Bi-Weekly Newsletter
Welcome to the gr8est newsletter instalment. We at STR NL HQ have been busy this fortnight keeping up with the inter station sports competition!
Here at STR NL HQ, we have received special permission to reveal what sport will be competed in the inter station sports competition!
Dance will be the sport that will be competed. From modern to lyrical and the worm to the slug, creativity will flourish at the inter station sports competition!
Rehearsals are already underway and are being exclusively documented by STR NL HQ to form part of the televised showcase of the inter stations sports competition!
Statistics show that this showcase is due to hit our screens faster than our trains that currently manage to hit speeds 100 times faster than the average snail.*
Inter station sports competition!
The rehearsals have been awe inspiring. Watching groups of people from all walks of life come together to share the passion of dance and comradery, makes our shells go gooey. We are so proud of our staff and team captains. You’ve all snailed it!
One of the team captains, Brian, who definitely has a musical bone or three in his body (cervical vertebrae in my life, phalanges said she said and scapulong and winding road, if we are being precise) has curated a special playlist full of locomotivational tracks to keep the spirit of his team (and Brian) alive!
Access full playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3IovZaem1tmox6F704esNJ?si=7a195478048041f2
The playlist stretches back to the 1970s, being out of your brain (aren’t we all!) with The Who on our quarter past 5 train. Staying in the decade, Gary Numan offers an alternative method of transport for when that last STR train to London inevitably doesn’t show up. Brian’s FAVE track arrives in the form of Pulp’s 1995 hit. We all know he is more than sorted! The track from the year after, 1996, recounts Jimmy’s trip on the 5:15 STR train** Who’s Jimmy you may ask? Jimmy is out of his brain on a train going round and round and round and round. Sticking with rock and roll, the Arctic Monkeys appear to have spent rather a lot of time on public transport. They share our frustrations with the lack of a certain automotive method of public transport anywhere outside of London. Like us, they diversified into locomotion and gave us a helpful colour coding system to avoid passengers getting trapped and squished in their doors. Propelling to the modern day, the playlist introduces Technicolour Steam Train, whose funk and ska is set to cause major disruptions on all lines passing through Bank.
*Unconfirmed as no trains have yet hit the tracks.
**Fictional account. No trains.