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Old March 3rd 07, 06:19 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Bruce Fletcher Bruce Fletcher is offline
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Default Southall - Zonal fare rip-off?

MIG wrote:
On Mar 3, 6:18 pm, "chris" wrote:
The best one (possibly apocryphal) I have heard was a foreign woman at
Paddington who wanted to get to Turkey (presumably via Heathrow) but
was sold a ticket and put on the train to Torquay.

A woman with an eastern european accent once stopped me in Paddington
underground station, and asked how she could get to Sweden. I soon
discovered that she meant Swindon.




A former colleague, who was approached by a blonde lady in pub who was
from Sweden, thought that she was from Swindon.


Must have been her accent