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Old December 9th 08, 02:40 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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"Ian Jelf" wrote in message

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But bizarrely they had gone underground at Liverpool street and were
using "disused tunnels" to get to London Bridge. Now I'm willing to
suspend belief for fiction purposes that they were using a tunnel that
doesn't exist. But they least they could have done then was to cover
up the roundels saying that they were at Charing Cross, which rather
made a mockery of the whole thing. Even "King William Street" would
have done! :-)


Actually, that would have been rather clever, but assumes a knowledge
about LU's history that companies like Kudos are unlikely to have. I've
been down the old King William Street tunnels, and it would have been
great if they could have re-created that seedy (and dark ) WWII look.
Wouldn't it be nice if disused tunnels were all so clean, dry and
brightly lit as in Spooks (not a rat or stalagmite to be seen)?

Obviously, if we're being picky, I doubt that you could get a nuclear
bomb into a briefcase either. But then, Spooks isn't about accuracy, and
they do tell their tales rather well.