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The oddest thing about “The Tide” is that it follows the path of an actual “Overhead Railway” that was removed on the orders of the Dome architect Richard Rogers because viaducts “divided communities”.
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In the referred-to article, Diamond Geezer was suitably dismissive of “the Tide”, quite recently, too ….