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- From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Italian railways--is 1st class worth it?
- Message-ID: <8080@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 13:54:19 GMT
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- In article <tgttgv.725107390@tb3.chem.tue.nl> tgttgv@chem.tue.nl writes:
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- # <<Direttissimo>> has never been an official train class.
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- When I was on holiday in Italy in the early 1970s the train classes were
- abbreviated to A, D, DD, R and TEE, which stood for Accelerato, Diretto,
- Direttissimo, Rapido and Trans Euro Express respectively. Accelerato
- was the local stopping service, the term `Locale' apparently having once
- been in use but since dropped. I was staying near Asti, which was kool
- because the Accelerati were worked by steam engines.
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- Ken Johnson
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