.
Fodder Foodstuff
Fossil Old person
Frog / Frog shit Used ticket...re-used illegally
Frog bin Ticket bins, raided for Frog
Fudge Forged ticket, esp All-line rovers
Fudged Fabricated mileage claims
Fudger Person who lied about loco's they have had for haulage
FURNO Until Further Notice
Gen Information
Gen Sheet TOPS Enquiry/printout
G-man Guard, who "Grips" your tickets, i.e. punches holes in them.
Gricer Rail enthusiast
Gripped Hole punched in ticket
Gripper Guard or other ticket collector doing ticket check
Haulage To be hauled by a loco
Hellfire Very excellent
Hossed Caught by Guard or BTP
Insect Someone who has had less than you :-)/ Species seen at BNSt at 0600 on summer saturday morning. Also means Trainspotter
Jed Tall guy with long hair and beard, who wears a large overcoat no matter what the weather. Based at New Street but known nationally. Favourite saying "What was on the Brighton"
Juicebox Electric Multiple Unit
Kettle Steam locomotive
Large Very good loco? (as in "rather large beast")
Leap See Bail
Livery Colour scheme
Main Man Experienced Basher
Many bonuses That's good news
Men Who Know Superhuman gricers who live in IC225 sets and worship
Move One leg of a journey
Moves book Book for recording one's moves.
NB No (train heating) Boiler. NB is also used when referring to ETH locos with the ETH defunct (ie 33046 is NB).
ND Not Desperate (of guards)
Ned See insect
Neds news Rail magazine.
New line ned Basher only interested in maximum "scores", not mileages
NG Non Gripped - tickets werent collected.
Norm(al)s Non enthusiast / General public
NV Not Valid i.e. without a ticket
Main Man Experienced Basher
Minus x A negative connection, as in "I made a minus 8 at New Street for the Poole"
Obscene Very novel working
Outrageous Novel working.
Overdoss Miss connection/station because you were asleep
Overnight (1) Sleep on train (2) Set of moves done overnight (not necessarily sleeping)
Pair Two locomotives hauling a train together
PARSPEC Unadvertised Party
Peg Semaphore signal
Photpoint Photogenic aspect or location
Piece A ticket with some validity somewhere
Pilot The leading locomotive of a pair
PINED A reactionary cancellation (unlike Cape which is a planned cancellation)
Plastic Inferior or (of people) insincere; not the real thing.
Plus x Connection time for next move, as in "Theres a plus 20 off 1D55 for the Skeg-Derbys"
Prison Stock Coach with drop down windows barred over to prevent bellowing.
Produced Loco turns up on a train as in "a rat produced on the Wolves-Harwich today"
Rake I raked in the milelage on me all liner
Rate To like; to consider attractive; - rateable(adj)
Reject To decline to travel on
Require To need (esp. as in track-bashing or loco-bashing)
Right Away The signal for departure (flag, whistle or what have you)
Riot An extremely unusual occurence
Riot Coach Front coach of a railtour full of drunken bashers
Road Route signalled for train
Roadshow Group of highly desparate bashers.
SAGA Send All Grannies Away
Sarchphogus Air conditioned vehicle with noopening windows at all.
Scenario Current situation
Score Same as scratch
Scratch To fill in line in book/score loco
Scratch'N'Flash West Midlands Daytripper travelcard
Seminar Photo of bashers in front of loco (usually on a crankex)
Sheep The kind of basher who's not sure of the best moves so follows a "main man" about.
Sheeping The activity of a clingon
Shire's lynx DMU, especially plastic one
SILK Silk Arrangement (allowing a person without funds to obtain ticket when payment is made by a third party at another station).
Sight As in required for sight, a basher term for "spot"
Sparky Electric loco
Spin Going for a train on the offchance you might require it
Stagger To move slowly.
Stock Carriages
Storm To move rapidly.
TC Ned Basher (I use the term loosely) who did all his bashing in the West Midlands Travelcard area (Coventry-Nec-New St-Wolves)
The Orange Walk Railtrack workers, wearing hi-vis vests, walking about the line
Thrash A very good trip
To Flag To wave away (ie pass up on, allow to depart without you on it).
To the Head As in "Showed an East Mid, to the HEAD."
Top man Person with most mileage
Train engine The second locomotive of a pair
Tram InterCity 125 unit
Turn Same as diagram
UFN Until Further Notice
Vac Mark 1 coach with vac brakes
Video vermin The manifestation of camcorders (not a basher word)
View Watch the arrival/departure/passage of
Wagon Disliked engine
Wedged A very full train.
Wither(ed) Miss something good
Wind Winding motion of arm to indicate dislike of engine
YOBBEX Football excursion

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