On 25/12/2014 21:31, eastender wrote:
Nice piece in the Christmas Economist on Charles Yerkes, "an American
financier and ex-convict" who extended/built several Tube lines.

http://www.economist.com/news/christ...-changed-shape


E.

I thought this to be just a light pastiche - until I read:

"Large Victorian houses clustered in places such as Clapham Junction, a
south London neighbourhood home to a railway terminus since 1863."