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Old June 25th 08, 06:44 AM posted to uk.transport.london
James Farrar James Farrar is offline
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Default Union Street station

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:53:19 +0100, "Stephen O'Connell"
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:34:28 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

Evening all,

One for the collectors of fictitious underground stations - and in
particular for the specialists who like fictitious abandoned
underground stations!

There's a film out at the moment called The Escapist, about a prison
break, made by means of underground passages. At some point, the
escapees reach the capital-U Underground, in the shape of an
abandoned station, Union Street. There's WW2 paraphernalia on the
floor, and a copy of the 1941 tube map on the wall:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.b...maps/1941.html

Which is utterly distinctive because of the way interchanges are
shown.


Indeed. I saw this film on Sunday and commented to my companion
"that's definitely a WWII-era tube map" and she thought I was bonkers


...or just needed to get out more!


She already knew that