They've already had one half-hearted attempt at this about 15 years ago
when Shepherd's Bush(C) was going to become Shepherd's Bush Green. As
part of this plan new enamel line diagrams at Mile End WB carried the
new name, and indeed still do! I'm not sure if it ever appeared/appears
anywhere else and it certainly never got as far as Shepherd's Bush(C)
station itself.

If we can't have two Shepherd's Bush stations where does that leave
Edgware Road, Hammersmith and Paddington?

As for confusion for people arranging to meet outside a station, this
can occur even at a single site where there are multiple exits (e.g.
Victoria).

On 31 Dec 2006 04:38:54 -0800, wrote:

They've already had one half-hearted attempt at this about 15 years ago
when Shepherd's Bush(C) was going to become Shepherd's Bush Green. As
part of this plan new enamel line diagrams at Mile End WB carried the
new name, and indeed still do! I'm not sure if it ever appeared/appears
anywhere else and it certainly never got as far as Shepherd's Bush(C)
station itself.

If we can't have two Shepherd's Bush stations where does that leave
Edgware Road, Hammersmith and Paddington?

Paddington's "two stations" are at least in the same physical building
(albeit a very big one!)

In article , james.s
(James Farrar) wrote:

On 31 Dec 2006 04:38:54 -0800, wrote:

If we can't have two Shepherd's Bush stations where does that leave
Edgware Road, Hammersmith and Paddington?

Closer to each other.

Paddington's "two stations" are at least in the same physical
building (albeit a very big one!)

I think Paddington has three LU stations.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article , james.s
(James Farrar) wrote:

On 31 Dec 2006 04:38:54 -0800, wrote:

If we can't have two Shepherd's Bush stations where does that leave
Edgware Road, Hammersmith and Paddington?

Paddington's "two stations" are at least in the same physical
building (albeit a very big one!)

I think Paddington has three LU stations.

Okay, i don't get this one. The H&C is a separate station from the rest,
i'd agree, but surely the Bakerloo and Circle platforms are part of one
station? Or do you mean something else?

tom

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Like Kurosawa i make mad films; okay, i don't make films, but if i did
they'd have a samurai.

In article , twic@urchin
earth.li (Tom Anderson) wrote:

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

I think Paddington has three LU stations.

Okay, i don't get this one. The H&C is a separate station from the
rest, i'd agree, but surely the Bakerloo and Circle platforms are
part of one station? Or do you mean something else?

I thought they had separate station buildings.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

In article , twic@urchin
earth.li (Tom Anderson) wrote:

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

I think Paddington has three LU stations.

Okay, i don't get this one. The H&C is a separate station from the
rest, i'd agree, but surely the Bakerloo and Circle platforms are
part of one station? Or do you mean something else?

I thought they had separate station buildings.

Perhaps, but there's certainly a tunnel between them!

tom

--
Hit to death in the future head

wrote:
They've already had one half-hearted attempt at this about 15 years ago
when Shepherd's Bush(C) was going to become Shepherd's Bush Green. As
part of this plan new enamel line diagrams at Mile End WB carried the
new name, and indeed still do! I'm not sure if it ever appeared/appears
anywhere else and it certainly never got as far as Shepherd's Bush(C)
station itself.

Chancery Lane (at least WB) has Shepherd's Bush Green marked on it.

If we can't have two Shepherd's Bush stations where does that leave
Edgware Road, Hammersmith and Paddington?

Well - there will be two S Bush stations - Shepherd's Bush, and
Shepherd's Bush Market. The West London Line and Central Line stations
are so close to each other that it would be counter-productive to give
them separate names. In fact, the platforms on each line are probably
closer together than those in many Zone 1 in-station interchanges.

Hammersmith is slightly less obvious but the stations are still so close
together, and there are directions from each to the other. It would be
good to add some (more prominent) publicity advising customers that
Oyster PAYG will not charge extra for the interchange.

The Paddingtons are really both part of the same complex - just at
opposite ends of it. The new service pattern on the Circle and H&C lines
will make using Paddington much easier, with passengers to/from the
northern Circle almost exclusively using the Bishop's Road (H&C)
platforms, and passengers to/from the western Circle and beyond using
the Praed Street (C/D) platforms.

I'm not sure there's much of a problem at Edgware Road. They're just on
opposite sides of the flyover, and nobody will be interchanging between
them as Paddington and Baker Street are more suitable (and marked as
such on the Tube map).

As for confusion for people arranging to meet outside a station, this
can occur even at a single site where there are multiple exits (e.g.
Victoria).

That implies that renaming nearby stations with the same name, to
stations with different names, won't reap many benefits. Arranging to
meet people at large locations in London is inherently tricky and is
just a fact of big-city life, I think!


--
Dave Arquati
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Dave Arquati wrote:

wrote:

As for confusion for people arranging to meet outside a station, this
can occur even at a single site where there are multiple exits (e.g.
Victoria).

That implies that renaming nearby stations with the same name, to
stations with different names, won't reap many benefits. Arranging to
meet people at large locations in London is inherently tricky and is
just a fact of big-city life, I think!

Ooh, one of my pet peeves: some stations have numbered exits, and some
don't. If they were all numbered, you could always just arrange to meet at
exit 1, and it would be unambiguous.

tom

--
Like Kurosawa i make mad films; okay, i don't make films, but if i did
they'd have a samurai.

Tom Anderson wrote:
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Dave Arquati wrote:

Ooh, one of my pet peeves: some stations have numbered exits, and some
don't. If they were all numbered, you could always just arrange to
meet at exit 1, and it would be unambiguous.

Interesting. I think you should send that to LU complaints department.

On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, John Rowland wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Dave Arquati wrote:

Ooh, one of my pet peeves: some stations have numbered exits, and some
don't. If they were all numbered, you could always just arrange to
meet at exit 1, and it would be unambiguous.

Interesting. I think you should send that to LU complaints department.

Might do. More of a suggestion than a complaint, though!

tom

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Civis Britannicus sum.