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<body style="overflow-wrap:break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="mail_android_message" style="line-height: 1; padding: 0.5em">In Leipzig, Germany, where allotment gardens were invented (=Schrebergarten), they were often next to railway lines (protected by a bank), bc nobody wanted to build next to the railway line, if it could be avoided and there are also often still fruit trees along that bank. Not on the railway side of if, of course. I presume a similar solution of landuse was applied in other areas of Europe.<br/><br/>Anne aka b-unicycling<br/><br/>--<br/>Sent from my Android phone with <a href="http://WEB.DE">WEB.DE</a> Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div><div class="mail_android_quote" style="line-height: 1; padding: 0.3em"><html><body>On 30/07/2021, 11:47 Philip Barnes <phil@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:</body></html><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0.8ex 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Sorry, I have never seen a railway like that.
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<br> Railways in my experience are one of the most dangerous places to be. Railways in other countries I have travelled on in mainland Europe are similar.
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<br> Phil (trigpoint)
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<br> On Friday, 30 July 2021, bkil wrote:
<br> > How was that comment considered constructive? Railway lines around
<br> > here usually have 50-100m wide buffer zones around them for stability
<br> > and noise reduction, which usually includes ditches, hedges, tree rows
<br> > or a thin strip of "forest" even.
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<br> > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 12:02 PM Philip Barnes <phil@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
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<br> > > On Friday, 30 July 2021, bkil wrote:
<br> > > > Sure, it's usually clear with private property of natural persons, but
<br> > > > what about common land? Like trees besides roads and railway lines
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<br> > > Foraging beside a railway line is a good way of achieving a Darwin Award.
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