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Old April 21st 11, 09:47 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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Default What does it take to be a Transport Correspondent?

On 21/04/2011 09:33, Graeme Wall wrote:

Pedantically they have motors, not engines. The latter being those nasty
infernal combustion thingies. Motors run on nice clean electrickery.


Doubly pedantically, a motor *is* an engine (an engine isn't always
a motor, though, cf siege engine, difference engine, database engine...)

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