Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "John Yamamoto-Wilson" Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Driving on the left Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:49:01 +0900 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <2svll8F1p8t3nU1@uni-berlin.de> References: <4165DEAE.1090107@yahoo.com> <4165DF19.3090902@yahoo.com> <1glc1zm.196irf7nyj3p2N%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> <4165F558.7020906@yahoo.com> <1glc653.b1l1ih16as2xmN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> Reply-To: "John Yamamoto-Wilson" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de r+rBSPjU7wO8w4J33IcCAgDTUBXBCRHcyh7rqCHaKsGJVFfEKj X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:19340 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 http://rarebooksinjapan.com