Oooh, a passival!

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Sleeping in the Underground

The passival is in the third picture down, one the poster with the ship - more are building, not being built. I'd heard of the passival, but I didn't realize it had lingered that long! If you prefer, you can get your information about the history of the passival and the progressive passive in podcast form here. Not all the information overlaps between those two links, but it mostly does.

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But it's inclined! That's what I find remarkable. Apparently we have some flat ones on the Underground (Waterloo was mentioned) but I've never seen an inclined one. And those ones looked steep - I mean, they looked as steep as an escalator!

That change sounds like it's probably as much fun as Bank-Monument. I love this diagram (http://londonconnections.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/how-bank-monument-works.html) which shows you the layout - and which shows there are travelators there, in fact! (I've only been on the Waterloo and City twice, both times pretty much just so we could say we had. So I don't remember it that much - I remember the platform, but not the rest.) But absurdly to find the distance you have to walk to change between Bank and Monument is really hard. Which is probably why the only place I could find it was the response to a Freedom of Information request (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/transfer_stats_between_monument)!

Once I saw the travelator, I do have to wonder whether it was that people were sleeping on rather than an escalator.