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Your best ideas, please,
not "as many as you can think of".
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.11.11 - 7:01 a.m. | #
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Re Hammersmith & City, why not just drop the '&'
Rick Berej | 09.11.11 - 7:07 a.m. | #
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Waterloo & City = Witty?
SELondoner | Homepage | 09.11.11 - 7:07 a.m. | #
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Wimbledon to Edgware Road aka Wimbleware (which I quite like) = Edgdon. Or even Edgdon Road.
Rick Berej | 09.11.11 - 7:12 a.m. | #
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Not my own suggestion, but before it was opened, the Viking line (i.e., Victoria - King's Cross) was suggested as a name for the Victoria line.
Dean | Homepage | 09.11.11 - 7:27 a.m. | #
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Except the W&C is already called The Drain - not clever or witty, but accurate. :)
Edgmorden isn't too bad. Better than the odd sounding High Morden. I'm sure there's better if we ignore the end bits... Morningham Line?
Chz | 09.11.11 - 7:55 a.m. | #
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How about joining Bayswater & Kensington Olympia and having Bayken.
Barry | 09.11.11 - 8:01 a.m. | #
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"And I know I don't normally include the DLR and the Overground in tube week, because they're not tube lines".
I hate to be picky, but the "tube" lines are those which were created with a Tunnelling shield, like the Victoria.
The lines that were constructed using "cut and cover" (such as the District) are NOT *tube* lines.
C&C lines ARE "Underground", but they are *NOT* "tubes".
Brian Butterworth | Homepage | 09.11.11 - 8:20 a.m. | #
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DLR not really a tube line? Does that mean I have to give back the point I argued for an won in a pub quiz recently when I pointed out that there are now 3 tube stops with all 5 vowels? (Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich)
will | 09.11.11 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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@will: The DLR must be a "tube line" because there is a section (to Bank) that was created using a tunnelling shield.
Brian Butterworth | Homepage | 09.11.11 - 9:20 a.m. | #
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Back to the quiz...
How about, as it would cost a huge amount of money, renaming the new "Overground" as the "Elizabeth Line", as there is already a "Victoria" ?
Brian Butterworth | Homepage | 09.11.11 - 9:21 a.m. | #
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@will
the DLR tunnels under the river were also built by the "tube" method, as was the tunnel on the Watford branch of the Met and Brunel's Thames tunnel on the East London section of the Overground.
I have seen Premier and Regency suggested for the H&C (resepctively because it includes the first section of the Underground, and becuase of the architecture in the Baker Srreet/GPS area)
For the Overground, we already have Goblin: we could add Watson for the Watford - Euston route. The two halves of the orbital system - Stratford to Clapham Junction/Richmond and High &I to West Croydon/Crystal Palace/Clapham Junction are a bit harder, not least because at places like CJ and H&I the names must not be ambiguous. Perhaps Brunel Line for the ELL/SLL, after its main engineering feature? For the NLL/WLL, how about Olympic Line, as it connects the 1948 and 2012 sites (although admittedly the Central does a better job of it)
As for the DLR, the multiplicity of overlapping routes suggests route numbers might be more appropriate, e.g.
1. Stratford to Lewisham
2. Bank to Lewisham
3. Bank to Woolwich
4. Tower to Beckton
5. Stratford to Beckton
6. Stratford to Woolwich
(chosen for memorability, so that routes sharing the same track have consecutive numbers or, for Woolwich, are multiples of a common factor)
Timbo | 09.11.11 - 10:07 a.m. | #
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Eppealing line
John | 09.11.11 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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Harrow & Wealdstone to Elephant & Castle has always been, IMHO, the Hastle Line.
Audrey | 09.11.11 - 10:21 a.m. | #
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Cockrow.
Lewis | 09.11.11 - 10:40 a.m. | #
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Off topic but the original Bedford - St Pancras electrification scheme (which triggered the start of Thameslink) was generally referred to as Bedpan.
Pedantic of Purley | 09.11.11 - 11:10 a.m. | #
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How about taking the Upling line from the minster to the broadway?
Perhaps the Harrowphant line might be extended to Lewisham, but I'm not holding my breath.
