Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
Quite an amazing story from 1915
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#2
What a lucky escape he had!
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#3
Is '4ft. Way' a technical railway term, or a colony of the secretive Kentish pygmy?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#4
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- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#5
In Italy things were not all sweetness and light...
"...by 1900, Italy was barely 30 years old as a nation."
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#6
Thanks Tom - I didn't learn that at school.
Roger
Terry Nunn
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#7
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- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#8
Thank you Terry.
Mae West never worked on the railway.
[I tried, I really did. Temptation, get thee behind me!]
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