Red Rover

QT8 is a very strange name for a metro station. You don't get many stations that are abbreviations. You instinctively want to run it together to form words: cutie-eight. And now I'm thinking of when John Gardner introduced an assistant to Major Boothroyd in his Bond novels and nicknamed her Q'ute . Those early Gardner novels were weird. They uncomfortably straddled Ian Fleming seriousness with…