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[Get Real!]

Press on with the monorail… then the Nicosia hoodlums (us ) can gaycrash Grumpy’s house in half an hour!

[cyprusgrump]

Press on with the monorail… then the Nicosia hoodlums (us ) can gaycrash Grumpy’s house in half an hour!

And I won't have to get a lift from Kafenes when we come to Nicosia...

[Get Real!]

Press on with the monorail… then the Nicosia hoodlums (us ) can gaycrash Grumpy’s house in half an hour!

And I won't have to get a lift from Kafenes when we come to Nicosia...

I can almost see it now… 3-4 heads hanging out the monorail’s windows at the Pissouri station with beers howling “Grumpy… you wanker!” and then…

Mrs Grumps: “Who the hell are they?”

Grumps: “Never seen them before in my life!” [Runs]

[cyprusgrump]

Press on with the monorail… then the Nicosia hoodlums (us ) can gaycrash Grumpy’s house in half an hour!

And I won't have to get a lift from Kafenes when we come to Nicosia...

I can almost see it now… 3-4 heads hanging out the monorail’s windows at the Pissouri station with beers howling “Grumpy… you wanker!” and then…

Mrs Grumps: “Who the hell are they?”

Grumps: “Never seen them before in my life!” [Runs]

[EricSeans]

"We do not want any of your remnants of Colonial Rule in Pafos, so we are pleased to be excluded from the network Smile."

But at least they made sure the trains ran on time.

I think you will find it was the fascist dictator Mussolini that got the trains to run on time.

Bet he was pissed off at the one that never showed up for him on April 28, 1945.

[cyprusgrump]

"We do not want any of your remnants of Colonial Rule in Pafos, so we are pleased to be excluded from the network Smile."

But at least they made sure the trains ran on time.

I think you will find it was the fascist dictator Mussolini that got the trains to run on time.

Bet he was pissed off at the one that never showed up for him on April 28, 1945.

Yes, they kept him hanging about...

[EricSeans]

Trains still ran upto 1974 ,for mining..

Correct. And a good few of the yellow painted locomotives were still lying around near Xeros up until recent years, when Turkey finally removed them. I have pics of me standing on the footplates.

[EricSeans]

I watched a documentary some time ago about buses that could run on an alternative form of fuel that was much more economical and greener and from what I remember it was not too difficult or expensive to install. Buses can use the whole road network and can pick people from several locations within the cities. To use the train you would have to go to the train station. And then when you arrive at the other train station you will again need some other form of transportation to go where you want to go. No Cypriot would bother to change 3 means of transportation just to go from Limassol to Nicosia. The only way that some Cypriots will use public transportation is if they can take a bus from somewhere near their home and then arrive somewhere near the place they want to go without the need to change bus more than once.

Here in Kilmarnock, Scotland, some buses are running on biofuel, namely recycled cooking oil. Maybe these are the ones you heard about. Coincidentally, this town built and exported at least one locomotive for the Cyprus Government Railway (and also send hundreds overseas to the rest of the old Empire, along with Johnnie Walker Whisky).

[EricSeans]

This cost £400,000!

I know what you mean. I did some work for a while at a factory in Turkey owned by a large multinational. They got the consultancy then known as Arthur Anderson to come in and do a study so that they could reorganise the factory. These people spend two years doing their study for a cost of two million US dollars. In the end, they recommended combining two departments and moving one particular task from a third department to this new department. That was it. Anybody with an ounce of common sense could have made that same recommendation for free!

Everyone used to brick it at the gas board when the time and motion boys came around. We don't hear enough of time and motion these days, I'm thinking.

[Oracle]

Press on with the monorail… then the Nicosia hoodlums (us ) can gaycrash Grumpy’s house in half an hour!

Is there something you guys aren't telling us about?