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Default Derailment near White City Station

"John Rowland" wrote:

"DJ" wrote:
There's a driver on the East London line that gives
the best announcements I've ever heard on the Underground.
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Of course while he's saying all this there
is classical music playing in the background!


I hope it's not Beethoven's 9th, or people will start calling the East
London Line the Clockwork Orange.



Oh - they shouldn't call it that.

That is what the Glasgow Underground (or Glasgow Subway, as I believe it is
now officially known as) is nicknamed!



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"John Rowland" wrote:
"DJ" wrote:

There's a driver on the East London line that gives
the best announcements I've ever heard on the Underground.
snip
Of course while he's saying all this there
is classical music playing in the background!


I hope it's not Beethoven's 9th, or people will start
calling the East London Line the Clockwork Orange.


Oh - they shouldn't call it that.

That is what the Glasgow Underground (or Glasgow Subway,
as I believe it is now officially known as) is nicknamed!


Oonly doon among wee Sassenachs!

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That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes


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"MetroGnome" wrote in message
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"John Rowland" wrote:
"DJ" wrote:

There's a driver on the East London line that gives
the best announcements I've ever heard on the Underground.
snip
Of course while he's saying all this there
is classical music playing in the background!

I hope it's not Beethoven's 9th, or people will start
calling the East London Line the Clockwork Orange.


Oh - they shouldn't call it that.

That is what the Glasgow Underground (or Glasgow Subway,
as I believe it is now officially known as) is nicknamed!


Oonly doon among wee Sassenachs!




Ho ho ho, God that was hilarious...........

John, that made you sound like a complete southern English tosser!

Andy



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