Scratchwood Station

charlierc · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:26 pm Post subject:

*In a first class carriage at the end sit Charlie, Matt and Derek.*

Charlie: Tell the driver I'm only going as far as Carlisle, right?
Matt: Don't be picky! I just wanna get out of here as I don't wanna be a radioactive blob!
Charlie: Alright, alright. Take it easy. I just wanna get to my Newcastle base.
Matt: You could've taken a helicopter and saved us the bother!
Charlie: I don't fly domestic airlines or choppers, remember?
Matt: Oh... right.

*Charlie looks out of the window. Some people try to board but there is evidently no more that can get in so they begin running for the other platforms. An empty 4 car 158 rolls into the platform, a queue of several hundreds wanting to board it and the adjacent Intercity 225.*

Charlie: Do you know what would be nice?
Matt: What?
Charlie: A December or Christmas without this sort of crisis.
Matt: Oh yeah.
Derek: I A-GREE! HOL-I-DAYS ON EARTH SEEM TO BE A LOT MORE STRESS-FUL THAN THE BRO-CHURE IN-DI-CA-TED!
Charlie: Um... right.

*A guard whistle blows from the platform, and soon the 252 crawls out of platform 2.*
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Charles, PA Announcer and light show guy (and owner of C&X Group).

Dhall · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 4:27 am Post subject:

*Dhall hears the whistle and begins to floor the 252, pulling out of the platform and increasing speed.*

Dhall: Scotland here we come.

*Meanwhile, Louis switches on the newly installed PA*

Louis: All passengers requesting a station to stop at, come to the leading carriage before the front power car and let me know. No southern region stops please.

*The 252 speeds along, heading towards it's intended destination of Glasgow*

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Dhall.
Driver of British Rail.
Serving the line between Milton Keynes, Scratchwood and Birmingham!

charlierc · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject:

*Several feet of snow coats the platforms and tracks, with no staffmembers around to help.*

Auto-PA: Attention passengers. Due to intelorably large amounts of snow on the platforms, no trains are in operation. Thank you.

*A Class 90 locomotive and rake of MK3's sits trapped in Platform 4. Aside from that, the station is empty.*
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Charles, PA Announcer and light show guy (and owner of C&X Group).

Electricfox · Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:53 pm Post subject:

*Electricfox and Keab slip and slide down the platforms. Keabs lab coat is suitably singed and torn.*

Keab: "What's the rush?"
Electricfox: "Timelord...duplicate, every channel...maybe every human."
Keab: "Oh? Which one?"
Electricfox: "Master..."
Keab: "Eh crud..."

*Electricfox kicks open the door to the cafe.*
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Jamie
The local 'Bobby'

charlierc · Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 6:46 pm Post subject:

*A train arrives at platform 3.*

Auto-PA: Next train on Platform 3 is the 1849 Intercity Midland Mainline service to London St. Pancras. This train will be calling at London St. Pancras only. Thank you.

*The train pulls into the platform. Something however is slightly amiss... namely the fact that all the passengers and staff look like Mr. Saxon. The train is also full of the sound of demented, insane laughter from some who are amazed that the main Master's plan has worked.*

Matt *from cafe*: OH CRAP!
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Electricfox · Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 8:21 pm Post subject:

*Electricfox, Domino, Keab and Sparrow run outside in time to witness the Saxons turn back to normal people who then promptly start running and screaming as the ground shakes. A Voyager derails and falls over.*

Electricfox: "What are they running from? Aside from that Voyager thing."
Domino: *Looks up* "Um..."
Electricfox: *Looks up* "Christ...Domino, when you said Gallifrey had come back...I didn't realise you meant right on top of us!!"
Keab: "Oh...that's not good...that's so not good."
Sparrow: "Why?"
Keab: "The Time War...it was sealed for all eternity. Gallifrey was sealed away, the whole war...if it opens again, the war will spill out...onto us."

*Derek wheels out onto the platform and his eyestalk peers upwards.*

Derek: "OH....CRAP...."

*Matt, Charlie, and Dhall run out.*

Matt: "What the hell? Is it Davros again?"
Electricfox: "Oh no...it's worse...it's a lot worse. It's the Time War."
Matt: "Oh...erm...what does that mean?"
Electricfox: "It means that unless the Doctor can do something, we are very screwed. As in dead...or dying in horrible pain and suffering...or worse."
Charlie: "There's worse?"
Electricfox: "Yeah...constantly living in horrible pain and suffering and not being allowed to die."
Charlie: "Hmm, wish I hadn't asked now."

*Keab and Derek are scanning Gallifrey.*

Electricfox: "Keab...is there anything we can do?"
Keab: "Erm...hide?"
Electricfox: "Derek?"
Derek: "EMER-GAN-CY TEMP-OR-AL SHIFT?"
Electricfox: "Don't have one of those."
Derek: "THEN YOU ARE SCREWED!"

*Something on the other side of the town explodes violently.*

Electricfox: "What was that?"
Keab: "The power station! It's going critical!"
Electricfox: "AGAIN?! What the hell is this place? The Soviet Union?!!"

