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  2. From: pop@cs.umass.edu ( Robin Popplestone )
  3. Newsgroups: rec.railroad
  4. Subject: turntables
  5. Message-ID: <59221@dime.cs.umass.edu>
  6. Date: 27 Jan 93 21:49:49 GMT
  7. Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu
  8. Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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  10. Originator: pop@roo.cs.umass.edu
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  14. > We call them turntables here. I'm curious why they would be called
  15. > "plates" on the other side of the pond? Are the pits planked over
  16. > so they appear plate-shaped?
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  18. The english term has always been "turntable". I presume S.Koehler was
  19. transliterating a german term.
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  21. Robin Popplestone.
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