"Do you browse through railway timetables . . .?"

[Anonymous]

My morning local free newspaper included an insert from the Dianetics organization. It has a Free Personality Test, the Oxford Capacity Analysis. Of the 200 questions, No. 3 is "Do you browse through railway timetables, directories, or dictionaries just for pleasure."

Are trainspotters a key target of their recruiting campaign?

[Anonymous]

I do it for a living, why would I want to do it for fun????

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[PBenham]

I do that quite often, thank you, and you can be assured that the your suspicion is NOT misplaced![:)] By the way, they are really trying to program you and everyone of us into[banghead][censored][censored][censored][censored][%-)][*^_^*][D)][oops][#offtopic][yeah][zzz]OK, nurse Rached, I'll go quietly.....

[Anonymous]

That is a psychological test, not a vocational one. Some people like to assimilate information just for the heck of it, others are more disciplined in their studies, others yet see no need for either approach and resist new information. But you knew who those were by the second grade.

[BigJim]

To those you you who do, do you browse passenger timetables or the much more interesting employee timetables?

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Dianetics is a front for the Church (?) of Scientology, so it would behoove you to keep your guard up.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I love flipping thru old timetables and was really p.o.'d when Amtrak got so stingy with route timetables and tried to replace them with point-to-point schedules (like an airline) in the eighties. I have also been known to look up a word in the dictionary and then spend 45 extra minutes chasing down new words, or words suggested by my original search!

And yes, Dianetics is a product of the Church of Scientology, or perhaps better said I believe it was the name of L. Ron Hubbard's book, that led to the founding of the church.

Be wary, indeed!

allen

[tree68]

Not much different, I suppose, from browsing through travel brochures, which in a way they are. I spend time in an old "Official Guide," correlating places I've been (or to which I'm going) with the RR history of the place.

Since most tests are the product of the person that wrote them, whoever put that test together undoubtedly has preconceived notions of what someone who "browses through railway timetables" is like.....

[waltersrails]

i love looking through timetables lots of history and good informantion in them for railfams like myself.

[mudchicken]

Required part of the job here.

[CShaveRR]

Actually, my favorite "timetables" were the railway listings in the Official Guides. They showed all of a railroad's lines, including those that had no passenger service. Because that book was an agent's bible, and many outside people used it for reference as well, it was kept reasonably up to date, and one got a pretty good idea, year to year (they were a monthly publication) which lines had lost passenger service, or were abandoned altogether.

Nowadays, employee timetables contain information much more to my liking, but a passenger timetable is still the most convenient for travelers.

I have a religion of choice, and do not wi***o be assimilated.

[CMSTPP]

My dad and I combined have so many timetables it's nuts. I just got the milwaukee road timetable #6 from October 28 1986 and i spent an 2 hours looking through it.
So yes I do enjoy Timetables.

James