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Old June 25th 08, 07:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Union Street station

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, wrote:

"Stephen O'Connell" wrote in message
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James Farrar wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:34:28 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

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 apparently is such a station in New York City.


So there is:

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?216:2870

There's also a Union Squa

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?203:2866

But, unusually for a US city, no Union Station! Although it seems one was
mooted, in the Bronx:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...9C94 6397D6CF
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...9D94 6397D6CF
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...9D94 6397D6CF

The 2nd of november article has a map which puts it he

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=40.8...=UTF8&t=k&z=17

tom

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