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It should be noted, for the record, that Mussolini didn't make the trains run on time. He did implement a series of programmes that saw some of the trains - principally the ones foreign journalists and tourists might use - run on a far more efficient basis, but in the main, Italian Railways were chaotic before fascism and remained chaotic throughout. Similarly, though Mussolini liked to claim the credit for Milano Centrale, it was actually a building that had been planned for a couple of decades. Milan's old main railway station was where Repubblica is now, but as is often the case with European termini, what was adequate in the mid-19th century quickly became outdated and useless. A new station was planned, with a design approved in 1912, but then something called the Great War came along and held everything up. Rebuilding resumed in the mid-twenties, to more or less the same scheme, so while it opened in 1931 under Mussolini's rule, it didn't have that much to do with him.What's…