On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:38 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Peter Beale) wrote:


They're not tubes - they are cut-and-cover ("tube" traditionally describes
the trains using the deep-level bored tube lines, not those like the Met and
District built by scooping out a trough and subsequently covering it up).


www.thetube.com (tube.tfl.gov.uk) seems to have details of the met
line on it (Under the heading "London Underground The Tube") :-)