"Olof Lagerkvist" wrote in message
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Bill Again wrote:

"MIG" wrote in message
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On Feb 21, 7:39 pm, "Mizter T" wrote:

However I wonder whether it is true. If you take a look at the
Victoria line's route as marked on the central London bus map then it
is shown as passing under the Buck House garden but not the building
itself - this makes sense as the line needs to turn so as to be
aligned to run southeast from Victoria station towards Pimlico and
Vauxhall.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/buses/pdfdocs/centlond.pdf



I think the alignments in the bus maps bear little relation to the
geography. They are just showing that an Underground line links the
places. Look how they've drawn the Bakerloo, which we know exactly
follows all the kinks of Haymarket and Regent Street.

I've got no opinion on where the Victoria line goes though.



That's interesting. I took a look at the bus map and was surprised to see
the Vic line shown as passing to the west of Buck house. As I recall it,
the maps of the time showed it passing to the east of the palace. It only
managed to do this by taking a big curve (to the east). Had it not done
so it would have passed more or less under Buck house.


There are maps on the TfL Journeyplanner website that I suppose show the
correct routes of the tubes but I don't think they are directly
downloadable. However, to get one for example over the Buckingham Palace
area you can go to http://www.journeyplanner.org select for example
origin, Place of interest, St James's Palace and destination Place of
interest, Buckingham Palace and search. You will get a suggested path to
walk and when clicking "view" or "view selected" you get to a detailed
page with two blue buttons, "start map" and "end map" which in turn link
to two dynamically created PDF documents with parts of the map with the
suggested path overlayed.

At that maps the Victoria Line runs east of the palace, just around the
Queen Victoria memorial.

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Well found! And these maps show the line running more or less down the
eastern edge of Green Park, passing round the front of Buck house and then
curving round to Victoria. It would seem to be simpler to go diagonally
across Green Park, under the palace and straight to Victoria. Enter Phil
from the right - "not bloody likely!"

Bill