On 2015\01\22 13:23, Offramp wrote:

Another trivium: the Victoria Line was going to be called the Viking Line, because it connected VIctoria and KING's Cross.

Viking Line is a much better name!

On 2015\01\22 18:25, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2015\01\22 13:23, Offramp wrote:

Another trivium: the Victoria Line was going to be called the Viking
Line, because it connected VIctoria and KING's Cross.

Viking Line is a much better name!

Let's hope they never build a line from Feltham to Chingford.

In article ,
(Offramp) wrote:

On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 09:05:28 UTC, Basil Jet wrote:
Just wondering... did the person who decided that the Fleet
Line should be renamed the Jubilee Line get their knighthood?

Many people think that the Jubilee's colour is silver; in fact it is
officially grey.

Grey being the general substitute for silver when painting rolling stock. LT
discovered that silver paint didn't work very well on the R stock and
switched to grey. East Coast made a similar discovery more recently and did
the same.

Another trivium: the Victoria Line was going to be called the Viking
Line, because it connected VIctoria and KING's Cross.

When was that abandoned? My recollection is that it was authorised and
building commenced as the Victoria Line.

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Colin Rosenstiel

wrote:
In article ,
(Offramp) wrote:

On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 09:05:28 UTC, Basil Jet wrote:
Just wondering... did the person who decided that the Fleet
Line should be renamed the Jubilee Line get their knighthood?

Many people think that the Jubilee's colour is silver; in fact it is
officially grey.

Grey being the general substitute for silver when painting rolling stock. LT
discovered that silver paint didn't work very well on the R stock and
switched to grey. East Coast made a similar discovery more recently and did
the same.

Silver would be possible but very expensive for Tube maps and would give a
false prominence to what was, until the JLE, one of the shortest tube
lines.

Surely EC was trying a metallic grey, not silver? But it switched o a
very dull grey. The Virgin Pendolinos have more of a silver look, as do
some Virgin Atlantic aircraft (the airline has very inconsistent liveries).

On 22.01.15 13:23, Offramp wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 09:05:28 UTC, Basil Jet wrote:
Just wondering... did the person who decided that the Fleet
Line should be renamed the Jubilee Line get their knighthood?

Many people think that the Jubilee's colour is silver; in fact it is officially grey.

Another trivium: the Victoria Line was going to be called the Viking Line, because it connected VIctoria and KING's Cross.

Yeah, too many memories it would conjure up.

On 22/01/2015 13:23, Offramp wrote:

On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 09:05:28 UTC, Basil Jet wrote:
Just wondering... did the person who decided that the Fleet
Line should be renamed the Jubilee Line get their knighthood?

Many people think that the Jubilee's colour is silver; in fact it is officially grey.

Another trivium: the Victoria Line was going to be called the Viking Line, because it connected VIctoria and KING's Cross.


Why not Brixstow?

Mizter T wrote:
On 22/01/2015 13:23, Offramp wrote:

On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 09:05:28 UTC, Basil Jet wrote:
Just wondering... did the person who decided that the Fleet
Line should be renamed the Jubilee Line get their knighthood?

Many people think that the Jubilee's colour is silver; in fact it is officially grey.

Another trivium: the Victoria Line was going to be called the Viking
Line, because it connected VIctoria and KING's Cross.


Why not Brixstow?

There's only one current line with a made-up composite name like that: the
Bakerloo. And only one other one has a name based on its end points at all:
the Hammersmith and City.

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On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:06:15 +0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote:


Why not Brixstow?

There's only one current line with a made-up composite name like that: the
Bakerloo. And only one other one has a name based on its end points at all:
the Hammersmith and City.

Waterloo and City ?

Thanks, yes, I'd forgotten that it was now an LU line.

On 2015\01\23 22:40, Mizter T wrote:

On 22/01/2015 13:23, Offramp wrote:

On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 09:05:28 UTC, Basil Jet wrote:
Just wondering... did the person who decided that the Fleet
Line should be renamed the Jubilee Line get their knighthood?

Many people think that the Jubilee's colour is silver; in fact it is
officially grey.

Another trivium: the Victoria Line was going to be called the Viking
Line, because it connected VIctoria and KING's Cross.

Why not Brixstow?

Wouldn't Walton flow off the tongue a little easier?

In message
-septem
ber.org, Recliner
There's only one current line with a made-up composite name like that: the
Bakerloo. And only one other one has a name based on its end points at all:
the Hammersmith and City.

Except only one end point is mentioned (the other is now Barking, though
I accept it was originally Farringdon).

What about both the Piccadilly and the Central? Those names derive from
the original intended end-points (Great Northern and Piccadilly Railway
and Central London Railway). Someone has already mentioned the Waterloo
and City.

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