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Old June 15th 06, 09:49 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Spur between Hillingdon and Ickenham

"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, victormeldrewsyoungerbrother wrote:

lantern wrote:

I was looking on Google maps at the uxbridge branch of the met line, and
I
noticed a spur between Hillingdon and Ickenham.


snip

And nothing between Hillingdon and Ickenham; i assume that's a typo
(mappo?).


No, it's a carto. "Typo" is a contraction of "typographical error". The art
of drawing maps is cartography, so it's a "cartographical error", which
contracts to "carto".

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