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1928 equipment causing commuter misery at Edgware Road Tube
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Peter Masson wrote: "amogles" wrote in message ... On 6 Jun., 16:58, john wright wrote: "When there was only one line for the whole of London" What can that refer to? Neither telephones nor rail lines makes much sense in this context. When the various "lines" that now form the London Underground were built, they were separate railways and were referred to by their names, ie C&SLR etc. I assume that the practice of calling them lines must have come in when they were all part of London Underground. Does anybody know when the term "line" first came into use in this context 'Line' to refer to a railway company was certainly in use by 1895: 'The By the 1870s, when there was a popular music-hall song in northern pasts to the effect that: "He went to Bradford for to dine By the Lancashire and Yorkshire line He waited two weeks at bleak Low Moor And when he complained the porter swore That he should hace started the month before" (culled from Ahrons, and certainly applying to the 'old' L&Y of the pre-1880s period). -- Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair) |
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