metrophilia

[Tacia]

Ladies and Gentlemen:

According to the entry of the affix -phil-, "metrophilia" is "love of
the metro rail or subway systems."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phil-#Hobbies

I gather that "metrophile" means someone who loves the metro rail or
subway systems.

Does it apply to rail transport?
If not, are there by any chance words for someone who loves rail
transport and the love of the rail transport?

Sincerely,
Tacia

[musika]

In news:2458283b-7360-43e0...@k13g2000prh.googlegroups.com,
Tacia <outof...@gmail.com> typed:

Ferroequinophile seems popular for a lover of trains.

--
Ray
UK

[Irwell]

On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 11:44:56 -0700 (PDT), Tacia wrote:

> Ladies and Gentlemen:
>
> According to the entry of the affix -phil-, "metrophilia" is "love of
> the metro rail or subway systems."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phil-#Hobbies
>
> I gather that "metrophile" means someone who loves the metro rail or
> subway systems.
>
> Does it apply to rail transport

Could also mean a love of bishops.
Or large urban sprawls.

[James Hogg]

Quoth Irwell <ho...@yahoo.com>, and I quote:

Strictly and etymologically, metrophilia is "love of the uterus",
just as metropathia is a disease of the uterus.

--
James

[Jeffrey Turner]

As long as one doesn't get hysterical about it.

--Jeff

--
The comfort of the wealthy has always
depended upon an abundant supply of
the poor. --Voltaire

[the Omrud]

It is worth adding that the term "Metro-land" was invented by the
Metropolitan Railway in London early in the 20th Century.

http://www.metroland.org.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-land

Metro-land was viewed fondly by the poet John Betjeman in his TV essay
of the same name.

--
David

[Mark Brader]

"Tacia":

> According to the entry of the affix -phil-, "metrophilia" is "love of
> the metro rail or subway systems."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phil-#Hobbies

Yeah, well, you are looking at Wikipedia. *I'm* one of those people
and I've never even heard that term before. Of course, the suffixes
-phile and -philia is fairly productive, and I'm in the category that
doesn't accept "metro" as an English word in the first place.

I describe myself as a "transit fan", or specifically a "subway fan".

> If not, are there by any chance words for someone who loves rail
> transport

"Rail fan", often spelled "railfan", is the one I prefer.

In all of the above expressions, "fan" may also be replaced by words
such as "buff" or "enthusiast".

There are also specific terms for railfans with certain specific
interests, one of which is "trainspotter"; this is sometimes applied
pejoratively by non-railfans to include all railfans.

(Properly, a trainspotter is someone who likes to keep records of the
different locomotives and train cars he sees. Another word for this
is "gricer", which may also be used more broadly for other railfans.
A different type of railfan is a "track-basher", who keeps records of
which specific bits of railway track he has traveled over. In each
case, they try to collect as many different ones as possible.)

Someone else mentioned "ferroequinologist". This is a fanciful term
based on taking the old-fashioned slang term "iron horse" for a railway
locomotive and translating it into Latin. Nobody use the word seriously.

>... and the love of the rail transport?

You mean there's another way to be?
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | I still remember the first time his reality check
m...@vex.net | bounced. -- Darlene Richards

My text in this article is in the public domain.

[Garrett Wollman]

In article <msidnZfqXfJhvz7X...@vex.net>,
Mark Brader <m...@vex.net> wrote:

>(Properly, a trainspotter is someone who likes to keep records of the
>different locomotives and train cars he sees. Another word for this
>is "gricer", which may also be used more broadly for other railfans.

I used to work in an office overlooking the Grand Junction grade
crossing at Main Street in Cambridge (Mass). There were typically two
trains a day on this line, which is the only active connection between
the North Side and South Side systems east of Worcester, ferrying
North Side passenger cars back and forth to Cabot shops (and
presumably engines to Boston Engine Terminal on the North Side). My
first officemate there keeping count of the cars in each train; he
claimed he was trying to determine whether the MBTA was accumulating
rolling stock on one side or the other.

(Since we left that building, the new Brain and Cog building --
building 46 in MIT parlance -- was built *over* the Grand Junction
tracks. This must do wonders for their fMRI studies when the trains
roll through.)

-GAWollman
--
Garrett A. Wollman | What intellectual phenomenon can be older, or more oft
wol...@bimajority.org| repeated, than the story of a large research program
Opinions not shared by| that impaled itself upon a false central assumption
my employers. | accepted by all practitioners? - S.J. Gould, 1993

[R H Draney]

Mark Brader filted:

>
>"Tacia":
>> According to the entry of the affix -phil-, "metrophilia" is "love of
>> the metro rail or subway systems."
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phil-#Hobbies
>
>Yeah, well, you are looking at Wikipedia. *I'm* one of those people
>and I've never even heard that term before. Of course, the suffixes
>-phile and -philia is fairly productive, and I'm in the category that
>doesn't accept "metro" as an English word in the first place.

