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Old January 12th 05, 05:36 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Arthur Figgis Arthur Figgis is offline
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Default Red buses
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:38 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Peter Beale) wrote:

They're not tubes - they are cut-and-cover ("tube" traditionally describes
the trains using the deep-level bored tube lines, not those like the Met and
District built by scooping out a trough and subsequently covering it up).

I think tube/subsurface has long since gone the same way as less/fewer
and have/of...
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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK
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