Thread: London - Met widened lines query.
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Old March 24th 09, 11:32 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default London - Met widened lines query.
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:09:33 -0700 (PDT) someone who may be
wrote this:-

On Mar 23, 4:42*pm, Mizter T wrote:
never officially been allocated the status of being the capital of the
UK and/or England,

It doesn't need to. The capital is where the kings decided it was. It
didn't need rubber stamp approval by some civil servants (or whatever
the norman equivalent was).

Indeed. England has had a number of capitals as the fashion and
politics changed. Scotland has had many more, even after it became
one country.



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