Fell off a train...

• Guest 651

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  1 February 2012     21:32150938
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  Quite an amazing story from 1915
  
  

  
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 657

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  1 February 2012     22:16150958
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  What a lucky escape he had!
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• Guest 710

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  1 February 2012     23:06150966
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  Is '4ft. Way' a technical railway term, or a colony of the secretive Kentish pygmy?
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  1 February 2012     23:17150967
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  i notice it is an italian thing again, is there any connection with the ice cream seller on one of kath's reports?
• Guest 710

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  1 February 2012     23:36150970
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  In Italy things were not all sweetness and light...
  
  "...by 1900, Italy was barely 30 years old as a nation."
  
  
  http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/italy_in_1900.htm
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 653

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  2 February 2012     07:34150983
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  Thanks Tom - I didn't learn that at school.
  
  
  
  Roger
• Terry Nunn

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  2 February 2012     08:20150989
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  In railway parlance the "4 foot" is between the rails and the "6 foot" is the space between the two (or more) tracks.
  
  Railwaymen never bothered with the odd 8½"!
  
  Terry
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• Guest 710

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  2 February 2012     10:44151008
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  Thank you Terry.
  
  Mae West never worked on the railway.
  
  [I tried, I really did. Temptation, get thee behind me!]
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.