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Old July 31st 17, 02:16 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default New York Times on Crossrail

In message 2017073115023493883-email@domaincom, at 15:02:34 on Mon, 31
Jul 2017, eastender remarked:
Good article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/w...ssrail-uk-brex
it.html?_r=0&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clic kSource=story-heading&m
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"... Tottenham Court Road. Escalator banks descend through a sleek,
silent black ticket hall where towering, empty, white-tiled passageways
snake toward the new, vaulted train platform, curving like a half moon
into the subterranean darkness."

Ah, so the platforms do have a curve.

"hauled shiny metal panels to line the walls"

Oh dear, I hope those aren't inflammable cladding.
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Roland Perry
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