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October 3rd 04, 04:14 AM
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Which disaster that took place in what is now (and maybe was then,
I won't be specific) a part of the London Underground system is mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary? -- Mark Brader, Toronto "It's the almost correct solutions that are the most dangerous..." -- Dave Eisen |
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October 3rd 04, 07:22 AM
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"Mark Brader" wrote in message
... Which disaster that took place in what is now (and maybe was then, I won't be specific) a part of the London Underground system is mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary? Wild guess - the blowout on the contruction of the Thames Tunnel which nearly killed IK Brunel. -- John Rowland - Spamtrapped Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood. That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line - It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes |
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October 3rd 04, 08:51 AM
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Which disaster that took place in what is now (and maybe was then, I won't be specific) a part of the London Underground system is mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary? Google suggests the London Underground has been mercifully spared too many disasters - not sure where "accident" finishes and "disaster" starts mind you... The crush at Bethnal Green and the wartime bombing of the other "B" stations... Moorgate, Kings Cross... Are there others? I would have expected some diastrous tunnel fires under steam traction. -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG |
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October 3rd 04, 09:08 AM
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news:c2bc7cec8cdadcff53954fa8985c15c7.125090@mygat e.mailgate.org... not sure where "accident" finishes and "disaster" starts mind you... Privatisation. -- John Rowland - Spamtrapped Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood. That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line - It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes |
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October 3rd 04, 11:17 AM
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John Rowland wrote:
"Troy Steadman" wrote in message news:c2bc7cec8cdadcff53954fa8985c15c7.125090@mygat e.mailgate.org... not sure where "accident" finishes and "disaster" starts mind you... Privatisation. But privatisation wasn't an accident. It was quite deliberate and a total disaster (for the Treasury). |
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October 3rd 04, 11:22 AM
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Piccadilly Pilot wrote:
John Rowland wrote: "Troy Steadman" wrote in message news:c2bc7cec8cdadcff53954fa8985c15c7.125090@mygat e.mailgate.org... not sure where "accident" finishes and "disaster" starts mind you... Privatisation. But privatisation wasn't an accident. It was quite deliberate and a total disaster (for the Treasury). That was supposed to read somewhat humourously, I'm not sure it worked. |
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October 3rd 04, 05:05 PM
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On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 08:51:44 +0000 (UTC), "Troy Steadman"
wrote: "Mark Brader" wrote in message Which disaster that took place in what is now (and maybe was then, I won't be specific) a part of the London Underground system is mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary? Google suggests the London Underground has been mercifully spared too many disasters - not sure where "accident" finishes and "disaster" starts mind you... The crush at Bethnal Green and the wartime bombing of the other "B" stations... Bamden Town? Bambeth North??? Barble Arch???? Brafalgar square????? -- Nick Cooper [Carefully remove the detonators from my e-mail address to reply!] The London Underground at War: http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...ra/lu/tuaw.htm 625-Online - classic British television: http://www.625.org.uk 'Things to Come' - An Incomplete Classic: http://www.thingstocome.org.uk |
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October 4th 04, 08:40 AM
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October 4th 04, 09:53 AM
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Nick Cooper wrote:
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 08:51:44 +0000 (UTC), "Troy Steadman" wrote: "Mark Brader" wrote in message Which disaster that took place in what is now (and maybe was then, I won't be specific) a part of the London Underground system is mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary? Google suggests the London Underground has been mercifully spared too many disasters - not sure where "accident" finishes and "disaster" starts mind you... The crush at Bethnal Green and the wartime bombing of the other "B" stations... Bamden Town? Bambeth North??? Barble Arch???? Brafalgar square????? Bank and Balham, I assume, though I wouldn't have thought these warranted a mention in the OED. I don't think that any disaster of this sort has coined a new word in the language, so I assume that there is a reference to the disaster in an entry for the part of London where it happened. The disaster would therefore have to be very significant in the history of either the location or London's railways in general. Moorgate can be ruled out, as the location of the disaster is no longer in the LU system. Harrow (1952) is a possibility but here too the mainline tracks on which it occurred aren't part of the LU system. King's Cross seems the most likely, as the disaster had a huge effect thereafter on the physical and procedural aspects of the Underground system. There's no entry for King's Cross in my 1-volume New Oxford Dictionary of English, but maybe in the OED itself ...? -- Richard J. (to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address) |
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