So what would you call a fan of Nashville's soccer team?...r

--
A pessimist sees the glass as half empty.
An optometrist asks whether you see the glass
more full like this?...or like this?

[Frank ess]

If those who count birds and make "life lists" are "birders", why
can't trainfans be "trainers", tube and subway fans "tubers" and
"subwayers", and locomotive lovers "loco-ers"? Maybe they are all a
little loco.

--
Frank ess

[Mark Brader]

Mark Brader:

>> Yeah, well, you are looking at Wikipedia. *I'm* one of those people
>> and I've never even heard that term before. Of course, the suffixes
>> -phile and -philia is fairly productive, and I'm in the category that
>> doesn't accept "metro" as an English word in the first place.

R.H. Draney:

> So what would you call a fan of Nashville's soccer team?

Interested in the wrong sport. :-)
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Common sense isn't any more common on Usenet
m...@vex.net | than it is anywhere else." --Henry Spencer

[Steve Hayes]

On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 20:34:20 -0700, "Frank ess" <fr...@fshe2fs.com> wrote:

>If those who count birds and make "life lists" are "birders", why
>can't trainfans be "trainers", tube and subway fans "tubers" and
>"subwayers", and locomotive lovers "loco-ers"? Maybe they are all a
>little loco.

I believe the Brits call them all anoraks.

Perhaps speakers of BrE could confirm this.

And speakers of AusE call them grunters or grundels something similar.

--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

[Peter Moylan]

Tacia wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen:
>
> According to the entry of the affix -phil-, "metrophilia" is "love of
> the metro rail or subway systems."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phil-#Hobbies
>
> I gather that "metrophile" means someone who loves the metro rail or
> subway systems.

Then what's the word for love of metrosexuals?

--
Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org
For an e-mail address, see my web page.

[R H Draney]

Peter Moylan filted:

>
>Tacia wrote:
>> Ladies and Gentlemen:
>>
>> According to the entry of the affix -phil-, "metrophilia" is "love of
>> the metro rail or subway systems."
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phil-#Hobbies
>>
>> I gather that "metrophile" means someone who loves the metro rail or
>> subway systems.
>
>Then what's the word for love of metrosexuals?

There's no need for one....r

[Liz]

"Peter Moylan" <pe...@pmoylan.org> wrote:
> Tacia wrote:
> > Ladies and Gentlemen:
> >
> > According to the entry of the affix -phil-, "metrophilia" is "love of
> > the metro rail or subway systems."
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phil-#Hobbies
> >
> > I gather that "metrophile" means someone who loves the metro rail or
> > subway systems.
>
> Then what's the word for love of metrosexuals?

Philohighspeeder, of course.

[Vinny Burgoo]

On Sep 6, 6:40 pm, "Liz" <l...@ithaca.nys> wrote:
> "Peter Moylan" <pe...@pmoylan.org> wrote:

> > Then what's the word for love of metrosexuals?
>
> Philohighspeeder, of course.

(Philohighspender, surely?)

Philosofty

Amorfuss

Evian

--
VB

[Amethyst Deceiver]

In article <l4e6a55dgol7rodsr...@4ax.com>,
haye...@hotmail.com says...

>
> On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 20:34:20 -0700, "Frank ess" <fr...@fshe2fs.com> wrote:
>
> >If those who count birds and make "life lists" are "birders", why
> >can't trainfans be "trainers", tube and subway fans "tubers" and
> >"subwayers", and locomotive lovers "loco-ers"? Maybe they are all a
> >little loco.
>
> I believe the Brits call them all anoraks.
>
> Perhaps speakers of BrE could confirm this.

That is certainly one term used to describe them, but it's used in a
derogatory way.

--
Linz
Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford
My accent may vary

[Roland Hutchinson]

On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:27:01 +1000, Peter Moylan wrote:

> Tacia wrote:
>> Ladies and Gentlemen:
>>
>> According to the entry of the affix -phil-, "metrophilia" is "love of
>> the metro rail or subway systems."
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phil-#Hobbies
>>
>> I gather that "metrophile" means someone who loves the metro rail or
>> subway systems.
>
> Then what's the word for love of metrosexuals?

Narcissism.

--
Roland Hutchinson

He calls himself "the Garden State's leading violist da gamba,"
... comparable to being ruler of an exceptionally small duchy.
--Newark (NJ) Star Ledger ( http://tinyurl.com/RolandIsNJ )

[Jerry Friedman]

On Sep 5, 9:34 pm, "Frank ess" <fr...@fshe2fs.com> wrote:
> Mark Brader wrote:
> > "Tacia":
...

