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Old May 8th 09, 07:14 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default Sense seen on Crossrail at last?

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09:22:57 on Fri, 8 May 2009, 1506
remarked:
IMHO It is very likely that I Kingdom Brunel would welcome
electrification. He seemed very keen to find a better, cleaner form
of motive power.


And you might expect the residents of Maidenhead would welcome the
opportunity to export the pollution [1] to wherever the electricity is
generated. But they don't seem to like the visual impact of the
knitting.

[1] Which can also be visual, as well as chemical.
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Roland Perry