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Published 11/07/2009 by BBC

The rail thread that links Europe

In the week the Lisbon Treaty was finally ratified, the BBC's Johnny Dymond travelled the continent's railways to glean a sense of its past and future.

It is early in the morning in Warsaw, far too early to be doing anything but sleeping. It is cold and dark outside, and...

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...said my friend. "It was a railway station. Where the trains took the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto directly to Treblinka." Our car jerked forward...

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...of the place is. "We spent a fortune doing this place up and now we can't afford to maintain it" despaired a Hungarian...

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