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Old December 15th 07, 04:16 PM posted to uk.railway, uk.transport.london
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Default The Ermine strikes back - The Crossrail Saga

On 15 Dec, 13:24, Jane Sullivan wrote:
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lonelytraveller writes

On 14 Dec, 18:33, Rupert Candy wrote:
On Dec 14, 5:51 pm, lonelytraveller


wrote:
I don't see why they should be allowed to pull down things like the
buildings on Cowcross Street and replace them with some huge office
block or glassy steel windowed box; they should be forced to rebuild
it all, like at the forecourt of St. Pancras, or at least to rebuild
it according to the new design if its too expensive to reuse the same
bricks etc.


Why? Should all new trains be built to look like the Rocket?


That would be nice.


No it wouldn't. The Rocket was a locomotive, so it couldn't carry many
passengers if any, and it could be very unpleasant travelling on it at
this time of year.

You wrote "built to look like" not "built to function like". It could
easily look like the Rocket but function like a modern locomotive. And
it would therefore be nice.