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Brimstone · July 18th 05, 05:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
If TFL really are using the phrase "London underground" they really
area losing the plot...

"London Underground", "London Underground Limited" and even "London's
Underground" could all in some way refer to the network developed from
1863, though of course the use of the title "UndergrounD" to embrace
what were then still independant or associated Tube and Sub-surface
railways came in the early-20th Century. What "London underground" is
heaven knows, it sounds a like part of a terrorist organisation in
itself.

However, IIRC a correspondent to "Modern Railways" writng from the
Netherlands in about 1984 (when LU Ltd was formed) advised that simply using
the initials spelt a less than polite term for the male appendage in his
native language.