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Re: What happened?

Subject: Re: What happened?
From: Barry Campbell <barryC@qimr.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 12:10:58 +1000
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Qld Institute of Medical Research
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Ron BEST wrote:
> 
<snip>

> (BTW, anyone remember the article in RD describing the proposed
> "safeworking" for this system? It was said that the system would be OTS&T,
> but, because the trains all run the same way, all trains would run "on the
> ticket" and the staffs would never leave the stations! Very funny, I thought
> at the time.)

It was a very clever article and was written to be almost believable
until they got to the bit where under certain conditions the pilotman's
biro would be confiscated for safety reasons. 

Barry Campbell

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