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size=2>I like to explore new extensions to the London Underground, although on
(anti-Olympic) principle I have so far avoided the spur between Stratford and
Stratford International on the DLR (B8-C8):</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb"><A
href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/standard-tube-map.pdf"><FONT
color=#0000ff
size=2>http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/standard-tube-map.pdf</FONT></A></SPAN></P>
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size=2><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">However,
</SPAN><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb">when
the new (embarrassingly named) Emirates Air Line </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: en" lang=EN>(cable car) </SPAN><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb">opened
on 28 June 2012 (D8), I was pretty quick to give it a try:</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb"><A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_cable_car"><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_cable_car</FONT></A></SPAN></P>
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style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb"><FONT
size=2>I see that VW was similarly keen:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-ansi-language: en-gb"><FONT size=2>“Golders Green
& Hampstead July [1907]</FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-ansi-language: en-gb"></SPAN></I><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-ansi-language: en-gb">“Last Sunday, the 6th, to be
precise [actually, the 7<SUP>th</SUP> to be precise!] I made an expedition which
seems to me to deserve commemoration. The Twopenny Tube has now burrowed as far
as Golders Green [B5]; so that sinking into an earth laid with pavement &
houses at one end, you rise to soft green fields at the other; the ashen dark
& the chill & the cold glitter of electricity is replaced by the more
benignant illumination of daylight. Indeed on Sunday there was a sky & a
sun; & the exuberant holiday making of the crowd had some excuse. Well, we
all of us got out at Golders Green ...”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(“A Passionate Apprentice” [Hogarth Press, 1990], p.365)</SPAN><SPAN
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size=2><SPAN
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style="mso-list: ignore">(1)<SPAN
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</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US>‘Twopenny Tube’ is not a mistake—the
Twopenny Tube was what is now the Central Line—for VW “was using the term in its
newly generic sense to describe the growing Tube railway” (see “Virginia Woolf
Bulletin”, No. 40 (May 2012), p.63).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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lang=EN-US><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></SPAN><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb"><SPAN
style="mso-list: ignore">(2)<SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: ">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb">What
we now call the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line opened on Sat. 22 June
1907, from Charing Cross (D5) in the south to Golders Green (B5) in the
northwest (and to Archway in the northeast)—ONLY TWO WEEKS BEFORE VW MADE HER
EXPEDITION!</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb"></SPAN><FONT
size=2><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb"><SPAN
style="mso-list: ignore">(3)<SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: ">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-gb; mso-fareast-language: en-gb">“Many
of [Golders Green] station’s original features remain intact including the
ticket hall building (albeit partially obscured), wall tiling in the subways and
staircases, and railings at platform level.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(David Leboff, “The Underground Stations
of Leslie Green” [Capital Transport, 2002], p.36).</SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=2>Stuart</FONT></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>