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Show LONDON TO HAVE HIGH SPEED TUBES LONDON, Oct. 30 London will have some high speed tubes for passenger traffic after tho war if plans outlined by F. W. C Kearney materialize. Mr. Kearnoy said surveys had been made for two tubes, run mainly by gravity on tho switch block system, which would carry trains from Grlcklewood, (North London) to the Oval, (South London) in twelve minutes allowing for eleven stops; while from thee Crystal Cry-stal Palace to tho Strand tho journey would bo covered in ten minutes with seven stops. A proposal for a tube between East Ham and Woolwich would shoot tho passengers under the Thames, a journey jour-ney of half a mile, In fifty seconds. |