As the August bank holiday approaches, Netropolitan’s thoughts turn to
endless days spent on the sun-soaked beaches of the Mediterranean. And where
better to start planning the holiday than the wealth of online railway
timetables that are appearing on the Web? The timetables are something of a
metaphor for Europe’s politics. Britain’s attitude to Europe is, of course,
deeply ambivalent. So the country’s online railway timetable
(http://www.railtrack.co.uk/travel) more or less stops at Calais Maritime.
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