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Old August 8th 03, 11:39 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Stuart Meech Stuart Meech is offline
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Default Southampton to Waterloo in just 9 hours...

"Acrosticus" wrote in message
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From: Phil Richards
Date: 08/08/2003 21:26 GMT Daylight Time


http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/6139305

Yeah, great isn't it! Average speed about 8.1 mph when "Notwork Rail" have

only
slapped a 60 mph restriction arbitrarily over the whole system.

Can we have BR back please? We might have maligned them quite a bit, but

it now
looks like they knew how to run a railway.


Er someone did die you know, not really the fault of anyone....

Stu