On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, David wrote:

On Dec 2, 9:19*am, PhilD wrote:
On Dec 2, 12:02*am, Robert Neville wrote:

wrote:
I looked at the new entrance to the tube at King's Cross this afternoon
and took a picture, uploaded towww.rosenstiel.co.uk/kxnewtube,jpg.

They seem to have created a new Underground line, the "City" line. The
sign directs passengers: "Underground - Circle, City, Hammersmith and
Metropolitan".

Corrected URL:www.rosenstiel.co.uk/kxnewtube.jpgKnewthat stealth tunnel
project would eventually get outed....

In fairness, that row of text does not say "line", so I wonder if
somewhere during the production stage it was intended to be
"Hammersmith this way; the circle this way; the city this way" etc.,
but the implementation has gone awry? *Either way, as you imply it's
incorrect (and inconsistent).

I think somebody told the signwriter that underground lines had to be
presented in alphabetical order, and the signwriter, seeing

Circle, Hammersmith and City and Metropolitan

on his brief, and not knowing that the H&C was a single line,
corrected it to what you see there.

People who are not familiar with the Underground system often think that
the Hammermith and City line is two separate lines, especially when
included in a list.

I've even heard radio travel news presenters refer to it as though it's
two different lines.

"Delays occurring on the Circle, Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City
lines..." she said, at which I chuckled to myself.