"...Charing Cross dates from before the Norman Conquest. Here Caesar
scorned the advances of Boadicea, who had come to the station to meet
him; and here St. Augustin uttered his famous mot, "Non Angli, sed
angeli." ...
"The speed of the trains is adjusted to that of the Roman Legions:
three miles per hour. And they are always late, in honour of the
immortal Fabius, "qui cunctando restituit rem." "

What a load of twaddle.