Re: April Digest - congrats Max Michell

["Roy Hinkley" <rhinkley@hotmail.com>]

Good one Bill,
Pretty good praise really from someone who has never had an original thought
or a positive comment to make about anything. You must be fantastic to live
with!


Bill Bolton <billbolton@computer.org> wrote in message
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> "Grahame Ferguson" <grahamef@users.mcmedia.com.au> wrote:
>
> > I would like to congratulare Max Michell on his article 'Great Rail
Setbacks
> > of the Century' in this month's Railway Digest.
>
> Actually it seemed like a shallow treatment of complex topics with
> nothing other but 20/20 hindsight applied.
>
> Having lived through a number of the "events", it certainly seemed at
> the time that there adequately sound reasons to pursue the courses of
> action that were implemented.
>
> As for some of the throw away lines, like "corrupt" american practices
> etc, they are not irrelevant, but wrong in fact, indicating a paucity
> of real research.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
>
> Bill Bolton
> Sydney, Australia