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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 10/7/2012: Brunel's railroad
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:24:08 +0200
References: <06B08B64-5E18-4137-B2E5-A06CF5A4F4B9@frozenlight.eu> <C8DCD704ED794864A87DEF6E090535EC@jimnichols>

I would think so. Sweden went over to right-hand traffic on the roads
back in the 60's, but they didn't change the train tracks. Trains
still have left-hand traffic in Sweden.

Daniel

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
wrote:
> Nice one!  Do they drive on the left track?
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at 
> frozenlight.eu>
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> Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 10/7/2012: Brunel's railroad
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>
>> We are spending the last day of our UK trip at our son's place in Bath
>> before all four of us fly back to Alicante tonight. I woke up early and 
>> went
>> for a walk in my son's not very interesting neighbourhood. And yet, I took
>> my picture of the day during this walk--one of Britain's and hence the
>> world's oldest rail lines, connecting Bath with Bristol and built by
>> Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1839-1840. By coincidence, I am reading a book
>> about the arrival of the railroad in Bath in 1840 and the impact it had on
>> the local economy and society. Fascinating piece of social history.
>>
>>
>> <http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=1956365831&k=TNkwJQg&lb=1&s=XL>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> (sent from somewhere)
>>
>>
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