Re: what was the stuff up on city rail today 04.02.00

["chris@enet21.com.au" <chris@enet21.com.au>]

sorry, I though you were ant-german and japanese.

Chris

"chris@enet21.com.au" wrote:

> have you ever  travelled on a  japanese railway? then you will know what I mean
>
> Regards
>
> Chris
>
> neumannc wrote:
>
> > chris@enet21.com.au wrote:
> > >
> > > Who is responsible for track these days?. I hate to think what will happen
> > > during the Olympics. Then we will realise that we  have nearly a 3rd world
> > > class system. The govt. should sack senior management and get the Japanese or
> > > Germans to manage it.
> > >
> > >
> > But they don't speak english! (Even though we all know a significant
> > number of Japanese and Germans do).  What would they know about running
> > a railway, after all they have never worked for British Railways and
> > that is where we get our independent experts from when we have a signal
> > problem or safety question to be glossed over.
> >
> > Besides look how good British rail is now that the Thatcher reforms are
> > becoming effective and compare the super efficient British high speed
> > rail (180 kph) with Japan and Germany (300+ kph).
> >
> > Chris