Actually, it patently is not a fact. How do you think they got there in the first place? What causes those things called 'trains' to run on them (even if not on time!)? They don't do it by themselves.
Well, I don't have a great opinion of you either. And, unlike you, dazzer6666 has had the grace to recognise and acknowledge an alternative view to his own (see his replies to my post). Something which I would like to think you would learn to do. Maybe in a few years.
But I won't be holding my...
Railways have been running for nearly 200 years, son. Your twenty years is a tiny, and unrepresentative, sample, and your knowledge of social history is sadly lacking. Working on the railways was once a plum job, and railwaymen were the elite. To not have immaculately polished boots or shoes (or...
Showing your age rather, and certainly a lack of knowledge as to what is FACT. Recently, maybe the case, but time was when railway employees would all have had immaculately polished boots.