I have to interrupt the present series of posts about
Berlioz because something one couldn’t make up has just happened in England.
People used to make jokes about British Railways, the
national rail network that served the whole of Britain (that’s England,
Scotland, and Wales) so well before dear Mrs T. carved it up and sold it to so
many different money-making companies that it became impossible to find the one
responsible when things, as they always do, went wrong.
No-one makes jokes any more; even I could not be as
tasteless as that when the cost-cutting money-grabbing of rail companies has
caused many deaths, including those of people I knew. But the latest idiocy
will only hurt football fans so one may laugh:
A special railway station has been opened to serve a large
football stadium in the English Midlands. It was announced today that it will
not open when there is a football match as there would be too many people and
it would cost too much.
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