On Aug 19, 9:31*pm, "Richard J." wrote:
Mark Brader wrote:
John Rowland:
I notice that part of Gillett St N16 has been renamed to Bailey
Place N16... unfortunately, there is already a Batley Place N16, so
there will be numerous letters sent to the wrong address over the
next 50 years.

Not if the rest of the postcode is present and is used.

Now let's talk about an Underground system that has two stations
called Edgware Road and one called Edgware, but where trains to
Ealing Broadway station are marked Ealing

Abbreviated destination blinds on the District such as 'Ealing', 'Putney'
and 'High Street' have not been seen since the retirement of R/CO/CP stock
in about 1983. *Actually there's the exception of 'Olympia' which is still
seen on D stock (both before and after refurbishment). *Also I did once see
a train of original D stock on the High Street-Olympia shuttle with the
ambiguous 'Kensington' on the blind.

As I remember, 1962 stock on the Central had "EALING BDY" and R stock
on the District had "EALING BDWY".

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,
(MIG) wrote:

On Aug 19, 9:31*pm, "Richard J."
wrote:
Mark Brader wrote:
John Rowland:
I notice that part of Gillett St N16 has been renamed to Bailey
Place N16... unfortunately, there is already a Batley Place N16,
so there will be numerous letters sent to the wrong address over
the next 50 years.

Not if the rest of the postcode is present and is used.

Now let's talk about an Underground system that has two stations
called Edgware Road and one called Edgware, but where trains to
Ealing Broadway station are marked Ealing

Abbreviated destination blinds on the District such as 'Ealing',
'Putney' and 'High Street' have not been seen since the retirement of

R/CO/CP stock in about 1983. *Actually there's the exception of
'Olympia' which is still seen on D stock (both before and after
refurbishment). *Also I did once see a train of original D stock on
the High Street-Olympia shuttle with the ambiguous 'Kensington' on
the blind.

As I remember, 1962 stock on the Central had "EALING BDY" and R stock
on the District had "EALING BDWY".

"BDY" was a standard LT abbreviation for "Broadway" up to at least the
late 1960s. I remember buses to HAMMERSMITH BDY, for example.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:14 +0100 (BST), (Colin
Rosenstiel) wrote:

"BDY" was a standard LT abbreviation for "Broadway" up to at least the
late 1960s. I remember buses to HAMMERSMITH BDY, for example.

Which, for years, I misread as "Hammersmith Boy"



--
Bill Hayles

http://billnot.com

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Richard J. wrote:

Mark Brader wrote:

Now let's talk about an Underground system that has two stations called
Edgware Road and one called Edgware, but where trains to Ealing
Broadway station are marked Ealing

Abbreviated destination blinds on the District such as 'Ealing',
'Putney' and 'High Street' have not been seen since the retirement of
R/CO/CP stock in about 1983. Actually there's the exception of
'Olympia' which is still seen on D stock (both before and after
refurbishment). Also I did once see a train of original D stock on the
High Street-Olympia shuttle with the ambiguous 'Kensington' on the
blind.

Oh i don't know, i think that's rather efficient. I mean, whichever way
it's going, it's correct!

tom

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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:31:27 GMT, Richard J. wrote:

I notice that part of Gillett St N16 has been renamed to Bailey
Place N16... unfortunately, there is already a Batley Place N16, so
there will be numerous letters sent to the wrong address over the
next 50 years.

Not if the rest of the postcode is present and is used.

Now let's talk about an Underground system that has two stations
called Edgware Road and one called Edgware, but where trains to
Ealing Broadway station are marked Ealing

Abbreviated destination blinds on the District such as 'Ealing', 'Putney'
and 'High Street' have not been seen since the retirement of R/CO/CP stock
in about 1983.

A Stock trains terminating at Harrow-on-the-Hill still display the
slightly ambiguous "Harrow".

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:58:33 +0100, asdf
wrote:


Abbreviated destination blinds on the District such as 'Ealing', 'Putney'
and 'High Street' have not been seen since the retirement of R/CO/CP stock
in about 1983.

Anybody else remember the Q stock on the East London line which always
showed Olympia - upside down?


--
Bill Hayles

http://billnot.com

In article ,
(Bill Hayles) wrote:

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:58:33 +0100, asdf
wrote:

Abbreviated destination blinds on the District such as 'Ealing',
'Putney' and 'High Street' have not been seen since the
retirement of R/CO/CP stock in about 1983.

Anybody else remember the Q stock on the East London line which always
showed Olympia - upside down?

Not on my 1971 pictures of it. See www.rosenstiel.co.uk/trains, though
the pictures could be clearer on destination plates.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Mark Brader wrote:

Now let's talk about an Underground system that has two stations called
Edgware Road and one called Edgware, but where trains to Ealing Broadway
station are marked Ealing, and Canada Water and Canary Wharf are
consecutive stations on the same line...

But which will get you from City Airport to Cyprus for a quid!

tom

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On 19 Aug, 11:56, "John Rowland"
asked - who names new roads?

All too often it is the marketing staff of building firms, leading to
road names which are intened primarily to make the houses there sound
more attractive to the least intelligent customers.
Hence the decline of the 'street' as this sufix is considered un-
trendy and the profusion of 'walks', 'crescents' and 'avenues', and
the silly tendency to towrads road names with no suffix at all, making
ordinary suburban streets sound as if they are rural hamlets too small
to have street names as such.

Jon

In message
, at
04:59:40 on Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Jon remarked:
asked - who names new roads?

All too often it is the marketing staff of building firms, leading to
road names which are intened primarily to make the houses there sound
more attractive to the least intelligent customers.

I'm not sure that's the case. The builders often give developments such
fancy names, which are then ignored by the council with much more
prosaic names.
--
Roland Perry