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To: sodpoodle
I see they left the UK off the list.

The Virgin Pendolino tilting train, heading from London to Glasgow, derailed at 150 kilometres per hour on Friday evening (local time) in a remote area of Cumbria, scattering carriages down the side of a steep embankment. Investigators and the train company boss say an elderly woman was killed, with a total of 22 others hurt.

15 posted on 05/30/2010 5:36:25 PM PDT by OCC
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To: OCC

You know, you’d think no plane crashes ever happened, and no cars ever piled up on the freeway the way you people talk.

I find people are vastly ignorant about trains and how they operate - partly because they have indeed become rare in America, they’ve never experienced them, period.


24 posted on 05/30/2010 7:09:19 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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