The Flesh and the Fantasy
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Spanking movie. Its all in the mind. Minnie Champ
Published by alchemic20
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I've always been interested in trains. Always. Even as a...
Are you listening to me?
Even as a *********, I used to go down the platform, religiously, religiously, every Sunday,
and take the train numbers. Royal Scott, Coronation Scott, wonderful trains.
Look it up in the books, my dear. Look it up in the books. I don't have time to explain.
Grounders aerate shoulders. 191 feet deep at Hampstead, platform level, you know.
Yes. Runs through a bed of clay. The whole line.
Oh, that's good, isn't it?
Follows the bed of clay around to waterproof the tunnel.
That's why it goes round and round. Longest underground tunnel in the world.
From Moreton, East Finchley, 17 and a half miles. 17 and a half miles.
And it goes through the clay.
A lot of my friends are directors in the Channel Tunnel, and they are losing their shirts.
I mean, this is the um*****th time that they have tried to tunnel under the Channel,
and every time they've failed. This one's going to be no exception.
They want to run trains through there at 120, 125 miles an hour. Ridiculous.
Never be done. Never be done.
The planning's all wrong, and the work, poor workmanship.
You can't get the workmanship these days. It's the same everywhere.
Well, I think with modern sophisticated development, you'd think they would get the workmanship.
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