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Re: Edinburgh airport rail link and Waverley station rebuilding

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From: Blimpie
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:35
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"Clive D. W. Feather" <clive@on-the-train.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2HF64ZkhLTw$EwSJ@romana.davros.org...
> In article <6hd6bl.9p76-fsf@news2.kororaa.com>, August West
> <august@kororaa.co.uk> writes
> >Being a simple regular user of the Stansted to Cambridge line, and not
> >a rail geek, any station that has service from trains running from
> >London to Liverpool looks like a mainline station to me.
>
> No London to Liverpool trains call at Stansted.
>
> Stansted is at the end of a branch line. Anyone who used it regularly
> should be able to notice this.
>
> >Such hair-splitting distinctions are, I feel, best left to the train
> >anoraks [note the crosspostings].
>
> You mean like the hair-splitting distinction between Glasgow and its
> suburb of Edinburgh?


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From: "Blimpie" <blimpie@btopenworld.com>
Newsgroups: uk.railway,ed.general,alt.airports.uk.edinburgh
Subject: Re: Edinburgh airport rail link and Waverley station rebuilding
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:35:05 +0000 (UTC)
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