The new, privatised Cape-Cairo Railway opened 97 years late, and £249bn over budget.
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And disproportionately sized.
The more I look at it, the less well it works, size-wise. Trouble is, enbiggifying the bit on the right makes it lose definition; shrinking the bit on the left means that it doesn't fit so well. Ach, well. I should be doing real work anyway.
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Thu 10 Jan 2013, 11:04,
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Have a marvellous mental image
of the locals holding onto the outside while the train does top speed
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Thu 10 Jan 2013, 11:16,
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If you look closely
there's a couple of dudes hanging from the doorway at the end of the first carriage...
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Thu 10 Jan 2013, 11:26,
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he claimed there wasn't a problem with a waterlogged track at the northern end
but he was in de nile
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Thu 10 Jan 2013, 11:31,
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