Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

In message , at 09:16:51 on Sun, 2 Mar
2014, tim..... remarked:
There used to be a way to create a short link in Google Maps but
there doesn't seem to be one now (without logging in which I can't do).

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Works for me

click on the "link" button, check the "Short URL" box within the
popup dialogue

What "link" button? None here.

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The one that looks like a piece of chain link next to the one that
looks like a printer (in someone's world, anyway). They both have
"pop-up" tool tips telling you what they are for

When I click the "chain link" I get a dialogue with a box to tick to get
a short url.

Today, ticking that box does provide the shortened url as normal.

Yesterday it had no effect, with the long url remaining.

Must have been some sort of glitch.

(I'm not signed in).
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Roland Perry

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

In message , at 09:12:31 on Sun, 2 Mar
2014, tim..... remarked:

Are you logged in?

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No, I checked. It said at the upper right "sign on", so I wasn't

Mine says "Sign In", but see the message I posted a few moments ago.
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Roland Perry

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

In message , at 18:56:27
on Sat, 1 Mar 2014, remarked:
The above ground bit ceased to be anything to do with a tube station
80 years ago. Better to take one that has been less knocked about like
York Road or Aldwych if you want a museum.

Has someone paid £53m for *just* the below-ground-level bits of the
station?

What makes you think that?

Because of what you said about it ceasing to be "anything to do with
a tube station". You can't sell a tube station that isn't one any
more.

Or do they mean "we've sold a site that used to be a tube station,
but hasn't been for a long time, apart from some bits below the
surface".

Do you understand how the London Electric Railways built their tube stations
about 110 years ago?

What's so different about them?

Can we get back to the point though.

What have they sold:

a) the whole site
b) just the ground floor (in whatever way it's currently fitted out) and
below.
c) just the "below ground".

ps I'm sort of assuming they haven't sold the platform area and other
parts immediately adjacent to the line, on that level.
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Roland Perry

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

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In article ,
(Basil Jet) wrote:

On 2014\03\01 20:31, tim..... wrote:

"Basil Jet" wrote in message
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On 2014\03\01 12:46, wrote:

I would give a Google Street View reference if I could out
how to do so in the fiendish new version.

You just use the address box in your browser.

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no you don't

going from map view to steet views does not change the url in the
address box

It does in Safari under Mavericks.

Whatever. There used to be a way to create a short link in Google Maps
but there doesn't seem to be one now (without logging in which I can't
do).

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Works for me

click on the "link" button, check the "Short URL" box within the
popup dialogue

What "link" button? None here.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

The one that looks like a piece of chain link next to the one that
looks like a printer (in someone's world, anyway). They both have
"pop-up" tool tips telling you what they are for

Neither are present here. I get a picture with very few controls on,
certainly not one to print it. I've uploaded a screenshot at
www.rosenstiel.co.uk/bromptonrd.jpg I hate the new interface.

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Colin Rosenstiel

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 09:16:51 on Sun, 2
Mar 2014, tim..... remarked:
There used to be a way to create a short link in Google Maps but
there doesn't seem to be one now (without logging in which I can't do).


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Works for me

click on the "link" button, check the "Short URL" box within the
popup dialogue

What "link" button? None here.

---------------------------------------------------------------------

The one that looks like a piece of chain link next to the one that
looks like a printer (in someone's world, anyway). They both have
"pop-up" tool tips telling you what they are for

When I click the "chain link" I get a dialogue with a box to tick to
get a short url.

Today, ticking that box does provide the shortened url as normal.

Yesterday it had no effect, with the long url remaining.

Must have been some sort of glitch.

(I'm not signed in).

I don't have any "chain link" or any other link which leads to any such
dialogue. I'm using Firefox on Windows 7.

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Colin Rosenstiel

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

In message , at 11:17:48
on Sun, 2 Mar 2014, remarked:
I don't have any "chain link" or any other link which leads to any such
dialogue. I'm using Firefox on Windows 7.

In Google Maps, under the Multicoloured Google logo what do you see?

I have buttons for "Get Directions", "My places" then printer icon
chain icon.
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Roland Perry

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
11:17:48 on Sun, 2 Mar 2014, remarked:
I don't have any "chain link" or any other link which leads to any such
dialogue. I'm using Firefox on Windows 7.

In Google Maps, under the Multicoloured Google logo what do you see?

I have buttons for "Get Directions", "My places" then printer icon
chain icon.

No Multicoloured Google logo at all. Did you see the screenshot I posted?

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Colin Rosenstiel

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

In message , at 17:49:21
on Sun, 2 Mar 2014, remarked:
I don't have any "chain link" or any other link which leads to any such
dialogue. I'm using Firefox on Windows 7.

In Google Maps, under the Multicoloured Google logo what do you see?

I have buttons for "Get Directions", "My places" then printer icon
chain icon.

No Multicoloured Google logo at all. Did you see the screenshot I posted?

I have now. I've not seen that alternative skin. Does it have any "link"
function at all, or just an "unshortened link"?
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Roland Perry

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

On 01/03/2014 09:49, Offramp wrote:
On Friday, 28 February 2014 13:12:31 UTC, Recliner wrote:
From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26382658



A former London Underground station, used as a World War Two command

centre, has been sold for £53m.
...
The money from the sale will be put back into the defence budget...


Isn't £50m about ten minutes of defence budget?

Nope - almost exactly 12 hours

Brompton Road Tube station sold for £53m
 

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
17:49:21 on Sun, 2 Mar 2014, remarked:
I don't have any "chain link" or any other link which leads to any
such dialogue. I'm using Firefox on Windows 7.

In Google Maps, under the Multicoloured Google logo what do you see?

I have buttons for "Get Directions", "My places" then printer icon
chain icon.

No Multicoloured Google logo at all. Did you see the screenshot I posted?

I have now. I've not seen that alternative skin. Does it have any
"link" function at all, or just an "unshortened link"?

Apparently not, hence my question. That lack is not the only annoyance from
the new format.

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Colin Rosenstiel