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Default Strange sight in Thurrock - PRT?

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Ian Jelf wrote:
And County Durham. The latter has a railway (well, tramway) connection
in that it was the headquarters of the Sunderland District Tramways
Company. I'm told that, when the tramway opened, there were no staff
uniforms as they'd inadvertently been sent to....... :-)


But that was Philadelphia - the HQ of the Sunderland District Tramways
Company.

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In article ,
Ian Jelf wrote:
And County Durham. The latter has a railway (well, tramway) connection
in that it was the headquarters of the Sunderland District Tramways
Company. I'm told that, when the tramway opened, there were no staff
uniforms as they'd inadvertently been sent to....... :-)


But that was Philadelphia - the HQ of the Sunderland District Tramways
Company.

B****r! You know I had a nagging g doubt about that when I wrote it
last night and couldn't be bothered to check! Sorry!

(The story about the uniforms is true though; well, it appears in
Dennis Gill's book "On The trams"!)
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