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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: NobodyNobody Date: Jun 3, 2008 16:47
>On Jun 1, 9:08Â pm, "Uncle Joe" over.com> wrote:>>
>> Union Station is a great place and an example of what Sydney's Central could
>> be like, great shopping and great food. No one stopped my taking pics when I
>> was there last year.
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>Having been to Several Amtrak Stations myself they were al re -
>furbished back in the ealy 1990's.
>The Security Guard was caught of Guard when he didin't realise the CEO
>was also standing by
>when he was being interviewed.
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>Taking photographs of Railway Stations in the Former Soviet Union and
>other Eastern Bloc countries
>when they were under communism rule was also forbidden. If you were
>caught taking photographs
> your film was taken out of your camera and destroyed.
Even "post Soviet", it was frowned upon... I raised the eyebrows of
our Intourist guide in mid-1991 when I climbed the overbridge at
Ulan-Ude in the Buryat Republic, just east of Lake Baikal, to take a
pic of the "Rossiya"/Trans-Siberian.
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