El sections of LU

On Jun 8, 1:11 pm, "Paul Scott" <notvalidpmsc...@>
wrote:
> "Jack Taylor" <J...@Carney.co.uk> wrote in message

> Is the OP from the USA? - their 'El's (for it is a normal american
> abbreviated usage) are typically those lines that go down the middle of the
> street on a girderwork viaduct at about 2nd floor level, with roads
> underneath -

That's right! Anyone who has seen the car chase scene in BULLITT will
know what you mean.

<davidmetzger0@> wrote in message
news:1181323698.278472.85350@q69g2000hsb. ...
> incidently in NYC the locals call it a subway whether its subway or
> el. in Chicago its called the el whether el or subway

In London the locals seem to have a similar problem, they call it all 'the
tube'...

Paul S

"Offramp" <alaneobrien@> wrote in message
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> On Jun 8, 1:11 pm, "Paul Scott" <notvalidpmsc...@>
> wrote:
>> "Jack Taylor" <J...@Carney.co.uk> wrote in message
>
>> Is the OP from the USA? - their 'El's (for it is a normal american
>> abbreviated usage) are typically those lines that go down the middle of
>> the
>> street on a girderwork viaduct at about 2nd floor level, with roads
>> underneath -
>
> That's right! Anyone who has seen the car chase scene in BULLITT will
> know what you mean.
>
Err, ITYM "Anyone who has seen the car chase scene in The French Connection
will know what you mean."
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On Jun 8, 2:59 pm, "Recliner" <nig...@clara.co_dot_uk> wrote:
> "Colin Rosenstiel" <rosenst...@cix.co.uk> wrote in message
>
> news:memo.20070608140355.2344U@a01-09-5548.rosenstiel.co.uk
>
> > In article <1181288550.679417.181...@e65g2000hsc. .com>,
> > googles...@doreenbird.co.uk (MIG) wrote:
>
> >> "Elevated"?
>
> >> District Line through the Putney area.
>
> > From Parson's Green to East Putney mainly.
>
> Isn't it on a (very high for an "underground" line) embankment, rather
> than a US-style steel framework in the middle of the street?



A brick viaduct for a lot of it.

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:29:26 -0400, David of Broadway
<david.of.broadway@> wrote:

>James Farrar wrote:
>
>> Corrections from the group very welcome, of course. Thanks to David
>> for teaching me what "El" means... :-)
>
>Apparently I didn't teach you very well, since the Underground doesn't
>have any NYC-style els.

Hmm. Some of the stuff in the (free! :-) ) museum definitely seemed to
imply that "el" = "not under ground", though possibly I was looking at
it with a London bias... ;)

James Farrar wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:29:26 -0400, David of Broadway
> <david.of.broadway@> wrote:
>
>> James Farrar wrote:
>>
>>> Corrections from the group very welcome, of course. Thanks to David
>>> for teaching me what "El" means... :-)
>> Apparently I didn't teach you very well, since the Underground doesn't
>> have any NYC-style els.
>
> Hmm. Some of the stuff in the (free! :-) ) museum definitely seemed to
> imply that "el" = "not under ground", though possibly I was looking at
> it with a London bias... ;)

Well, the vast majority of not-underground portions of the subway system
are on elevated structure. If you had ridden the Brighton line or the
Sea Beach line or the Dyre Avenue line, you would have seen open cuts.
Another part of the Brighton line is on embankment. And if you had
ridden the Howard Beach leg of AirTrain, you would have found yourself
at a section of the A train that runs on the surface.
--
David of Broadway
New York, NY, USA

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:10:27 -0700, alex_t
<atereshchenko@> wrote:

>
>> O is indeed Circle - C is taken, and O is a Circle, innit. Well, in
>> Johnston, at least!
>
>It's more like oval actually ;-)

Thermos flask. :)

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, alex_t wrote:

>> O is indeed Circle - C is taken, and O is a Circle, innit. Well, in
>> Johnston, at least!
>
> It's more like oval actually ;-)

<serious face>No, it isn't. In Johnston, the O is a perfect circle; it's
one of that typeface's most distinctive features.</serious face>

And it's nothing like the bloody C&SLR station either!

tom

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