… as it approached Platform 9 at Moorgate, the train, which ought to have been going at 15 miles an hour, was travelling at 35 m.p.h., and apparently accelerating. It smashed into the head wall of the 60-foot dead-end tunnel because, as we have seen, the Metropolitan's plans to extend the line south had come to nothing.

The work involves extensive civils and p/w since, the track has to drop from the present embankment level, some 5m above the adjacent road, to the floor level of the new tunnel [the 'cut & cover' section of which, is, I guess, about 10m below it.

The multi-touch support on the iPhone provides a series of touch events consisting of smaller, individual parts of a single multi-touch gesture. For example, placing your finger on the screen generates one event, placing a second finger on the screen generates another, and moving either finger generates yet another.

As I anticipated, we had passed right through the precipice, and were now on the farther side, and immediately beneath its beetling face.