"MIG" wrote in message

On 29 Apr, 18:25, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:44:05 +0100, "Paul Scott"

wrote:
Paul Corfield wrote:

Well to be fair it all depends how you categorise things. It
depends on whether you describe the infrastructure or the service.
Mr Scott and others are quite correct that trains from the WLL
will run through to Stratford from Clapham Junction. However is it
still a WLL service when it reaches Canonbury or is it a NLL
service?

Good points. Just shows how the same question can be interpreted in
different ways. I suppose I was answering 'will trains originating
on the WLL reach as far as the overlap with the ELL at Highbury
etc. Incidentally a post in District Dave's a couple of weeks back
firmly supported the view that London Rail aren't keen on using the
line names, everthing being described in terms of 'origin and
destination' in timetables etc...

It does indeed show that. It is a pity in some respects that so many
colours have already been used up for tube lines as there would be
some merit in colour coding the various Overground lines. Perhaps
the final map will be a bit like DLR where they show the service
pattern as lines to illustrate where there are through services?

I did see the District Dave post - ISTR that it was rather vociferous
and was "telling everybody off" for using the wrong terms despite TfL
not having (AFAIK) any jurisdiction over the DD board ;-)

If you extend the question to empty stock moves though, LO trains
from the WLL will also reach the ELL (and the depot) via all sorts
of routes through South London. :-)

I think you're pushing the limits of comparison perhaps just a little
too far.
--
Paul C

Seems to me that the NLL goes further W and S than both the WLL and
the SLL.

Just following the LU tradition, whereby the Northern Line goes further
south than other lines and the Metropolitan Line goes further from the
metropolis than any other LU line.