On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Tom Barry wrote:

Paul Corfield wrote:

Wouldn't it be a complete scream if TfL owned Metronet and private Tube
Lines put in bids!?

And Network Rail? All three more-or-less creations of Gordon Brown
(given that NR was largely set up by his Treasury cronies).

Indeed. I think Mizter T's analysis that the ELL is "just a long branch
off [the LBSC main line]" is spot on, and so it would make perfect sense
for its maintenance to be done by the same body that maintains that.

tom

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