Re: [NSW] Today's signal failure?

["Skippy" <fowler9@skippy9spammeifyoudare.fsnet.co.uk>]

If we must get technical ' means hours or feet & " means minutes or inches
dpending on what you are looking at or what you are doing.

I thought they cancelled trains that would b close to 12 HOURS late (12')

Skippy


"Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Greg <cannabis@medicine.man> wrote in message
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> > "Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> > wEf76.454$Ea4.19899@ozemail.com.au">news:wEf76.454$Ea4.19899@ozemail.com.au...
> > > It was announced at Penrith this afternoon at 1730 that some down
trains
> > were
> > > late due to a signal failure but no details were given.  The 1718
> > Springwood
> > > service was 12' late and the 1731 Mt Vic was 14' late.  Suburban
services
> > > seemed even later.
> > >
> > > Any details on what the problem was?
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > 12 and 14 foot late?
> > HAHAHAHHA
>
> A revelation!  Does that mean my CMA topographic maps now give longitude
and
> latitude in degrees, feet and inches, and metric measures really weren't
> intruduced in '73 (damn there it is again)?
>
> By the way is it an apostrophe or an inverted comma - or does it just
happen
> to have more than one name and more than one use?
>
> Chris
>
>