Subject: | Re: Chancery Lane
| Date: | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:29:39 +0000 (UTC)
| From: | "Cast_Iron" <CastIron_881@hotmail.com>
| Newsgroups: | uk.transport.london
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"Matthew Malthouse" <usenet@calmeilles.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:slrnbh7fm5.9bh.usenet@populous.netsplit.com...
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:42:42 +0000 (UTC) Cast_Iron wrote:
> } Matthew Malthouse wrote:
> } > On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:01:34 +0100 Dave wrote:
> } > } Matthew Malthouse <usenet@calmeilles.demon.co.uk> writes
> } > } >} How dare they call that station Chancery Lane
> } > } >}
> } > } >} Nowhere flippin near it
> } > } >
> } > } >177 meters from it.
> } > } >
> } > } >But it makes me curious, why did it get named Chancery
> } > Lane rather than } >Grey's Inn Road at the foot of which
> } > it stands? }
> } > } The current entrance to Chancery Lane is not the
> } > station's original } entrance - it was re-sited when
> } > escalators were installed back in the } 1930s. As I'm
> } > sure you can appreciate, lifts go directly up and down }
> } > and escalators don't - so a new entrance might have to be
> } > situated quite } some distance away from the original.
> } > This was done more recently at } Angel, where the new
> } > entrance is about 100m away from the old entrance.
> } >
> } > Haha! Thank you. I didn't know that the station entrance
> } > wasn't the original, although I should have thought of it.
> }
> } Are you capable?
>
> What is this? Jump on Matthew week?
Please, don't take such things personally. some people like jumping on
anyone and everyone. :-)
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