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   Message 135,677 of 137,311   
   Gary McGath to Paul Dormer   
   Re: Who's got the worst transit?   
   25 Feb 24 17:12:01   
   
   From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 2/25/24 10:27 AM, Paul Dormer wrote:   
   > In article , garym@mcgath.com (Gary McGath)   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> and the train unexpectedly   
   >> terminated one stop short of Hamburg because too many trains were   
   >> queued up trying to get to the Hauptbahnhof,   
   >   
   > Reminds me of my trip to Helsinki in 2017 for the Worldcon.  I was   
   > planning to spend the night in Hamburg and when I heard the announcement   
   > that we were at Hamburg, I got off the train.  However, I had been to   
   > Hamburg before and knew that the Hauptbahnhof was a large, enclosed   
   > building and I was in the open air.  It was a suburban station on the   
   > outskirts and I had just enough time to get back on board to complete my   
   > journey.   
      
   I bet it was Hamburg-Harburg. That can be confusing.   
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