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wrote in message ... On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 14:23:32 -0000 "michael adams" wrote: 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...ned-tube-tunne s 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 and Wiki must be talking out of their arses as well then Or got the wrong end of the stick. So which word or words in the 12 word sentence from your own link " These plans were shelved at the outset of the Second World War," are you having the biggest difficulty with ? http://underground-history.co.uk/shelters.php "As congestion on the Northern Line increased in the '30s, a plan was developed to build a second pair of tunnels in parallel with the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line that would act as an express route through London" Maybe its just as well that there are experts like you around with the facts at your fingertips, to put everybody right It would seem someone who can use google a bit better than you would be a start. Reading the material you actually link to might help ease your obvious confusion. " It was hoped that when their wartime use had come to an end, tunneling would re-start to allow the already constructed tunnel sections to be interconnected, providing the express Northern Line route. For this reason, most shelters were constructed with ease of access to the existing Northern Line in mind. So there were plans before the war. These were shelved. " These plans were shelved at the outset of the Second World War," Then with the start of the war, as the Guardian and SB says, it was decided to build deep shelters. At the time, as the Guardian and SB say, the possibility was left open that these could form part of an express line running parallel to the existing Northern Line. Similar to that proposed pre-war but shelved. Hence their siting. HTH michael adams .... -- Spud |