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		pjc50 on Sept 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Take a Look at the Crossrail Station Under Bond St... Large parts of the Tube and UK rail network were built privately before the 20th century. Most of them lost money and consolidated before nationalisation.

isostatic on Sept 17, 2019 [–]

Quite. The metropolitan railway was funded buy buying cheap land, building rail to it, then profiting from the increase in that value.

That no longer happens.

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