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GOWM calls for Tube Stations


GOWM - the Government Office for the West Midlands appears to be calling for Tube Stations. This comes from their performance framework for the Strategic Partnership which refers to having Police Officers at Tube Stations.

One presumes, therefore, to have police officers at tube stations we need to actually have tube stations and if we are going to have tube stations we should logically also have a tube to go with them (Although Curzon St Railway Station has no Railway .... now).

On the other hand it could simply be that a document for the West Midlands has been copied from a document for London.

These things happen.

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