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Old January 9th 12, 05:23 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 09/01/2012 09:09, MatSav wrote:
"Arthur wrote in message
o.uk...
On 08/01/2012 22:48, Alistair Gunn wrote:
In uk.railway Arthur Figgis twisted the electrons to say:
There is tight security on the bits of Spain physically
situated in
Africa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla_border_fence

Ah, yes ... The wonderfully inconsistent part of Spanish
policy! It's
only wrong for a country to have an exclave within another
country if the
second country is Spain?


And there is also a little bit of Spain entirely within France.


Not Spain / France, but here's a very strange border situation:
http://enclaves.webs.com/westerneurope.htm


Passing through Switzerland last month, my friend refused to divert to
tick-off Büsingen.

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK