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| | The Cilla Rose Affair - Chapter Twelve |
 | | It was by far the most colourful tube station in London, its Central Line platforms bright with raucous Italian mosaics, abstract patchworks of musical instruments and tape decks, headphones, vacuum tubes, transistors and turntables. |
 | | There was also a map, studded with push pins: red flags for the locations of public shelters, under King William Street, Borough, Aldwych, City Road, British Museum. |
 | | There was a working mock-up of a section of tube tunnel, with a hissing, slamming, pneumatically-run track junction and a detailed explanation of what the various strings of wires represented, and which two rails were for running trains over-and which two were crawling with 600 volts of electricity. |
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