On 26/12/2014 21:46, wrote:
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Dolbear) wrote:

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On 26.12.14 19:18, Peter Able wrote:
On 25/12/2014 21:31, eastender wrote:
Nice piece in the Christmas Economist on Charles Yerkes, "an American
financier and ex-convict" who extended/built several Tube lines.



http://www.economist.com/news/christ...ision-and-cunn
ing-unknown-american-changed-shape

I thought this to be just a light pastiche - until I read:

"Large Victorian houses clustered in places such as Clapham Junction,
a south London neighbourhood home to a railway terminus since 1863."

Article also written by a 'Merkin, clearly.

ITYM "once over lightly" not pastiche

The intent was to be interesting to those (including Americans) who
know of London and Windsor and that's all.

The sub-editor should have looked up Wiki though - I take it CJ was
never a terminus ?

You take it right. Nine Elms was the terminus before Waterloo.


Well, I guess that it was a sort of terminus as far as the broad gauge
was concerned - but, really!

And, yes, I meant pastiche, Mike.

PA