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On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:58:52 +1200, 
cr <cr@orcon.net.nz> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 200308310703.h7V72uxj010926@dbmail-mx2.orcon.co.nz>:

> On Sunday 31 August 2003 14:04, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> 
> > > The London Underground was originally designed to allow through
> > > running from the mainline railways to stations more convenient for
> > > central London than the mainline termini, which were very much on
> > > the outskirts of the London of the time. There are several
> > > connections between the two systems, and the "suburbs" end of
> > > several Underground routes is reached over main line track, so
> > > Underground drivers on such routes have to know two sets of
> > > operating rules, Underground rules and national rules.
> >
> > ..this sounds like a _very_ good time to pour a shipload of concrete
> > onto those wintendo-style dual rule tracks, to replace the nice hard
> > rock that _should_ have separated those two track systems.
> 
> Now that's nonsense.   The operating rules are basically the same for
> both systems, there's no major difference.    And the trains are no
> more different than, say, an express passenger and a slow goods, which
> have always shared the tracks with a good degree of safety for 175
> years.    
> 
> It also makes all sorts of sense to extend Underground services on to 
> less-busy mainline branches where the traffic patterns justify it.

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 04:35:55 -0700, 
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 20030831113555.GI8074@ursine.ca>:

> Why?  Passenger and freight peacefully coexist on tracks worldwide.

...as does airliners and high rises.  You both ignore how 
war criminals and terrorists work; they _break_ the rules.  

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.



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