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Old June 16th 10, 02:41 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Crossrail - Transport Secretary's statement

On 16 June, 14:44, Mizter T wrote:
On Jun 16, 2:07*pm, wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:56:48 -0700 (PDT)
Mizter T wrote:


Its nice to be proved wrong sometimes. Lets hope they don't just do
do something silly like string up the catenary really low or put a load
of trackside furniture in that precludes UIC gauge trains in the future.


Sorry Boltar but the above doesn't compute... *how* can you be
wrong?!


I can scarely believe it myself though I did wonder what the day would
bring when I saw a cow jump over a blue moon last night.


Anyway , they haven't started boring them yet. Lets see if they stick to 6.2m
or reduce it on cost grounds!


Ever the cynic!

(And ssshhh - don't give them ideas!)


It'd probably cost a considerable amount of money to redesign the
tunnels to a different size and think of all the contracts which would
have to be altered!!