3. Traincare ’90 (Part 2)

Part 2 of the video moves onto DMU cleaning out in the proles. Handy tips such as ’clean the drivers window - he needs to see out’ are given, before an active example of chewing gum removal (freeze it with an unspecified aerosol and then smash it to pieces with a carriage key). We then move on to a turn-round clean of a bubble car at Pad, with another handy tip; put collected rubbish in a bag, don’t throw it on the track. The final segement starts with shove duff 47 576 ’Kings Lynn’ arriving on the down at Oxford, catching out a suitably embarrased spoon goon in the leading doorway. Future England fast bowler Stuart Broad then boards the train to undertake a pick of less than convincingly placed litter from amongst the upgraded APT type seats. The final noteworthy seen is a good bit of ’Kings Lynn’ clagging well as it departs Oxford again on the up. All in all, a moderately interesting insight into an overlooked part of railway life, an
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