On Dec 2, 11:11*am, David wrote:
I looked at the new entrance to the tube at King's Cross this afternoon
and took a picture, uploaded towww.rosenstiel.co.uk/kxnewtube,jpg.

They seem to have created a new Underground line, the "City" line. The
sign directs passengers: "Underground - Circle, City, Hammersmith and
Metropolitan".

Corrected URL:http://www.rosenstiel.co.uk/kxnewtub...newthatstealth tunnel
project would eventually get outed....

In fairness, that row of text does not say "line", so I wonder if
somewhere during the production stage it was intended to be
"Hammersmith this way; the circle this way; the city this way" etc.,
but the implementation has gone awry? *Either way, as you imply it's
incorrect (and inconsistent).

I think somebody told the signwriter that underground lines had to be
presented in alphabetical order, and the signwriter, seeing

Circle, Hammersmith and City and Metropolitan

on his brief, and not knowing that the H&C was a single line,
corrected it to what you see there.

Still, the NR signwriter at KX did a slightly less absurd job than
whoever is responsible for LC&R's pathetic attempts at signage in the
tunnel between the new ticket hall and St Pancras: currently you get
sent in opposite directions for "UK Rail" and "Southeastern"!

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