Thread: Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could it happen here...??
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Old January 2nd 12, 06:14 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.rail.europe
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Default Complete (almost) Shutdown of Berlin Train System - could ithappen here...??
On 02/01/12 13:40, wrote:
But the train drivers themselves were East German, as I understood. DR
also made sure that the drivers had families in the east, just in case
they started thinking staying in the west.

Surely the superior employment conditions were more than enough to keep
them in the east without all this business of family hostages,
minefields, machine guns and so on?

Ian
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