That smell......

[Common as Mook]

.....that I smell just past Gatwick on the train every morning. It, kind of sulphury - anyone know what it is?

 

[Martinf]

Is it....is it....is it.....tarmac?

 

[Trufflehound]

Gas from the Icelandic volcano?

 

[Gwylan]

Surrey

 

[bhaexpress]

A new Palace camp site. Like their team they're being evicted.

 

[hart's shirt]

The sulphury smell is a sure sign that you're nearing the very real hell that is Croydon.

Expect to hear distant wailing and gnashing of teeth as you go past Redhill.

According to Dante's Inferno, the 9th Circle of Hell is situated somewhere around SE25.

 

[matt]

Aeroplane fuel?

 

[The Club Press Officer]

You only get it on certain days when the wind is in the correct direction. What you smell is methane escaping from the tip (just by that new housing development on the old sandpit site). If you look over, you can actually see the gas escaping from tubes they've fitted all along the most westerly fence.

 

[bhaexpress]

Aeroplane fuel?

That smells of parafin.

 

[The Grockle]

You get the same smell in Redhill. It's sort of a cross between suplhery exhaust fumes, shit and poor people.

Someone I spoke to reckoned it was pollution blowing over from the continent?

 

[Horsham Gull]

Bo?time for a bath

 

[scfcboothy]

That'd be the smell of the soap dodgers that live in the north of Stoke On Trent. Sorry about that. Amazing how far down south it travels though.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

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My arse

 

[TonyBloomsPokerFace]

The sulphury smell is a sure sign that you're nearing the very real hell that is Croydon.

Expect to hear distant wailing and gnashing of teeth as you go past Redhill.

According to Dante's Inferno, the 9th Circle of Hell is situated somewhere around SE25.

Yep, definitely Brimstone.

 

[Man of Harveys]

It's jet fuel. Hovercrafts used to run on something not totally dissimilar and which smelt not unlike it: a bit like diesel but a bit sweeter and more parafinnic.

I always thought "The Smell of Hovercrafts" would make a great album title.

 

[Barry Izbak]

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[beorhthelm]

sulphur?

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Is it like the smell you get when approaching Scunthorpe ?

 

[Storer68]

There is also a water cleansing plant right at the bottom of the runway on the other side of the railway. that's always been whiffy when the wind is from the north