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Not-very dry run for 150-year anniversary Met steam
On 18/12/2012 14:42, Nick Leverton wrote:
In article , 77002 wrote: On 18 Dec, 08:50, Nick Leverton wrote: In article , -- Which section was tube track? AFIK Earls Court to Moorgate is all sub- surface. Moreover, one cannot bring back something which never existed. The tube lines were electric from their beginning. It's a colloquialism. Indeed so. It dates back to the opening of London’s deep level lines bored thru London Clay. In 1900 the Central London Railway was opened and became known as the 'Tuppenny Tube'. This of course was because of its price and the shape of the bored tunnels. At 2d (a little under 0.5p) the price was actually a little on the high side. The tube routes should never be confused with the earlier sub surface lines. Although I guess we should not be surprised that this is lost on the bourgeois communists at the Guardian. I must say it's quite entertaining to see the number of irrelevant things you try to blame on politics, such as use of colloquial language. Few ordinary newspaper-reading people on the Clapham omnibus today, whether they read some hard-line authoritarian right-wing Murdoch rag or a slightly liberal middle-of-the-road paper like the Graun, are concerned about the hundred-year-old history of how each individual line was built in order to inform them of what they should be calling it. It's a unified system these days. Unfortunately, when the Underground Group were publicising the Tube back in the first quarter of the last century, they seem to have omitted to tell people that this word wasn't to be used for the sub-surface lines, so now you're stuck with it like it or not. Next think we know people will be claiming there is a difference between locomotive and train, commuter and passenger (or customer), locomotive 4772 and the Scotch express. Popular use is simple - in London you have the Tube and the Overground. Maybe a few adventurous types might know that somewhere in the deep south are strange green things running down the roads. -- Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK |
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