[Gllug] new railtrack screens

[David Irvine]

On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 14:13, John Hearns wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 12:53, SteveC wrote:
> > Run NT... I saw a couple booting at Birmingham yesterday. 
> 
> Oh nooooo..... nooooo.......
> I now have this crazy idea in my mind about Mapping British Rail.
> 
> We take a bunch of geeks - no, that's too cruel. 
> We need to round up a bunch of gullible trainspotters.
> We send them off from Paddington to random destinations,
> with a thermos of tea, a packet of sandwiches and 10p for
> the phone. They phone back to us with the arrival time and
> a traceroute of interchange stations.

Watch out for the flood of No route to host error's

> 
> Of course, to implement Steve's methods properly, as in
> the talk on Saturday, we would also need to parachute in
> trainspotters to randomly chosen remote stations, eg. Thurso,
> to make it back to Paddington.
> 
> Then when the grant money starts rolling in we go on to start
> mapping THE WORLD via the Eurotunnel.
> (Well, maybe not the whole world, as I guess the farthest our ping
> packets will reach from Paddington is Vladivostok via the
> Trans-Siberian.)
> 
> And, oh, I'm allowing Tube, Metro and Clockwork Orange journeys as
> valid.
> 
> 
> John H. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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