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wrote in message ... On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 09:46:48 +0000 Graeme Wall wrote: On 06/02/2015 09:23, The Real Doctor wrote: On 05/02/15 22:37, wrote: This should be interesting. http://www.theguardian.com/cities/20...d-tube-tunnels london-underline Only the Guardian ... "Stretches of vacant tunnel remain at Goodge Street and Stockwell, for example, remnants of a bizarre second world war plan to connect deep bomb shelters into an express connection running parallel with the Northern Line." Nothing like getting the facts totally mangled. Well it is The Guardian. If you want facts rather than guesswork and uneducated opinion then its the wrong paper. Looks like Subterranea Britannica "The Bombings of 1940 forced a reappraisal of deep-shelter policy and at the end of October the Government decided to construct a system of deep shelters linked to existing tube stations. London Transport was consulted about the sites and required to build the tunnels at the public expense with the understanding that they were to have the option of taking them over for railway use after the war. With the latter point in mind, positions were chosen on routes of possible north-south and east-west express tube railways" http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/featur...ers/index.html and Wiki must be talking out of their arses as well then "London deep-level shelters Background[edit] Each shelter consists of a pair of parallel tunnels 16 feet 6 inches (5.03 m) in diameter and 1,200 feet (370 m) long. Each tunnel is subdivided into two decks, and each shelter was designed to hold up to 8,000 people. It was planned that after the war the shelters would be used as part of new express tube lines paralleling parts of the existing Northern and Central lines. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_deep-level_shelters Maybe its just as well that there are experts like you around with the facts at your fingertips, to put everybody right michael adams .... -- Spud |