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French rail company orders 2,000 trains too wide for platforms
Reuters ^
| 5-20-14
| Gerard Bon and Elizabeth Pineau,
Posted on 05/20/2014 6:44:29 PM PDT by dynachrome
France's national rail company SNCF said on Tuesday it had ordered 2,000 trains for an expanded regional network that are too wide for many station platforms, entailing costly repairs.
A spokesman for the RFF national rail operator confirmed the error, first reported by satirical weekly Canard Enchaine in its Wednesday edition.
"We discovered the problem a bit late, we recognise that and we accept responsibility on that score," Christophe Piednoel told France Info radio.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; highspeedrail; highspeedtrains; oops; trains
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oops.
To: dynachrome
Just raise taxes-problem solved.
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posted on
05/20/2014 6:45:56 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: dynachrome
I blame the metric system.
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posted on
05/20/2014 6:46:55 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Fegelein! Fegelein! Fegelein!)
To: dynachrome
Made by the same company that made the rifles during WW2?
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posted on
05/20/2014 6:48:40 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: dynachrome
we recognise that and we accept responsibility on that score," Christophe Piednoel told France Info radio. And we get to keep our jobs and you get to pay for the repairs!
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posted on
05/20/2014 6:49:44 PM PDT
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat Lead.)
To: Fungi
They have a pretty good rail system. Its only about a trillion dollars in debt.
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posted on
05/20/2014 6:50:50 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: dynachrome
Well Folks... We WIll Be Coming To The Aid of our Friends those French People"...B.o. May 21....2014
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posted on
05/20/2014 6:51:36 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: GeronL
Willie Green Memorial Ping.
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posted on
05/20/2014 6:54:50 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
05/20/2014 6:57:41 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: dynachrome
A single tear rolls down my cheek for the poor Frogs.
To: dynachrome
Didn’t they do something similar with an aircraft carrier? I think the length was too short for the planes to land on or take off from.
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posted on
05/20/2014 7:02:04 PM PDT
by
BlessedBeGod
(Democrats are Cruz'n for a Bruisin' in 2016.)
To: dynachrome
Hey, cut the French some slack. They are pre-occupied with their summer vacations. And the Tour de France starts in a few weeks.
To: dynachrome
Simply mount shoe horns on trains! LOL!
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posted on
05/20/2014 7:04:36 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: dynachrome
I wonder if they bought the trains from Bombardier. That used to be a cluster right there.
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posted on
05/20/2014 7:08:22 PM PDT
by
meatloaf
(Impeach Obama. That's my New Year's resolution.)
To: dynachrome
Oops! What do you mean ‘Oops’? - Independence Day
Ah, the French. You’ve got to love them. They try so hard to be normal but in the end, they remain “French”.
To: dynachrome
Heh, not so sure that they are as bad as we are with government contracts but they are trying...
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posted on
05/20/2014 7:12:27 PM PDT
by
Deagle
(ues)
To: Fungi
Probably, But then again the rifle only had survive being
dropped one time.
The Germans designed their Tiger Tanks just wide enough to pass on French roads. They sent engineers all over France prior to WWII to measure the county roads along possible attack routes.
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posted on
05/20/2014 7:20:52 PM PDT
by
TaMoDee
(Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2014!)
To: dynachrome
Well, as they say, in hell the English are the cooks, the French are the engineers, and the Germans staff the police force.
To: proxy_user
Well, as they say, in hell the English are the cooks, the French are the engineers, and the Germans staff the police force.And the whole thing is run by Italians.
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posted on
05/20/2014 7:27:13 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dynachrome
So, how big is the error?
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posted on
05/20/2014 7:27:35 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
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