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to: ALEC CAMERON
from: GREGORY PROCTER
date: 1997-07-08 21:53:00
subject: Re: Rock Island

 -=> Quoting Alec Cameron to Andrew Hamblyn <=-
 AC> Hi Andrew
 AC> On (04 Jul 97) Andrew Hamblyn wrote to All...
 AH> Just wondering if anyone can tell me a little about the Rock Island???
 AC> A great hit song of the 1950s. The Rock Island Line.
 AC> In the 1940s, they were running 10 car double decker commuter trains.
 AC> Someone in NSW took the credit for d.d. commuter trains when these
 AC> were locally supplied for Sydney in the 1970s? 1960s?  Parochial
 AC> pride....
What, I have a photo in front of me of a Danish double deck commuter train of
1879, and not an experiment either! And they certainly don't claim it as a
"first"!
Greg.P.
  
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