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[challenge entry] The new, privatised Cape-Cairo Railway opened 97 years late, and £249bn over budget.


The stations were still crap.

From the The British Empire Strikes Back challenge. See all 91 entries (closed)

(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:24, archived)
# Bet the toilets are better
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:30, archived)
# And cheaper.
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:41, archived)
# it's one of those new tilting train owners
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:46, archived)
# :D
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 11:02, archived)
# Arf! He looks so proud.
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 10:49, archived)
# 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.
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 11:04, archived)
# Ha!
That's attention to detail!
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 12:23, archived)
# Have a marvellous mental image
of the locals holding onto the outside while the train does top speed
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 11:16, archived)
# If you look closely
there's a couple of dudes hanging from the doorway at the end of the first carriage...
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 11:26, archived)
# he claimed there wasn't a problem with a waterlogged track at the northern end
but he was in de nile
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 11:31, archived)
# Hurrah!
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 11:32, archived)
# waiting so, so long to use that joke somewhere...
(do one in paris so i can do my other one)
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 11:34, archived)
# \o/
(, Thu 10 Jan 2013, 11:39, archived)