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From: msm@syteka.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: Getting Around Overseas
Message-ID: <329@syteka.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jun-83 02:00:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 29 02:00:10 1983
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Regarding decvax!minow's comments about 3-4 minute connections between
European trains:

When I was last in Europe (1977), this was reasonable except in Italy.
Italian trains are notoriously late!  The only trains that run on time are the
TEE (Trans Europe Express) luxury trains.  I recall Italians saying that
the one good thing that Mussolini did was to make the trains run on
time (he had the train crews of late trains executed!).

In Switzerland, trains try to be exactly (to the SECOND!) on time; the train
platforms had clocks with sweep second hands.  I noticed that the
engineer usually tried to stop the train when the second hand exactly
reached 12!

					Michael S. Maiten
					Silicon Gulch, California
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