Thread: The Ermine strikes back - The Crossrail Saga
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Old December 15th 07, 08:09 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default The Ermine strikes back - The Crossrail Saga
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(Andrew Robert Breen) wrote:

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Jane Sullivan wrote:
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lonelytraveller writes

Why? Should all new trains be built to look like the Rocket?

That would be nice.

No it wouldn't. The Rocket was a locomotive, so it couldn't carry many
passengers if any, and it could be very unpleasant travelling on it at
this time of year.

Fanny Kemble seems to have managed OK..


Mind you that was September.

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