View Single Post
  #20   Report Post  
Old July 17th 12, 02:52 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity at LondonBanter: Aug 2003
Posts: 10,125
Default TV Alert: Building The London Underground

In message , at 18:32:46
on Mon, 16 Jul 2012, remarked:

I hadn't heard before how they built the Paris Metro stations as boxes
above ground and then sank them into the squidgy soil...


Only to get under the Seine, surely?


In Seine, as we say.
--
Roland Perry