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"MIG" wrote:

[snip]

However I wonder whether it is true. If you take a look at the
Victoria line's route as marked on the central London bus map then it
is shown as passing under the Buck House garden but not the building
itself - this makes sense as the line needs to turn so as to be
aligned to run southeast from Victoria station towards Pimlico and
Vauxhall.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/buses/pdfdocs/centlond.pdf



I think the alignments in the bus maps bear little relation to the
geography. They are just showing that an Underground line links the
places. Look how they've drawn the Bakerloo, which we know exactly
follows all the kinks of Haymarket and Regent Street.

I've got no opinion on where the Victoria line goes though.


There are maps available that show the actual geographic routes of the
various UndergrounD lines. Mine for the Victoria is in a booklet produced at
the time the line was opened. It does show the line passing close to the
left hand end of the building though not physically under it. How accurate
the map is I leave to the conspiracy theorists to argue about.

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Graeme Wall wrote:
In message .com
"MIG" wrote:

[snip]

However I wonder whether it is true. If you take a look at the
Victoria line's route as marked on the central London bus map then
it is shown as passing under the Buck House garden but not the
building itself - this makes sense as the line needs to turn so as
to be aligned to run southeast from Victoria station towards
Pimlico and Vauxhall.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/buses/pdfdocs/centlond.pdf



I think the alignments in the bus maps bear little relation to the
geography. They are just showing that an Underground line links the
places. Look how they've drawn the Bakerloo, which we know exactly
follows all the kinks of Haymarket and Regent Street.

I've got no opinion on where the Victoria line goes though.


There are maps available that show the actual geographic routes of the
various UndergrounD lines. Mine for the Victoria is in a booklet
produced at the time the line was opened. It does show the line
passing close to the left hand end of the building though not
physically under it. How accurate the map is I leave to the
conspiracy theorists to argue about.

The old AtoZ used to show all this detail of the tube and other lines,
though not the PO railway.