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Roland Perry · March 2nd 14, 07:32 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 18:56:27
on Sat, 1 Mar 2014, remarked:
The above ground bit ceased to be anything to do with a tube station
80 years ago. Better to take one that has been less knocked about like
York Road or Aldwych if you want a museum.

Has someone paid £53m for *just* the below-ground-level bits of the
station?

What makes you think that?

Because of what you said about it ceasing to be "anything to do with
a tube station". You can't sell a tube station that isn't one any
more.

Or do they mean "we've sold a site that used to be a tube station,
but hasn't been for a long time, apart from some bits below the
surface".

Do you understand how the London Electric Railways built their tube stations
about 110 years ago?

What's so different about them?

Can we get back to the point though.

What have they sold:

a) the whole site
b) just the ground floor (in whatever way it's currently fitted out) and
below.
c) just the "below ground".

ps I'm sort of assuming they haven't sold the platform area and other
parts immediately adjacent to the line, on that level.
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Roland Perry