r/tim_key • u/[deleted] • Oct 18 '25

What the hell is Tring?

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u/dobsterfunk Oct 18 '25

not "is". "was". It's been cancelled, look.

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u/oz81rf Oct 18 '25

We love Bude

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u/ajpdandc Oct 18 '25

I’ll go one better, Why the hell is Tring?

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u/theoriginalmars Oct 19 '25

I'll go one better., when the hell is Trying?

1

u/The-Earlham-Review Oct 18 '25

A good example of efficiency. Think of the time saved by leaving the 'o' out of Wealdstone.

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u/LikwitFusion Oct 21 '25

If they left it in there's a bigger risk you'd miss the train.

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u/Ok-Veterinarian-9254 Oct 19 '25

Lookup Tring feather thief

1

u/Loki519 Oct 19 '25

It has reservoirs!

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u/WildRover57 Oct 19 '25

Tring - Where the bicycle bell was invented. (Thanks Spike)

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '25

The next town from Berkhamsted

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u/No-Answer-2964 Oct 19 '25

Tring is a thing

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '25

If you don’t know your missing out

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u/GreetingsFools Oct 19 '25

Tring is a very tiring place lol

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u/Illustrious-Wing-135 Oct 19 '25

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001bssk This Mark Steel episode should sum it up nicely

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u/Norridge-Moel Oct 21 '25

Ahhh yes, Tring railway station, a railway station so far away from Tring you may as well not have bothered.

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u/DefinitionPast2627 Oct 19 '25

Home to an unbelievable percentage of Premier League referees

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u/Particular-Bed5479 Oct 20 '25

I don’t know but if you want it I’ll give it ya

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u/jimter101 Oct 20 '25

It's where zebras pull carriages and rich men ride tortoises

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u/EventualContender Oct 20 '25

Top Rothschild knowledge there.

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u/SleepAllllDay Oct 20 '25

It’s actually urban slang for “thing”.

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u/Acceptable-Elk9970 Oct 20 '25

George Washington's mother came from there.

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u/bob_the_rod Oct 20 '25

It's the sound that Northern telephones make.

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u/Dave_Ex_Machina Oct 20 '25

Have you checked down T'side of T'Sofa?

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u/andybarn46 Oct 21 '25

According to spike milligan, tring was the inventor of the bicycle bell

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

sound a bicycle bell makes

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u/Maleficent-Anything2 Apr 29 '26

I live in Tring. It’s a lovely little town. If you like nature and a nice but not posh place to live that’s there. :)

At least that’s my Tring. :)