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Old July 18th 12, 06:56 AM posted to uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.railway
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Default TV Alert: Building The London Underground

On Jul 17, 9:49*pm, "Mortimer" wrote:
"77002" wrote in message

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On Jul 14, 2:58 pm, allantracy wrote:
It hopelessly confuses the Crossrail and the TfL systems. *A lot of
banging
and crashing "music" and voice-of-doom commentary. *I suppose that they
are
using "London Underground" in a generic sense.


I watched the first and got fed up, it’s very shall we say
‘introductory level’.


Nothing wrong with that but I would imagine most here would have heard
it all before.


It’s a program aimed at the kind of normal that probably believes
trains have steering wheels.


IMHO, not a good program. *It was simplistic tothose with some
knowledge of the subject. * It was misleading to those without. *The
graphics were not bad.


What was misleading about it? Other than that it mentioned TfL and Crossrail
projects in the same breath rather than making it clear that Crossrail is
not part of TfL or "the London Underground system".


The City & South London was the first subway line? Whatever happened
to the Met? Apparently steam motive pwer was considered! (On a tube
line). Greathead was the first to tunnel with a shield! What was
Marc Brunel utilizing (OK, not so refined, but still the same
principle).

The program was simplistic and lacked detail, even for "normals".