> >> ... and the love of the rail transport?
>
> > You mean there's another way to be?
>
> If those who count birds and make "life lists" are "birders", why
> can't trainfans be "trainers", tube and subway fans "tubers" and
> "subwayers", and locomotive lovers "loco-ers"? Maybe they are all a
> little loco.

You probably all want to know what birds I saw on my trip to Carlsbad
yesterday and the day before. To start with the highlights, I got my
life Upland [REDACTED]

--
Jerry Friedman

[marvinn...@gmail.com]

LOL! "metrophilia" is "love for poetry"

[Don Phillipson]

<marvinn...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:5e540511-b510-4c2c...@googlegroups.com...

>> . . . are there by any chance words for someone who loves rail
>> transport . . .?

1. Railway (or railroad) enthusiast.
2. Trainspotter (which originated in England for
children who collect RR engine numbers.)
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:58:05 -0500, "Don Phillipson"
<e9...@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote:

><marvinn...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:5e540511-b510-4c2c...@googlegroups.com...
>
>>> . . . are there by any chance words for someone who loves rail
>>> transport . . .?
>
>1. Railway (or railroad) enthusiast.
>2. Trainspotter (which originated in England for
>children who collect RR engine numbers.)

The original question was psoted in 2009. The questioner might have
moved on.

The question contains an ambiguity:

"someone who loves rail transport"

could mean someone who likes travelling by rail simply as a means of
transport. I can't think of a word with that meaning.

Other words for the sense "Railway (or railroad) enthusiast or
Trainspotter" are "railfan, rail buff or train buff (American English)
or railway buff (Australian/British English)".

From:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railfan

This article (dated 2001) in a US publication says:
http://www.thecrier.net/article_ec47c91a-9d97-5128-a4a6-68048f0bf568.html

I’ve become a train-lover (railophile, trainiac, choo choo booster)
after several recent rolling-without-the-rocking train trips in
Europe.

--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)

[snide...@gmail.com]

I'm torn between posting my reply here and to Mark's older post.
For convenience, I will extend this branch.

Some time ago (long before Mark's post, even ... if you could believe in such an era)
I made a trip on an Amtrak route of particular interest to me.
My then-wife went to purchase the tickets at the station,
and was asked, "Oh, he's a foamer, is he?"

/dps "flecks flowing gently in the breeze"

[Oliver Cromm]

* marvinn...@gmail.com:

I guess a metrosexual is one who makes love to music, then.

--
There are other choices than the Bolero!

[Mark Brader]

I may as well repeat what I said in this thread in 2009, for those who
can't conveniently read back that far:

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"Tacia":

> According to the entry of the affix -phil-, "metrophilia" is "love of
> the metro rail or subway systems."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phil-#Hobbies

Yeah, well, you are looking at Wikipedia. *I'm* one of those people
and I've never even heard that term before. Of course, the suffixes
-phile and -philia is fairly productive, and I'm in the category that
doesn't accept "metro" as an English word in the first place.

I describe myself as a "transit fan", or specifically a "subway fan".

> If not, are there by any chance words for someone who loves rail
> transport

"Rail fan", often spelled "railfan", is the one I prefer.

In all of the above expressions, "fan" may also be replaced by words
such as "buff" or "enthusiast".

There are also specific terms for railfans with certain specific
interests, one of which is "trainspotter"; this is sometimes applied
pejoratively by non-railfans to include all railfans.

(Properly, a trainspotter is someone who likes to keep records of the
different locomotives and train cars he sees. Another word for this
is "gricer", which may also be used more broadly for other railfans.
A different type of railfan is a "track-basher", who keeps records of
which specific bits of railway track he has traveled over. In each
case, they try to collect as many different ones as possible.)

Someone else mentioned "ferroequinologist". This is a fanciful term
based on taking the old-fashioned slang term "iron horse" for a railway
locomotive and translating it into Latin. Nobody use the word seriously.

>... and the love of the rail transport?

You mean there's another way to be?

[an...@sapo.pt]

More like love of measurements... "Metro" is greek for measurement...

[Athel Cornish-Bowden]

On 2016-02-10 12:44:51 +0000, an...@sapo.pt said:

> More like love of measurements... "Metro" is greek for measurement...

That may be the etymology, but it's irrelevant to modern uses of
"metro", either as a complete word or as a prefix. Lisbon (in common
with numerous other cities) calls its underground railway the Metro: is
it only used for measuring things?


--
athel

[Jerry Friedman]

And that word is from "metropolis", which means the mother city of
colonies, so I suppose metrophilia is love for one's mother, but not,
I hope, like no other.

--
Jerry Friedman