*Domino grabs Electricfox by the arm and drags him off, Keab follows as does Sparrow.*

Electricfox: "What are you doing?"
Domino: "We're going to save the power plant."
Electricfox: "There's no point, you idiot! We're all dead!"

*She slaps him.*

Electricfox: "OW!"
Domino: "That's for being pessimistic, now come on. We can't do anything about Gallifrey...but we can save this town!"

*She drags him into Keabs car and they take off into the town.*

Matt: "Well...what do we do?"
Derek: "SUG-GES-TION: EN-JOY OUR LAST MEAL!"
Charlie: "Hmm...might as well I guess. Make our own normality in this annual chaos."
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Jamie
The local 'Bobby'

charlierc · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 12:17 am Post subject:

*The orange ball fades out, and the explosions coming from the other end of town cease.*

Charlie: Oh... then that's over and done with, and our crisis is over?
Derek: EV-I-DENT-LY SO!
Charlie: That's a relief.
Matt: So I'm not cooking your last meal then?
Charlie: No you're cooking our first meal for a little while.
Matt: Ok.

*Fireworks begin firing their way around the Scratchwood perimeter in celebration, again deliberately planted to destroy the teleportation dampeners surronding Scratchwood.*

Charlie: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Derek: EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE ONE EARTH DAY LATE?
Charlie: Yes, even though I am one Earth day late.
Derek: WELL IT CAN DOU-BLE AS THE CE-LE-BRA-TION OF THE END OF THIS CRI-SIS!
Charlie: Indeed Derek. Indeed.

*The gang promptly retreat back into the cafe for a celebratory meal.*
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Charles, PA Announcer and light show guy (and owner of C&X Group).

Electricfox · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:18 pm Post subject:

*Keabs car slides into the car park and comes to a stop in a car parking space.*

Keab: "Not bad considering I actually braked five minutes ago..."
Electricfox: "This...is...not...a...sledge..."
Domino: "I need the toilet!!"

*She opens the back door which comes off in her hand and then runs into the station building.*

Keab: "Oi...you could have put the door back on!"

*He picks the door up and puts it back in its place and then hits it with a mallet a couple of times, he opens it again, it swings normally.*

Electricfox: "I may have visited Russia many times, but I will never, ever understand Soviet construction mentality, nor Clarkson repair mentality."
Keab: "It takes a while."

*Keab presses a button on his key, there is a 'bleep bleep' noise from the car, and a soldier from the First Bad Russian Accent brigade climbs out of the boot and stands guard next to the car.*

Electricfox: "I got to admit though...best security system I've seen in a car..."
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Jamie
The local 'Bobby'

Electricfox · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:07 pm Post subject:

*A class 47 rolls into platform one.*

Charlie: *over tannoy* "Due to the weather, this train will terminate here."
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Jamie
The local 'Bobby'

Electricfox · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:19 pm Post subject:

*A class 308 rolls in and terminates at platform four.*
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Jamie
The local 'Bobby'

Mattaf · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:36 pm Post subject:

*Matt passes an amusingly shaped Snowman on his way into the cafe.*

Matt: Morning Derek.

Derek: *Muffled* Help meeeeee!
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Mattaf, Station Master
Scratchwood - "How the Rail Network Should be... sorta..."

Electricfox · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:53 pm Post subject:

*A snowplough pushed by two Standard class five locomotives tender to tender is pushed into platform two. A group of men climb into the coach behind the second loco, Electricfox included. The driver climbs back up into the lead engine and with a whistle it heads out into the darkness.*
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Jamie
The local 'Bobby'

Mattaf · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:58 pm Post subject:

*Matt comes out of the cafe and starts throwing salt at a snow covered Derek.*

Derek: THAT ISN'T HELPING!

Matt: Well its worth a try!
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Mattaf, Station Master
Scratchwood - "How the Rail Network Should be... sorta..."

Electricfox · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:19 pm Post subject:

*The plough train reverses back into platform two, next to Derek.*

Derek: "PU-NY HU-MAN?!"
Driver: "Erm...yes?"
Derek: "COULD YOU USE THAT HOT WA-TER VA-POUR HOSE ON MY FRO-ZEN CAS-ING?!"
Driver: "Erm...sure..."

*The driver sets a high pressure steam hose on Derek, melting the snow on his casing immediately.*

Derek: "MUCH BET-TER!"

*Matt comes out of the cafe carrying a fire bucket*

Matt: "Right, I've got some sand now De-oh....what do you want?"
Driver: "There's some gangers up by Moss Junction clearing out a stuck freight...could you do bacon sarnies for about...a dozen and tea and coffee?"
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Jamie
The local 'Bobby'

Mattaf · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:36 pm Post subject:

*Balowski and co step off of the train. The snow plough train stands on the opposite platform.*

Balowski: Hello zere! We are here to help vith ze snow!

Driver: Oh... well, better get on with me then - we're clearing out a frieght north of here.

Balowski: Excellent! COMRADES!

*The entire first bad russian accent brigade tries to squeeze into the cab*

Driver: NO! In the coach, idiots!

Balowski: Oh... right! RIGHT! I see!

*Balowski smiles and motions to the others to board the coach.*

Driver: Idiot...
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Mattaf, Station Master
Scratchwood - "How the Rail Network Should be... sorta..."