GRICER
In response to queries about the British railway enthusiast term "gricer" and its origins six scans (sorry about the quality of the originals - they will enlarge up to be readable) follow, from Railway World June 1970, Railway Magazine January, March and May 1974, Branch Line News (newsletter of the Branch Line Society) 1 April 1979 and 7 February 1985: a total of six items, Gricer1 to Gricer6, respectively.
Alan A Jackson in his Railway Dictionary (fourth edition, 2006) gives the following definition: "The most fanactical and extreme type of railway enthusiast. Often used in a derogatory sense to denote the notebook-carrying railway voyeur and collector of useless information." .
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