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Old March 26th 09, 08:44 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit
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Default (Times): Britain to have fastest train service in the world within 12 years

Charles Ellson wrote:
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:31:16 +0100, "Lüko Willms"
wrote:

To avoid the catastrophy of the Cologne Historical Archive which
fell into the underground building site for a underground line...

I think the British Library is a further back from the road, though.

It is also a much more recent building and IIRC built to be somewhat
more "disaster-proof".



If they did exactly what was done at Cologne in front of the British
Library, that building would also have fallen into the hole.