Feel good story in the Wall Street Journal
“In this sedate Northamptonshire town, timetable compiler John Potter refused to let publication be derailed. After the bank refused him a personal loan, he remortgaged his house and used his severance pay from Thomas Cook to buy the rights and specialist software to create the "red book. He and a handful of colleagues produced the first European Rail Timetable.”
“ Readers are delighted. "The legendary continental will survive!" proclaims one email from a loyal reader. Another, a booking clerk on German railways from 1970-1991, thanks them for bringing back "my bible." One woman says her husband "needs his monthly fix." A grateful Swiss timetable compiler sent a large box of pralines. One Internet-meme-savvy fan sent a picture of his cat looking sad atop the August 2013 edition.”
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