Louise Bremner wrote:

> I Was Told that way back in the glorious years of independent
> railway companies (before British Rail was formed, and long 
> before the recent inglorious years of independent railway 
> companies), a Station Master would get sacked if a train 
> left his station even one minute late.

And he would have been lucky. In Mussolini's Italy he would have been shot!

-- 
John
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