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Post #14,570
by GBert
10/22/01 12:02:25 PM
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New Trains "drive" on the left still in europe anyway
In Europe whenever there are two tracks trains pass on the left -- maybe railroad tech was heavily british at the beginning? I've not ridden trains enough in the US to know whether that also applies here.

Giovanni
Post #14,610
by jb4
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10/22/01 2:24:03 PM
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New Re: Trains "drive" on the left still in europe anyway
Which part of Europe? In Germany, where I am familiar with their system, the trains drive on the right.

Yes, GB is in Europe. But there's a lot more Europe than GB.
jb4
(Resistance is not futile...)
Post #14,665
by CRConrad
10/22/01 7:09:03 PM
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New Yathink maybe he was talking about La Bella Italia...?
BTW, I have a vague (ObBryce: I knew it! He's vague, *vague*, VAGUE!!!) memory of having read somewhere that Mussolini didn't even do all that well at what is usually claimed to be the only advantage of fascism, "at least they made the trains go on time".

(No, this doesn't have much of anything to do with anything. Where did I say it did?)

Now, Adolf, OTOH...



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   Christian R. Conrad
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Post #14,815
by GBert
10/23/01 4:42:24 PM
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New Italia it was!
I have traveled by train mostly within Italy, with occasional trips in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and England -- but I guess I'm not so observant as I would wish :-(

As far as Mussolini is concerned, I never heard any of my older relatives say he made the trains run on time -- maybe that was a UK saying?

Giovanni
Post #14,830
by CRConrad
10/23/01 6:15:40 PM
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New Naah; probably a German saying, about Adolf's bunch
Post #14,670
by kmself
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10/22/01 7:32:36 PM
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New ...and the reason...
...I mean, you've heard of Knight Train, right?

;-)
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Post #14,762
by jb4
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10/23/01 9:44:02 AM
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New Yabut...
Night Train causes you to drive on the wrong side, no matter what that side is (or sometimes..straddling the tracks!)
jb4
(Resistance is not futile...)
     Driving on the left - (bluke) - (14) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:13:16 AM EDT
         Re: Driving on the left - (jb4) - (4) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:21:27 AM EDT
             I can buy that - (Mike) - (3) - Oct. 22, 2001, 11:25:31 AM EDT
                 Additional point..... - (Mike) - Oct. 22, 2001, 11:29:31 AM EDT
                 Discrimination against lefties? - (ChrisR) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2001, 02:54:11 PM EDT
                     That's sinister of you! :) - (a6l6e6x) - Oct. 22, 2001, 09:05:38 PM EDT
         Re: Driving on the left - (addison) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2001, 11:01:16 AM EDT
             That's really illuminating. Thank you. -NT - (static) - Oct. 22, 2001, 09:47:34 PM EDT
         Trains "drive" on the left still in europe anyway - (GBert) - (6) - Oct. 22, 2001, 12:02:25 PM EDT
             Re: Trains "drive" on the left still in europe anyway - (jb4) - (5) - Oct. 22, 2001, 02:24:03 PM EDT
                 Yathink maybe he was talking about La Bella Italia...? - (CRConrad) - (2) - Oct. 22, 2001, 07:09:03 PM EDT
                     Italia it was! - (GBert) - (1) - Oct. 23, 2001, 04:42:24 PM EDT
                         Naah; probably a German saying, about Adolf's bunch -NT - (CRConrad) - Oct. 23, 2001, 06:15:40 PM EDT
                 ...and the reason... - (kmself) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2001, 07:32:36 PM EDT
                     Yabut... - (jb4) - Oct. 23, 2001, 09:44:02 AM EDT

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