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Roland Perry · March 1st 14, 11:58 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 06:46:06
on Sat, 1 Mar 2014, remarked:
A former London Underground station, used as a World War Two command
centre, has been sold for £53m.
...
The money from the sale will be put back into the defence budget...

Isn't £50m about ten minutes of defence budget?

(And a hundred yards of HS2 perhaps).

This sale has to be "political" in some way, ie demonstrating that
assets are being disposed of, however relatively trivial the sum.

Far better had it been leased out at a peppercorn rate to a museum,
who could probably then get lottery money to refurbish and open it.

Why? The above ground bit ceased to be anything to do with a tube station 80
years ago. Better to take one that has been less knocked about like York
Road or Aldwych if you want a museum.

Has someone paid £53m for *just* the below-ground-level bits of the
station?
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Roland Perry