please empty your brain below

I'll accept more than one name for each week (but only one guess each, thanks).

Sunday 11th September

TfL have a habit of opening things on a Sunday and this is the last Sunday before Westfield opens

w/b 18th Sept: (Peewit)
on the grounds that both station and westfields will be delayed a week

I'll go for the 28th of Augugst.

Hmmm, w/b 14th Aug, this will allow time for it to break just before the opening of the Westfield White Elephant...

7 August thanks.

Star Lane? Sounds a little tacky...

am i disqualified from playing? ;-)

w/b 28 Aug too, please. Wrap-up of silly season, bribe of weekend trip for kids going back to school, Boris et al home from Tuscany.

w/b 21 August - specifically Saturday 27th - gives them the whole Bank Holiday weekend to play with.

w/b 24 July, so that it is included in the one-year-to-go-to-the Olympics ballyhoo.

My choice is taken. But I'd have gone for September 1st.

7th August, Mystic Meg told me.

Damn, was going to say 24th July too, good thinking Waterhouse.

Mind you the cynic in me is searching for dates that Boris can milk maximum "credit".

BTW - I've heard that large amounts of copper wiring have een "relocated" by nefarious persons unknown delaying the opening...

CF

I'll plump for 14th August

Well my money's on October or later, going on past form

WB 19 June. More hope than expectation I confess.
But they do have a major shutdown across most of that weekend already announced - which would be the perfect opportunity to flick the switch on the control centre computers to include the new line

w/b 24 July. Up and running properly in good time before Westfield. Would tie in with the 24th anniversary of the opening of the 1st stretch of DLR too, just, fwiw.... Although I too am mystified at what has taken so long, given that most of the stations have clearly been ready for ages.

I was going to say 21 August but I'll say 17 July instead.

I'd say 18th September, with cross faces from Westfield shoppers/traders for a week.

25th September

w/b 31st July, please.



w/b 21 Aug for the same reasons as Timbo cited.

October or later.

Any prizes on offer :)

I'll take July 10th - I'm an optimistic soul....

21 August

I believe it is already open... Well, not really, but I have a random uncompleted journey on my Oyster card from autumn last year 2010 which apparently started at "Abbey Road DLR".

So if my Oyster card has been to it as an open station (no, I have not actually ever been to the station except through on a Jubilee line), and Oyster is never wrong (ahem), then it is already open, meaning my guess is w/b 1st September 2010... (Don't follow that logic too hard).

((I'll add a more likely sweepstake guess later on!))

Rich, do you know where you actually had an uncompleted journey? :P

dg: 28th August for me :)

It can open just for Westfield and then close again for 'operational engineering adjustments'.


11th September - they did it for the Shepherd's Bush Westfield.

What does "w/b" stand for? Not "westbound", surely?

11 September 2011

21st August

Thanks for all your guesses so far. Even to 'H', which has to be the least informative sweepstake name ever.

Any more? Anyone for June or early July?

OK - w/b 3rd July

I'll take w/b June 26th, only because nobody else has yet.

@swirlythingy: At a guess, w/b probably stands for week beginning.

and Oyster is never wrong (ahem), then it is already open, meaning my guess is w/b 1st September 2010... (Don't follow that logic too hard).

@Swirlythingy: Great Aunt Annie is probably right, but not necessarily:
perhaps it will open westbound only! - although I'm not sure which way counts as west.

Aha! maybe it's Westfield-bound.

I'll also go for 26th June, it is my birthday so if it opened that day I could have a ride along the line as a present!

I'll go along with DG's choice of w/b 4th Sept, just because he's more clued up than I am, so it's as good a guess as any!


As a founder member of the 'Don't believe a single thing until you see it actually running' forum, I shall be plumping for about four weeks before the bloody Olympics gets to foul all over London and the South East in 2012.

I'll go for w/b 3rd July. I'm an eternal optimist.

Sweepstake now closed, thanks.

Looks like congratulations to Barry, Karen, Daniel, Blue Witch. (Opening slated for 29/8)

Hope you didn't have other plans for the Bank Holiday DG as I'm keen to see your thoughts on the Tuesday morning!












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