"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
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Crossrail was mentioned in a speech by some nice old lady today,
apparently, so the Beeb have an article on it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/b...ts/4036327.stm

They say:

"It would allow trains serving the current Chiltern lines to run straight
into London and through to Essex."

That's wrong, right?

They also say:

"The second route would link Herts and Beds with Clapham Junction."

I take it they're referring to Crossrail 2; firstly, is that going to be
in the Crossrail bill, and secondly, is it going anywhere near
Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire? The last i heard was that it was going to
take over a bit of the Central Line, which i thought was in Essex. Or is
it all still up in the air? Is anyone even thinking about it seriously?

tom


Just the BBC being as up-to-date and accurate as ever. Te same as they are
still insisting London has *two*area codes - "0207" or "0208" - instead of
the one 020 code for the whole city again.

Next year numbers in the range (020) - 3xxx xxxx will start being issued so
we can expect a panicky item or three from BBC London because suddenly
London's codes are changing again! We will hear "New code 0203 for
London......massive upheaval of London's phone numbers again"..........
*NOT* !! (just new numbers within the 020 single code).

Never accept anything you hear on the BBC as being the gospel, their
presenters and staff are ignorant and inaccurate.

Andy