Ahem, I am led to believe that Kiwi weather has remarkable
similarities to the British weather!

However it should be pointed out that if we have 4 days of continuous
sunshine the water board declares drought conditions.

We also have the wrong kind of snow falling on railway tracks and
insist on having trees that shed their leaves all over railway lines
in Autumn - much to British Rail (as was) surprise each year.

British Rail were also known to have spent a rather large sum of
money purchasing a leaf sweeping train from Sweden - conveniently
forgetting that 1) The train used a pantograph - most SE lines are
3rd rail type so the nice metallic brushes on the wheels shorted out
the track and 2) the train was wider than most tunnels in the South
East - The solution was to widen some of the tunnels - and when the
train still shorted the 3rd rail moved the train to the East to North
run where overhead lines were used - except those lines didn't suffer
from falling leaves.

I wish I was intelligent, I could have had a job with BR..

Colin

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cdb, bodgy1@optusnet.com.au on 17/11/2002

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