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Old December 25th 14, 08:31 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default American who transformed the Tube

Nice piece in the Christmas Economist on Charles Yerkes, "an American
financier and ex-convict" who extended/built several Tube lines.

http://www.economist.com/news/christ...-changed-shape


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