Thread: Why did the Metropolitan Railway go to Verney Junction?
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Old September 1st 12, 08:00 AM posted to uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london
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Default Why did the Metropolitan Railway go to Verney Junction?
On 31/08/2012 10:17, News wrote:
Martin Edwards wrote:

Viz the Northern belief that the whole population from Milton Keynes
to Brighton are cockneys.

They are. They all say "Fink" instead of think. "Fireen" instead of
thirteen. Then they bust out with songs like "Boiled Beef and Carrots".

This rather makes my point, I think.

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Myth, after all, is what we believe naturally. History is what we must
painfully learn and struggle to remember. -Albert Goldman
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