In article , (Mizter T) wrote:

"Zen83237" wrote:

wrote:

The term "Tube" goes back to the earliest days of deep-level tunnels.
Wasn't the Central London Railway (now the Central Line) dubbed "The
Tuppenny Tube" soon after opening in 1900?

But as a whole I have always referred to it as the Underground. It
is after all run by London Underground. I now find that some people
inclding TfL themselves no refer to the whole system as the tube.

Nothing new in that at all - TfL refer to it as both the Tube and
London Underground, as has been the case for the past three decades.

Some references to the "Tube" in official publicity...

1978:

http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters...=24QJ1eoqNwo&_
IXMAXHITS_=1&IXinv=2000/9595&IXsummary=results/results&IXsearch=tube&_IXFIRST
_=14

1981:

http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters...=24QJ1eoqNwo&_
IXMAXHITS_=1&IXinv=2000/7323&IXsummary=results/results&IXsearch=tube&_IXFIRST
_=19

1982:

http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters...=24QJ1eoqNwo&_
IXMAXHITS_=1&IXinv=2000/7142&IXsummary=results/results&IXsearch=tube&_IXFIRST
_=22

1982:

http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters...=24QJ1eoqNwo&_
IXMAXHITS_=1&IXinv=2000/6532&IXsummary=results/results&IXsearch=tube&_IXFIRST
_=20

1983 (very eighties!):

http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters...=24QJ1eoqNwo&_
IXMAXHITS_=1&IXinv=1999/39466&IXsummary=results/results&IXsearch=tube&_IXFIRS
T_=23

1986:

http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters...=24QJ1eoqNwo&_
IXMAXHITS_=1&IXinv=1987/28/2&IXsummary=results/results&IXsearch=tube&_IXFIRST
_=30

1987:

http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters...=24QJ1eoqNwo&_
IXMAXHITS_=1&IXinv=2000/4484&IXsummary=results/results&IXsearch=tube&_IXFIRST
_=35

1988:

http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters...=24QJ1eoqNwo&_
IXMAXHITS_=1&IXinv=1989/99&IXsummary=results/results&IXsearch=tube&_IXFIRST_=
40

1994:

http://www.ltmcollection.org/posters...=24QJ1eoqNwo&_
IXMAXHITS_=1&IXinv=1996/8353&IXsummary=results/results&IXsearch=tube&_IXFIRST
_=59

Long before then too, like when I was at school in the 1960s.

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Colin Rosenstiel