Date: 31/03/2014

TALK about railway request stops and the response you’re most likely to get is: “Railway what stops?” Yet astonishingly Britain boasts around 150 such stations where if you want the train to halt you must hold out your hand, just as if you were stopping a bus.

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TALK about railway request stops and the response youre most likely to get is: Railway what stops?

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