From:  tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk>
Date:  09 Nov 2006 02:06:36 Hong Kong Time
Newsgroup:  news.alt119.net/scot.general
Subject:  

Re: Riding trains in UK

NNTP-Posting-Host:  null

>>   Why an earth you
>>want to come to UK to travel by train is beyond me.
>Because we have some very, very scenic and interesting lines [1] and a 
>really, really major place in the history of railway?


Yep!, must do the Settle and Carlisle:))

>
>Our railway system is far from perfect but it is by no means the 
>disaster area it is sometimes made out to be.   I don't know what sort 
>of train I rode on earlier today on a local service from Birmingham New 
>Street to Sandwell & Dudley (it was going on to Liverpool Lime Street) 
>but it was as comfortable, clean, punctual and "did what it said on the 
>box" as any I've ever ridden on.
>
>
>[1]   And I say that having been lucky enough or ride on the "Rheingold" 
>and the "Rocky Mountaineer" at various times in my life.

-- 
Tony Sayer