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		EwanToo on July 23, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Britain has ‘ghost trains’ I think BBC journalists run this story out whenever they're low on other work to do, here's basically the same feature, exactly 3 years ago... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18644343

0xdeadbeefbabe on July 23, 2015 | [–]

It's not just BBC journalists. I think they learned the technique from HN.

innguest on July 23, 2015 | [–]

Which is a shame because this ghost train story isn't as interesting as the real fake jobs story going on in the UK right now (real people working fake jobs).

But perhaps the BBC doesn't want to cover that story for some reason.

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