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Somewhere) wrote:

On 15/02/2016 14:28, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2016\02\15 13:09, Someone Somewhere wrote:
On 15/02/2016 13:02, Someone Somewhere wrote:
On 15/02/2016 12:06, d wrote:
I see the ELL is closed it for 9 days. I had my suspicions that it
wasn't being taken seriously as a transport link by TfL given its
slow service and poor timetable, and this rather proves it. Can you
imagine any tube line being closed for that many consecutive days now
unless there had been a major incident?

Aren't they putting in place the new concourse at Whitechapel as part
of the station rebuilding to support Crossrail? That's a fairly major
piece of engineering, which can affect other lines - look at what's
going to happen to Bank in a few years time...

And in any case, it's only really the new bit (plus Whitechapel to
Shadwell) which is shut - you can get under the river for once.

There you go - there's even a nice information sheet on it:

http://74f85f59f39b887b696f-ab656259...23.cf3.rackcdn.
com/assets/library/document/c/original/c512-xrl-z-xbu-d061-50180-whitechapel_
station_closures_february_16.pdf

(here's a shortened version of the link http://bit.ly/1QgLyAI )

Available in many different languages should you so choose!

I'd be fascinated to know why "Crossrail" is spelled in the Latin
alphabet for Chinese, Greek, Gujurati and Urdu readers, but not for
Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi and Tamil readers.

I'm thinking of ordering it in Welsh - do you think they will provide
it, as it is one of the UKs official languages? (I think it and
English are the only two)

On your other point, discussing with someone who works in
translation, this sort of thing would normally have been agreed in
advance and harmonised between all the different translations, but
that doesn't appear to have been the case here....

And why none in Farsi? Iran appears to have acquired some Crossrail trains
(as shown on Twitter last week).

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Colin Rosenstiel