"Offramp" wrote in message
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On Jun 8, 1:11 pm, "Paul Scott"
wrote:
"Jack Taylor" wrote in message

Is the OP from the USA? - their 'El's (for it is a normal american
abbreviated usage) are typically those lines that go down the middle of
the
street on a girderwork viaduct at about 2nd floor level, with roads
underneath -

That's right! Anyone who has seen the car chase scene in BULLITT will
know what you mean.

Err, ITYM "Anyone who has seen the car chase scene in The French Connection
will know what you mean."
--
Cheers, Steve.
Change jealous to sad to reply.

On Jun 8, 2:59 pm, "Recliner" wrote:
"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message



In article .com,
(MIG) wrote:

"Elevated"?

District Line through the Putney area.

From Parson's Green to East Putney mainly.

Isn't it on a (very high for an "underground" line) embankment, rather
than a US-style steel framework in the middle of the street?



A brick viaduct for a lot of it.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:29:26 -0400, David of Broadway
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

Corrections from the group very welcome, of course. Thanks to David
for teaching me what "El" means... :-)

Apparently I didn't teach you very well, since the Underground doesn't
have any NYC-style els.

Hmm. Some of the stuff in the (free! :-) ) museum definitely seemed to
imply that "el" = "not under ground", though possibly I was looking at
it with a London bias...

In article ,
_dot_uk (Recliner) wrote:

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message

In article
.com,
(MIG) wrote:

"Elevated"?

District Line through the Putney area.

From Parson's Green to East Putney mainly.

Isn't it on a (very high for an "underground" line) embankment,
rather than a US-style steel framework in the middle of the street?

Neither. It's mainly on a brick arch viaduct (steel at Putney Bridge
station, embankment around parson's Green station and sidings).

--
Colin Rosenstiel

James Farrar wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:29:26 -0400, David of Broadway
wrote:

James Farrar wrote:

Corrections from the group very welcome, of course. Thanks to David
for teaching me what "El" means... :-)
Apparently I didn't teach you very well, since the Underground doesn't
have any NYC-style els.

Hmm. Some of the stuff in the (free! :-) ) museum definitely seemed to
imply that "el" = "not under ground", though possibly I was looking at
it with a London bias...

Well, the vast majority of not-underground portions of the subway system
are on elevated structure. If you had ridden the Brighton line or the
Sea Beach line or the Dyre Avenue line, you would have seen open cuts.
Another part of the Brighton line is on embankment. And if you had
ridden the Howard Beach leg of AirTrain, you would have found yourself
at a section of the A train that runs on the surface.
--
David of Broadway
New York, NY, USA

"Peter" writes:
I've always wanted to ride on Line 6 of the Paris Metro, but on the
few times I've been to Paris been outvoted by the rest of the family!

If your family won't let you ride Line 6, then try Line 2. Its el
section isn't as long, but instead of the Eiffel Tower and the Seine,
you get a view of towards Gare du Nord from the "country" end.
Eurostars, Thalyses, and I forget what else.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Could you guys please stop agreeing?
| It's wearing me out." --Bob Lieblich

David Metzger:
incidently in NYC the locals call it a subway whether its subway or el.

This is because the original els were a *separate* system, with lighter
trains than the subway. The el sections that survive (almost all of
them outside Manhattan) were upgraded to take subway trains, and became
part of the subway system.

in Chicago its called the el whether el or subway

Actually, in Chicago they often spell it L or 'L'.
--
Mark Brader | "A colorful quilt reflecting the dispersed development
| of the nation. A sentence fragment."
Toronto | --Eric Walker

O - none

O? Overground?

On Jun 18, 5:25 pm, alex_t wrote:
O - none

O? Overground?

Circle I presume. C = Central.

U

I knew it will be something extremely simple... argh!
I would have guessed I (Inner circle), but to miss the "circle" as
O... argh!