On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 13:16 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 9/25/2011 12:59 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 07:43 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > > >> if it's about whether the subway/rapid-transit system is connected to > >> the national rail system > > > > That doesn't quite work. For example, the US doesn't have a national > > rail system. > > Sure it does. The term (or a similar one) is used for the connected > common carrier freight trackage.
Well, in the British English sense, about the only rails that such a phrase properly works with is the Amtrak-owned Northeast Corridor. Everything else is just private property.
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