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Basil Jet wrote:
On 2016\01\01 09:50, e27002 aurora wrote:
On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 20:23:11 +0000, BevanPrice
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On 29/12/2015 11:15, e27002 aurora wrote:
On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 21:05:52 GMT,
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On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:25:15 +0000
Basil Jet wrote:
I notice that "Nine Elms" roundels have gone up all over the
hoarding surrounding the former Sainsburys opposite Wilcox Road.

Boris has also ceremonially started a conveyor belt from the
Battersea station site to the Thames.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcjSnzw38iI

Maybe they should have just built a two way conveyor from Battersea
to Vauxhall and then we wouldn't need the railway ;-)

I wonder if when that extension is built and the line is
operationally split in 2 whether one half of the line will be given
a new name or whether it'll still all be known as the northern line?

Logically two independent lines should have two names. Independent
from a customer facing standpoint that is. It would be no surprise
if they still exchanged empty stock movements.

If the bits that were the "Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead
Railway" remain together, the "Hampstead Line" has a good ring to it.

Or, how about something royal? "The Queen Elizabeth Line", "The
Charles, Prince of Wales Line", or "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
Line". I suspect in every day speech these would become the QE2,
Charlie, or Duchess Lines respectively. :-)

TfL could celebrate a great politician: "The Cromwell Line", "The
Winston Spencer Churchill Line", or, especially the part that
includes the Barnett Branch "The Baroness Thatcher Line".


That last one would probably make half the passengers want to
puke.......

You are believing your own leftist propaganda. Allow me to paint a
more realistic pictu
More than half of the potential users of the route just would not
care. Sad, but welcome to the modern apathetic world.

A healthy number would be happy to see the Iron Lady so honored.

A boisterous left wing minority would make a lot of obscene fuss. They
would use the methods at their disposal, vandalism, graffiti et al.
This says more about them than the great lady.


LU would be stupid to use a name which would obviously attract
graffiti.


Exactly. Better never to name lines after politicians, or better still,
people at all. I'd no more want a Thatcher line than a Livingstone line
(ignoring his extremist politics for a moment, the latter probably did
more to help LU than most politicians).

And apart from the Victoria line, which is really named after Victoria
station, rather than the queen herself, that's long been the tradition.
Far better to have anodyne, vaguely geographic names.


In fact the creation of new names in modern times has been pretty
unimaginative. Look at those created in my lifetime, Victoria, Jubilee
(originally Fleet), Hammersmith & City and Crossrail. I think that Fleet
would have been a better name, especially as there have been 2 more jubilees
since Horace Cutler decided on the name.

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In fact the creation of new names in modern times has been pretty
unimaginative. Look at those created in my lifetime, Victoria, Jubilee
(originally Fleet), Hammersmith & City and Crossrail. I think that
Fleet would have been a better name, especially as there have been 2
more jubilees since Horace Cutler decided on the name.

Victoria is a fine name for a fine piece of infrastructure. It is of
the few good things to come out of the 1960s.

The name Jubilee, as I am sure you are aware, long predates its
British utilization. Better than name the route after a sewer.

Hammersmith and City is an artificial renaming of part of the
Metropolitan, and is very awkward.

Who knows what the completed Crossrail will be called. Meanwhile
Crossrail is not bad.


You didn't read what I wrote very carefully. I said the names were
unimaginative, not necessarily bad. For the record I don't think Victoria
or jubilee are bad names. I think Cross rail is still because many tube
lines could be called crossrail.


Point taken councillor.


Not a councillor since 2014. I'm just a pensioner these days.

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On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 07:35:51 -0600,
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In article ,

(e27002 aurora) wrote:

On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:17:32 -0600,

wrote:

In article ,

(e27002 aurora) wrote:

On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 04:37:11 -0600,

wrote:

In fact the creation of new names in modern times has been pretty
unimaginative. Look at those created in my lifetime, Victoria, Jubilee
(originally Fleet), Hammersmith & City and Crossrail. I think that
Fleet would have been a better name, especially as there have been 2
more jubilees since Horace Cutler decided on the name.

Victoria is a fine name for a fine piece of infrastructure. It is of
the few good things to come out of the 1960s.

The name Jubilee, as I am sure you are aware, long predates its
British utilization. Better than name the route after a sewer.

Hammersmith and City is an artificial renaming of part of the
Metropolitan, and is very awkward.

Who knows what the completed Crossrail will be called. Meanwhile
Crossrail is not bad.

You didn't read what I wrote very carefully. I said the names were
unimaginative, not necessarily bad. For the record I don't think Victoria
or jubilee are bad names. I think Cross rail is still because many tube
lines could be called crossrail.


Point taken councillor.


Not a councillor since 2014. I'm just a pensioner these days.


So, under the UK tradition you do not retain the title after your term
in office?

US tradition is slightly more familiar to me. Certain titles,
President, Congressman, Judge, remain with the holder after his term

Strictly speaking there are five living men who should be addressed as
"Mr President". Of, course only one of them is currently serving his
term.
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In message , at 10:59:02 on
Fri, 1 Jan 2016, e27002 aurora remarked:

Who knows what the completed Crossrail will be called.


It could well be merged into the Overground brand.

Meanwhile Crossrail is not bad.


Thameslink has clung on, despite attempts to name it stupid things like
First Capital Connect.
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On 01/01/2016 11:37, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 10:59:02 on
Fri, 1 Jan 2016, e27002 aurora remarked:

Who knows what the completed Crossrail will be called.


It could well be merged into the Overground brand.


It's going to be called Crossrail. It has it's own purple roundel.
http://www.londonreconnections.com/2013/crossrail-gets-its-roundel/

(The interim "TfL Rail" brand was created for the Shenfield service
before it later becomes Crossrail, rather than it also being branded
London Overground.)


Meanwhile Crossrail is not bad.


Thameslink has clung on, despite attempts to name it stupid things like
First Capital Connect.


Thameslink remained the name of part of the FCC service.
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In message , at 10:52:53 on Mon, 11 Jan
2016, Mizter T remarked:

Who knows what the completed Crossrail will be called.


It could well be merged into the Overground brand.


It's going to be called Crossrail. It has it's own purple roundel.


Elizabeth Line.

http://www.londonreconnections.com/2013/crossrail-gets-its-roundel/


They obviously changed their mind at some point in the last three years.
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