If the UK becomes a republic, we might get the Stratstan and Brixtow lines.
Although there are through trains, how about the Junkjunk line for Clapham to Willesden?
Alex Gollner | Homepage | 09.11.11 - 11:51 a.m. | #
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My wife and I will certainly be using Banksham and Woolbank (or possibly Bankwich, due to its deliciousness) for our next DLR outings.
Ben | 09.11.11 - 12:21 p.m. | #
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The core part of the Central could be the Olympic-Olympic line, or Olympic for short, since it connects the sites of the 1908 and 2012 games.
Nick | 09.11.11 - 12:58 p.m. | #
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How about Wimbleminster for the District line, Bankton for the DLR, or Stanford for the Jubilee line?
Andrewh | Homepage | 09.11.11 - 1:38 p.m. | #
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The Jubilee line could be called the Bakerloo, because it connects Baker Street and Waterloo. I'm sure it couldn't cause any confusion.
Mike Scott | 09.11.11 - 1:47 p.m. | #
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Not sure if the WAtford, Northwood and baKER Street route name could be shortened any... ;-)
Audrey | 09.11.11 - 1:53 p.m. | #
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@Brian Butterworth
While striving not to be picky you should also ideally strive to be correct. Though you are undoubtedly right that the narrowest technical meaning of 'tube line' excludes cut-and-cover constructions, it is undeniably true that there is another meaning which is strictly wider in denotation.
To insist that the narrow definition is the *only* correct one is simply wrong, like insisting that tomatoes shouldn't be in the 'Vegetables' aisle, or that bananas don't actually grow on trees. Norma loquendi and all that, you know.
Larry Lard | 09.11.11 - 1:54 p.m. | #
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W.Ruislip to Ongar : WRONGAR Line ?
Paul | 09.11.11 - 3:05 p.m. | #
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Waterloo & City ends at Bank, so it's either Boo or Wank.
commonliner | Homepage | 09.11.11 - 3:12 p.m. | #
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I strongly vote for the Wank Line.
Henry | 09.11.11 - 3:30 p.m. | #
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I also raise my hand in support for the Wank line. And put it down again. And up again, and down again .. and so on .. (coat, fetched, etc...)
Geofftech | Homepage | 09.11.11 - 5:14 p.m. | #
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Some distasteful suggestions here
NLW | 09.11.11 - 5:18 p.m. | #
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Alternatives for the Victoria Line
Foreston Line ( Waltham Forest and Brixton )
Brixlea Line ( Brixton and Lea for Lea Valley which the north end of the line serves)
snoggle | 09.11.11 - 7:28 p.m. | #
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a late entrant
Metropolitan Line - Shamgate
The Circle - Hammerware or The Magic Roundabout
Peewit | Homepage | 09.11.11 - 7:43 p.m. | #
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If they split the Northern Line and extend to Battersea, we would need 2 new names, e.g. the Edgbat and Hightooting Lines...
Mikey C | 09.11.11 - 9:00 p.m. | #
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For Crossrail, how about Maidenwood (Maidenhead to Abbey Wood). Maidenwood seems appropriate too as it is going to be strapped on to the Underground. (No? Please yourselves, as Frankie Howerd would have said)
John Styles | 09.11.11 - 9:19 p.m. | #
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How about:
DrayGate = for those that remember the old Northern City line - Drayton Park- Moorgate - remember the crash - killed an old colleague
& best of all:
Cockslip = Cockfostars - Ruislip
daguerrotype - aka 'Midnight Cowboy' | 10.11.11 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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London Overground - Wat-Eus Line (What use?)
Kim | 10.11.11 - 3:18 p.m. | #
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Personally I think Terminalfosters is brilliant.
Urpert | 10.11.11 - 9:27 p.m. | #
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Hammersmity. Or Hammersmutty for giggles.
Urpert | 10.11.11 - 9:29 p.m. | #
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Bit of a late un, catching up on Saturday morning, but surely the Victoria should be renamed as the Brickwall, as long as spelling rules are relaxed obviously.
kev hennessy | 12.11.11 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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