h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I hate to have to point this out, but the author's name has been spelt incorrectly throughout these three linked entries - it's 'Awdry', not 'Awdrey'...

.... OMG your right!!!

how the heck did I miss that all the way through... a definite case of a rush of something to the brain there... I'll see if I can get someone to change it...



AAAAAASSSSHHHHLLLEEEEYYYYY HHEEEEELLLLLPPPPP!!!!!

Just fixed it across all three entries.

es all round, methinks...

Jimster

Thanks Jim -

- should we blame the author or the sub-editor for that one

These things happen!

Collective responsibility... spread the blame...


J

Surely it is somewhat unfair to call Ringo an ex-drummer for the Beatles, after all he was the drummer of the Beatles.

PS. Where has Stephen the Unreliable Engine gone? After all that spinning on the turntable I think he might have hit the buffers!

Who was Stephen? i mean I can name any locos given the number, except ones without numbers, such as Emma the Intercity 125, but have never heard of Stephen the Unreliable Engine.

Martin here, I actually have an H2G2 space http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/U194261 which mentions this subject but fouled the login somehow. Anyway, James is completely correct , no such engine, but hey, I thought the man was just joshin' . For those who care about it they are catalogued on my website now in excruciating detail at www.geocities.com/martinclutt/awdry/ . Seeing as geocities has bandwidth restrictions, and my site is totally uncommercial, I'd have no objection to the researchers on these three excellent entries to use this resource for total "hitchiker's guide" LUE coverage. Pity you can't post pictures . Otherwise I can point visitors in this direction and forget about it.

Sincerely,
The Paranoid Android

How soon Transport Secretaries get forgotten. Stephen Byers was the chap.

**Groan**

Thanks for the awful jokes