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National Rail - Guide to UK national rail services, provided on behalf of the Association of Train Operating Companies. Features journey planner and booking service, real time train running information and details of scheduled engineering work.

UK Railways - Links to route maps, timetables, train operating companies, associated businesses, rail mart, and travel bureau.

Hertfordshire Rail Tours - UK rail tour organiser offering a variety of train trips around Britain.

Holidayrail - Hosted Tours of Britain's heritage railways. Includes itineraries, booking details of one or two week and custom tours.

Pathfinder Rail Tours - Details of forthcoming tours using steam, diesel or electric traction. Contact information and links.

TrainDirect - Booking and Season Ticket renewals for First Group services; Great Western, Great Eastern and North Western.

Talk About Trains - Details and sales for chartered trains and special events.

BritRail - Unlimited train travel on one of the most elaborate networks in the world.

Qjump - Timetables, reservations and tickets for any UK rail journey.

Britain on Track - Source for Britrail passes and various other British rail related products.

Eurotunnel - Online booking and travel information and comparative shopping prices.

Amsterdam Express - Train fares and timetable from London or Cambridge to Holland.

TheTrainLine - Timetables, ticket booking on-line and reserve seats for train operators in mainland UK.

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It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green Rail Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Rail The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Rail blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . 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Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Rail The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken Rail "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett Rail "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman Rail "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin Rail Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Rail Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Rail "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Rail Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." 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