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HELLO, good evening and welcome to issue 31 of Octopus's Garden, the subzeen with its very own Thomas Jefferson quote. An html version of this subzeen is available on the Web at http://www.manorcon.demon.co.uk/octopus/index.html. It's also sent to the TAP mailing list, which you can join automatically by sending the message 'subscribe tap' to majordomo@igo.org. The message 'unsubscribe tap' sent to the same address will get you off the mailing list.

Round 11 (RR 1549 FR)

"MILLARD FILLMORE"

Railway Rivals (France)

21) (@4-21) Switzerland -- Brest (re-offer)

1st RAVEL/CANCAN (joint) 20.

22) (21-@4) Brest -- Switzerland (re-offer)

No entry (propsed joint run fails as neither party specified route).

29) (55-16) Bayonne -- Le Havre

1st TBNS 20-3 ; CANCAN +3.

30) (14-23) Paris -- Rennes

1st TBNS 20-5 ; 2nd LFffCC 10+5 ; CANCAN 0.

31) (46-34) St Etienne -- Reims

1st RAVEL 20-1+1+1 ; 2nd FREAK 10-1-3+1 ; LFffCC 0-1-3 ; TBNS +3+3.

32) (65-41) Toulon -- Strasbourg

1st RAVEL 20-3-2-1+3 ; 2nd FREAK 10+1-3-3 ; TBNS +3+3 ; CANCAN +2.

33) (22-61) Cherbourg -- Grenoble

1st RAVEL/CANCAN (joint) 20.

34) (32-@6) Dunkerque -- Spain

1st TBNS 20-2 ; 2nd RAVEL 10-1 ; CANCAN +2 ; FREAK +1.

35) (@1-53) England -- Toulouse

1st LFffCC 20 ; 2nd TBNS 10-5(ferry) ; RAVEL +5.

No Builds.

Little Froggy FooFoo ChooChoo (LFFfCc) [orange] (Neil Hopkins, England)

French Rail Emperors And Kings (FREAK) [purple] (W. Andrew York, TX)

Conrad's Absurd Names Create Acronymic Nausea (CAN CAN) [green] (Conrad von Metzke, CA)

The Blue Nosed Special (TBNS) [blue] (John Colledge, Scotland)

Railways Asserting Very Egalitarian Lines (RAVEL) [yellow] (Berry Renken, Netherlands)

Scores on the Doors

       b/fwd  21  22  29  30  31  32  33  34  35  builds c/fwd 
       -----  --  --  --  --  --  --  --  --  --  ------ -----
LFffCC   155              15  -4              20           186
FREAK    169                   7   5       1               182
CANCAN   117  10       3   0       2  10   2               144
TBNS     166          17  15   6   6      18   5           233
RAVEL    208  10              21  17  10   9   5           280
       -----  --  --  --  --  --  --  --  --  --  ------ -----
         815  20      20  30  30  30  20  30  30          1025 

Races for Round Twelve

• 22) (21-@4) Brest -- Switzerland (re-offer)
• 36) (43-26) Dijon -- La Rochelle
• 37) (62-13) Montpellier -- Paris
• 38) (33-64) Lille -- Marseille
• 39) (@2-42) BeNeLux -- Mulhouse
• 40) (51-31) Clermont Ferrand -- Amiens
• 41) (24-52) Nantes -- Limoges
• 42) (11-@5) Paris -- Italy

For Round Twelve, you may enter four of the above races. Orders for Round Twelve by 23:59:59 Greenwich Mean Time on FRIDAY, 20th NOVEMBER, 1998, to Peter Sullivan. E-mail : octopus@manorcon.demon.co.uk PGP key available for the paranoid.

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