On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Roy Badami wrote:

On 28/09/10 10:40, Steve Fitzgerald wrote:
we could call them
direction Fred and direction John for all it matters as long as everyone
knows what we're talking about.

Or perhaps direction 'up' and direction 'down' :-)

No, clearly they should be left and right. After all, if you stand and
look at the tracks, then one is on the left, and the other on the right.
Stands to reason.

tom

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