On 21 Feb, 19:43, "Nick Pedley"
wrote:
"Graeme Wall" wrote in message

... As to the story of evacuating the Royal Family in an emergency there are
two
runways in Central London capable of taking an aircraft of the Queens
Flight
assuming the latter still exists.

Why waste time driving to one of these spots which would need some
preparation when a helicopter based in your back garden can get you further
away in the same time?
32 (The Royal) Squadron is based at Northolt with BAe 146's and HS125
bizjets while the Royal Household have their own Sikorsky S76 helicopter to
get them around.
Where did I learn that? The Royal Website!http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page2836.asp

Exactly. If a secret entrance ever existed to the Vic line (So in
times of crisis Her Maj could squash onto a service train and zoom
along to the safe havens of Walthamstow or Brixton?) it would have
long ago have been discarded as virtually the whole of her family seem
to be pilots and tooling around in choppers is much more their style.

"kytelly" wrote in message
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On 21 Feb, 19:43, "Nick Pedley"
wrote:
"Graeme Wall" wrote in message

... As to the story of
evacuating the Royal Family in an emergency there are
two
runways in Central London capable of taking an aircraft of the Queens
Flight
assuming the latter still exists.

Why waste time driving to one of these spots which would need some
preparation when a helicopter based in your back garden can get you
further
away in the same time?
32 (The Royal) Squadron is based at Northolt with BAe 146's and HS125
bizjets while the Royal Household have their own Sikorsky S76 helicopter
to
get them around.
Where did I learn that? The Royal
Website!http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page2836.asp

Exactly. If a secret entrance ever existed to the Vic line (So in
times of crisis Her Maj could squash onto a service train and zoom
along to the safe havens of Walthamstow or Brixton?) it would have
long ago have been discarded as virtually the whole of her family seem
to be pilots and tooling around in choppers is much more their style.


Hence the Private Eye headline in the days when Phil had a Westland
Whirlwind that was painted bright red.

PE: "Lokk over there! The Duke of Edinburgh has his big red chopper out on
the lawns!".

In message , Bill Again
writes
Hence the Private Eye headline in the days when Phil
I've got this nagging feeling that Spitting Image had a different name
for him, but what was it?
--
Clive.

Brian Watson wrote:

A contributor to The Robert Elms Show on BBC Radio London has just claimed
there are secret underground train lines between Buckingham Palace and
various other London sites.

Nifty conspiracy theory, or fact?

--
Brian


I heard a bit of this whilst out for a jog this afternoon - if anyone
wants to listen again for the next week they can do so by following
this link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/netwo...robertelms_wed

I've heard plenty of good stuff about London on Robert Elms' show when
I've tuned in, but the stories about secret Underground railways that
featured on this particular show was not good stuff, it was all a load
of cobblers!

There are undoubtedly some quasi-secret tunnels and installations in
London - for example the "Q-Whitehall" facility and "PINDAR" [1] - and
there are quite possibly a number of others - but there's no secret
Underground railway lines!

More about the aforementioned underground installations on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_citadels_under_London

If you want to read about a Metro system that quite possibly does have
a secret line, as well as a supposed dual-purpose so it serves as a
link between military facilities, take a look at this unofficial site
about the Pyongyang Metro:
http://www.pyongyang-metro.com/index.html

Well the 'Strategic Reserve' at Heapey sure has got someone woried.
Google Earth has removed all details with a blur and lots of smears.
Is there something going on there? Few other sites have been doctored as
much as Heapey

Pete

On 21 Feb 2007 10:00:33 -0800, "Mizter T" wrote:

snip

If you want to read about a Metro system that quite possibly does have
a secret line, as well as a supposed dual-purpose so it serves as a
link between military facilities, take a look at this unofficial site
about the Pyongyang Metro:
http://www.pyongyang-metro.com/index.html

Hasn't the Moscow Metro got a few "unadvertised" sidings in the
vicinity of various government buildings ?

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:47:18 +0000, Charles Ellson wrote:
Hasn't the Moscow Metro got a few "unadvertised" sidings in the
vicinity of various government buildings ?

Our government, or theirs?

Charles Ellson wrote:

Hasn't the Moscow Metro got a few "unadvertised" sidings in the
vicinity of various government buildings ?

Moscow has a 4-line secret metro, longer than the public Metro....
allegedly.
I wouldn't be surprised if the stations are more ornate too!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro_2

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, John Rowland wrote:

Charles Ellson wrote:

Hasn't the Moscow Metro got a few "unadvertised" sidings in the
vicinity of various government buildings ?

Moscow has a 4-line secret metro, longer than the public Metro....
allegedly.

There's apparently a whole secret city under Belgrade. So i heard.

tom

--
information distribution, vox humana, deviation, handle, feed, l.g. **

On 22 Feb, 02:00, "Mizter T" wrote:
Brian Watson wrote:
A contributor to The Robert Elms Show on BBC Radio London has just claimed
there are secret underground train lines between Buckingham Palace and
various other London sites.

Nifty conspiracy theory, or fact?

--
Brian

I heard a bit of this whilst out for a jog this afternoon - if anyone
wants to listen again for the next week they can do so by following
this link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/netwo...l?london/rober...

I've heard plenty of good stuff about London on Robert Elms' show when
I've tuned in, but the stories about secret Underground railways that
featured on this particular show was not good stuff, it was all a load
of cobblers!

There are undoubtedly some quasi-secret tunnels and installations in
London - for example the "Q-Whitehall" facility and "PINDAR" [1] - and
there are quite possibly a number of others - but there's no secret
Underground railway lines!

More about the aforementioned underground installations on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_citadels_under_London

If you want to read about a Metro system that quite possibly does have
a secret line, as well as a supposed dual-purpose so it serves as a
link between military facilities, take a look at this unofficial site
about the Pyongyang Metro:
http://www.pyongyang-metro.com/index.html


That pyongyang link is interesting, thanks.

As for all the conspiracy nutters, this was all being bandied about on
the other forum. I still believe in the box tunnel though. Most
interesting thread.