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Default Up/down/northbound/westbound?

On 28 Sep, 09:48, Pat Ricroft wrote:
On 28 Sep, 08:22, Frank Erskine wrote:

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:12:19 -0700 (PDT), "


I make it a practice to always take an "up" train from Berwick-upon-
Tweed


To where?


To the nearest capital city.
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That would be a Down train then.
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Railsigns.co.uk wrote:

On 28 Sep, 09:48, Pat Ricroft wrote:
On 28 Sep, 08:22, Frank Erskine wrote:

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:12:19 -0700 (PDT), "


I make it a practice to always take an "up" train from Berwick-upon-
Tweed


To where?


To the nearest capital city.
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That would be a Down train then.


"Doon", shurely?
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 02:06:44AM -0700, Railsigns.co.uk wrote:
On 28 Sep, 09:48, Pat Ricroft wrote:
On 28 Sep, 08:22, Frank Erskine wrote:
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:12:19 -0700 (PDT), "
I make it a practice to always take an "up" train from Berwick-upon-
Tweed
To where?

To the nearest capital city.

That would be a Down train then.


No, it would be Up. Normal people go Up from Brighton to London, and
Down from York to London. When the journey is clearly north/south, Up
is northbound, and Down is southbound.

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