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Old April 25th 12, 09:17 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Patrickov Patrickov is offline
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On 4月16日, 下午10時05分, Neil Williams wrote:
On Apr 16, 3:51*pm, redcat wrote:

I lived in London through much of the 'seventies and anytime I needed to
go somewhere where the Circle or the District appeared to be the obvious
choices my heart sank.


Both lines remain the pits.


Why?


Knackered infrastructure, mainly.

But, unlike other countries, it does seem to be a LUL thing to run
nice new trains on knackered old infrastructure, rather than the
opposite as is more common (though usually maintaining the old trains
well so they aren't knackered).

Neil


No offense, but I think that's what you get for having a pioneer. It
has its price, IMHO.