Thameslink could be called the 18 year late line!
Strangely enough, although I am a monarchist, I too am against the name.
A bit too sycophantic for my taste.
It doesn't roll off the tongue in quite the same way Victoria does, really. Curious to know what the Overground lines are being named though.
The Fergie line?
Plus, not a lot of colours left for the map. Maybe they'll re-use existing colours but with two thin lines or some other magic idea. They could re-use Piccadilly blue for the East London Line as they don't cross, Circle yellow for the North London Line and Bakerloo Brown for the Goblin maybe.
The Fergie line?
I'm not sure a Charlie Line would go down well in marketing terms
oh it's total Order of the Brown Nose stuff from Johnson
Absolutely.
It's vomit inducing stuff, just like the extremely expensive Boris vanity project of a new routemaster bus.
It's not an London underground line and doesn't need naming as such, though use of term 'crossrail' was useful as pretty much everyone in London and many outside know what it is.
There are plenty of mainline stations already integrated with tube stations for connection purposes but those tube stations, line Wimbledon, richmond etc aren't subsumed under the tube brand, each part either lul or TOC does it own managing and branding.Err, the central stations will be integrated with, and managed by, LUL.
There are plenty of mainline stations already integrated with tube stations for connection purposes but those tube stations, line Wimbledon, richmond etc aren't subsumed under the tube brand, each part either lul or TOC does it own managing and branding.
I'm not sure who manage the crossrail core stations, but I'm pretty sure that operational control of the crossrail railway will remain with crossrail and not be part of lul's operational controllers remit, but happy to be shown evidence otherwise.
is difficult to understand?the central stations will be integrated with, and managed by, LUL.
I don't really mind it being named, but what annoys me is how they've apparently decided to use roundels.
Outside the stations there will be purple roundels with "Elizabeth Line" on the centre bar, as shown here, which no other TfL service does, they use the service type (Tube, Overground, Busses, etc.) in the roundels outside the stations and the station name on the platforms. I can't recall any roundels ever having line names in them.
I would be fine with the new network being called Crossrail (much like the RER in France) and the lines getting names, but the roundels would still need to say Crossrail in that case.
It's not consistent. This frustrates me.
I'm not much of a fan of "Elizabeth Line", but I quite like what London Reconnections came up with as a nickname "the QE Tube".
It's going to be called The Lizzy isn't it?
"Lets get the Lizzy to Tottenham Court Road and change there". Wonder if it will get used for the On Network parts of Crossrail as well?
The busy lizzy, the sweaty Betty
Electrification of Paddington Platform 14 this Easter has been abandoned. The effects of the electrification on the adjacent LU lines has not been adequately assessed.
Will it be done after adequate assessment?
I thought Betty too, but then could not get the image of Michael Crawford's character out of my head. I am certain that is what Londoners will call it.
The H&C runs alongside the same AC railway just outside the station, it surely can't require a totally different technical solution within the area of the platforms?
The buffer stops on 14 will be closer to the H&C so any over-run is likely to obstruct it, this means a track circuit interrupter has to be fitted which must be integrated with the H&C signalling system. The electrification will be for a 12ka railway AT system, the current system is a 6ka system so the potential fault current is very different. The effect of this has yet to be assessed.