UKs cloaking train

ssbn742 · Post by **ssbn742** » 07 Apr 2007 02:59

i was looking on google images, and found THIS, I want to hear your opinions

Raichase · Post by **Raichase** » 07 Apr 2007 03:43

That's caused by google images stitching different images together. It's certainly been seen before, and it is not a stealth train.

ssbn742 · Post by **ssbn742** » 07 Apr 2007 05:03

awwww man, I was hoping for something new, damn, oh well, nothing ventured nothing gained

XeryusTC · Post by **XeryusTC** » 07 Apr 2007 07:11

That one has been posted here a few times before

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Purno · Post by **Purno** » 07 Apr 2007 07:38

It sure looks cool

DeletedUser21 · Post by **DeletedUser21** » 07 Apr 2007 08:43

Heh, anyone recognizes what train it is?

Captain, Romulan Bird of Train de-cloaking. Shall I fire quantum torpedoes sir?

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 07 Apr 2007 09:17

Mr. X wrote:anyone recognizes what train it is?

A Eurostar on the approach to Waterloo station.

Edit: just realised that you were being sarcastic (I think)

Griff · Post by **Griff** » 07 Apr 2007 10:13

If it was even close to being real the Ministry of Defence would have snatched it up and used it for their own gain, not to put it into a Eurostar.

Post by **Dave** » 07 Apr 2007 10:25

Although...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Armour-train002.jpg

Class 20 beefed up for the Bond film Goldeneye.

Not quite stealth, but still feckin' awesome.

DeletedUser21 · Post by **DeletedUser21** » 07 Apr 2007 11:03

Ameecher wrote:
Mr. X wrote:anyone recognizes what train it is?
A Eurostar on the approach to Waterloo station.

Edit: just realised that you were being sarcastic (I think)

Yes, hence the ':P' icon.

And with todays cencorship of some parts of the world in googlemaps, I think that if this was a secret thing it would have been obscured. But it isn't and it hasn't been on the news either, so I would guess this is a hoax or googlemap mockup. And as stated before, it is the latter.

Martin · Post by **Martin** » 07 Apr 2007 11:15

I also seem to remember seeing two trains where they couldn't possibly be on single track sections on Google maps so it's the same kind of thing.

Oh, and I remember that Class 20 James Bond thing in Rail just before the film came out (and I saw the film too.)

Post by **orudge** » 08 Apr 2007 15:22

This image was posted on The Register, IIRC, who like doing articles on odd Google Maps images. They had a few other interesting things there.

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 08 Apr 2007 16:24

Mr. X wrote:And with todays cencorship of some parts of the world in googlemaps, I think that if this was a secret thing it would have been obscured.

And probably wouldn't be trompsing through London either.

White Rabbit · Post by **White Rabbit** » 16 Apr 2007 16:28

The photograph is real...

DeletedUser21 · Post by **DeletedUser21** » 16 Apr 2007 20:44

White Rabbit wrote:The photograph is real...

I hope you are sarcastic otherwise Misteropedia needs more sources.

This transport related article is a stub. You can help Misteropedia expanding it.

Dropzone · Post by **Dropzone** » 16 Apr 2007 23:35

The photographs are real, it just happens that the top half of the image is a different photograph to the bottom half. Like Raichase said, the train just happens to be going across the boundary where two images are stitched together. The original article is here, by the way, and there's another similar one (except with a plane, not a train) here.

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