Niklas Karlsson wrote:
In article , Mrs Redboots wrote:
Peter Beale wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 12 Jan 2005:
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).

Hmmm - TfL now describes all of them as "The Tube"..... (something
about when you're in a hole, stop digging?)

Surely you mean "in a tunnel"? :-)


Isn't a hole simply a tunnel in a different direction, or vice versa?