"It was like we were on the same railway track".
On June 22 an armistice was signed with the Germans, near Compiègne, in the same railway car that had been the scene of Foch's triumph in 1918.
Pétain was cheered after the "armistice" was signed, which Hitler staged in the same railway car in which Germany submitted to France in 1918.
Adding humiliation to injury, he forced France to sign a surrender in the same railway carriage at Compiegne where Germany had capitulated 22 years before.
Things are not as bad as they used to be: it took a century for Australia's states to adopt the same railway gauge, and the rules for road haulage have only fairly recently been unified.
But, as you watch, month after month, the news pictures which have become repetitive to the point of cliché – the same railway line in Devon washed away, Worcester Racecourse submerged yet again, and the streets of York filled with dirty water for the umpteenth time Ω you can't help but wonder if something fundamental is at work.
Two days later Marshal Philippe Pétain was appointed head of government and an armistice was sought the following day; it was signed on 22 June in the same railway carriage at Compiègne where the Germans had been made to sign in November 1918.
It crosses the same railway line and proceeds north for 4 km between farm fields.
SR 231 crosses Sheep Creek and the same railway as Second Street and leaves Springdale, parallel to the railroad, into a valley.
In 1835 Brassey submitted a tender for building the Penkridge Viaduct, further south on the same railway, between Stafford and Wolverhampton, together with 10 mile of track.
The same railway people returned the following year accompanied by federal troops.
