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:''"I'm guessing there are no request stops in Germany, where you pull down the signpost, or at night set out a flare, to get the train to stop to pick you up."'' - Yes there are. You have to push a button to make the train stop. There are stop request buttons inside these trains too. I find the concept of setting up a flare at night incredibly cute - At a station like that, I wouldn't even think of having to mess with the train signals! I have to visit Canada! -- [[User:relet|relet]] 11:23, 21 October 2010 (UTC) | :''"I'm guessing there are no request stops in Germany, where you pull down the signpost, or at night set out a flare, to get the train to stop to pick you up."'' - Yes there are. You have to push a button to make the train stop. There are stop request buttons inside these trains too. I find the concept of setting up a flare at night incredibly cute - At a station like that, I wouldn't even think of having to mess with the train signals! I have to visit Canada! -- [[User:relet|relet]] 11:23, 21 October 2010 (UTC) | ||
| + | ::Note that passenger travel by train is pretty rare in Canada, except for a few commuter and interurban routes. It's possible that it's been ten or fifteen years since I rode an actual train in Canada. It may have been thirty years ago that I last used a request stop, and I was disappointed at the time that it wasn't night, so I didn't get to use a flare. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 12:35, 21 October 2010 (UTC) | ||
Revision as of 12:35, 21 October 2010
Feel free to tell Robyn how she should have done better, or to correct her German.
- Better than Robyn? Impossible! It's a wonderful report. :)
- "I'm guessing there are no request stops in Germany, where you pull down the signpost, or at night set out a flare, to get the train to stop to pick you up." - Yes there are. You have to push a button to make the train stop. There are stop request buttons inside these trains too. I find the concept of setting up a flare at night incredibly cute - At a station like that, I wouldn't even think of having to mess with the train signals! I have to visit Canada! -- relet 11:23, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
- Note that passenger travel by train is pretty rare in Canada, except for a few commuter and interurban routes. It's possible that it's been ten or fifteen years since I rode an actual train in Canada. It may have been thirty years ago that I last used a request stop, and I was disappointed at the time that it wasn't night, so I didn't get to use a flare. -Robyn 12:35, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
