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Old August 18th 03, 10:46 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default UK subway systems
In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 10:18:38 GMT, "Martin Underwood"
wrote:

Are any of the lines in central Liverpool classed as being an
underground system, or are they all just part of the National Rail
system which happens to go below ground?

It's a bit of a grey area, really - AFAIAC, as a self-contained
system, it's an underground (if a small one) - I'd say it was more an
accident of timing that it ended up remaining part of the national
rail system, as IMO if it had been built in the last 10 years it'd
have been a PTE job like Metrolink or the Newcastle Metro.

In fact it has just been handed to Merseyside PTE.

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