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Old May 27th 10, 11:11 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 04:56:23AM -0700, lonelytraveller wrote:
On 26 May, 07:18, Paul Terry wrote:
the Post Office Railway doesn't have a straight enough alignment - it runs
north of Oxford Street, curving up to Wimpole Street and then coming
back south before the big loop up to Mount Pleasant.

Straight enough for what? The curves are fairly gentle, even though
the tube itself copes with curves like those at Shepherd's Bush


The tube copes with lots of banging and rattling, and running very
slowly.

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