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There's a precedent for this, you know. The Jubilee line should be called the Bakerloo line, because it also connects Baker Street and Waterloo.
Mike Scott | 12.12.09 - 8:11 a.m. | #
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I'd propose
Circle -> Hammersmith & Circle line
Hammersmith & City -> Regent line
PG | 12.12.09 - 10:47 a.m. | #
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Within London Underground, the two lines are merged (they have the same management, trains and staff) and they are known as the Hammersmith and Circle line. The General Manager of the line would like them to merged in the "customer facing" realm, so maybe some years down the line when LU and the public sector in general have money again, the name will change to that for both, with Plaistow being a branch line off the H&C Main.
Chris | 12.12.09 - 12:28 p.m. | #
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Isn't it actually the "Circle & Hammersmith Line" internally?
Kim | 12.12.09 - 3:09 p.m. | #
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There's considerable logic in merging the two services as the "Hammersmith & Circle".
But, hmmm, what colour would it be?
diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.12.09 - 4:04 p.m. | #
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Kim: yes, you're right!
Chris | 12.12.09 - 5:46 p.m. | #
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Of course, now the Circle line will have proper termini, the name will be even less accurate. Real circles don't have beginnings and ends.
Andrewh | 12.12.09 - 6:39 p.m. | #
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If these changes go t*** up, then I doubt the current senior manager will be there long anyway, let alone be in a position to rename the line in the future.
Kim | 13.12.09 - 3:21 p.m. | #
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I thought the "City" part of Waterloo and City came from the old name of the station now forming platforms 7 & 8 at Bank station. Although one could argue that the "City" branch of the Northern line comes from it passing through the City of London, it is also known as the Bank branch, implying that it takes it's name from the station. The other branch is the "Charing Branch" rather than the "Westminster " branch, presumably because it passes through Charing station rather than because it is mostly within the City of Westminster.
Hence is it a rule of thumb that the naming of a line, if named after stations, should follow that of stations it passes though, rather than districts or regions? So, it should be Hammersmith and Barking. Or I do like the Regent Line suggestion.
Personally, I'd scrap the H&C and turn the Metropolitan line from Aldgate to go up the Barking Branch, with a view to linking Aldgate and Aldgate East by foot-tunnel at some point in the future.
Audrey | 14.12.09 - 10:39 a.m. | #
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I've just realised that if they ran the Metropolitan line to Barking instead of Aldgate, it could, in the style of the Bakerloo line, be called the Harrowing line.
Audrey | 14.12.09 - 11:46 a.m. | #
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