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Picadilly was originally a fashionable item of neckwear, (lacy or pierced, hence pique') which made someone a fortune. He named his house after it, which in turn gave its name to theb street, and from that to the road junction and the Tube line.
As for sensible names for the LO routes, how about:
- Premier Line
- Heath Line
- Olympia Line (if it needs a separate identity)
- Brunel Line
- Emerson Line
- Chingford Line
- Enfield Line
- Goblin (or maybe Crouch Hill Line)
Hopefully these names are unambiguous enough to not need explaining?
East London Line
Emerson Park Line
Lea Valley Line
North London Line
Watford local Line
Ah, if only ...
The stations all do need a good lick of paint thought - something that TfL will do. Clapton in particular passing through it looked quite depressing.
dg writes: No, I've included that (as its May 2015 incarnation, TfL Rail).
I remember that when TfL took over Clapham High Street they TfL-used it (including Roundels!) in the space of a few days.
They have a bigger job with these run down ex-GA stations but from what I hear the refurbs are beginning. If you'd have gone downstairs via the ticket hall in St James St you'd have spotted a half-installed gateline...
Looking forward to "Secrets of the Chingford Line" starring the Higham Hill signal box!
There is a story of a comment in a journal at the start of the 20th century which commented on the adoption of the name "Bakerloo" for the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway which was built with American capital. "A real British railway would never adopt its gutter title"
How about LEa VallEy Lines (LEVELs)?
I was at Rectory Road today. Nothing has happened there. Nothing ever happens there.
Croydon Tramlink Wimbledon/Therapia Lane/Croydon Loop - Elmers End/Beckenham Junction/New Addington (85)?
1. running trains non-stop in order to make up time,
2. failure to tell intending passengers about alternative services ("why should passengers on a cancelled Epsom train need to know about the Hampton Court trains?" Well, duh, because a lot of them only want to go to Clapham Junction or Wimbledon),
3. the irritating announcements on departing Waterloo that the train is "due to arrive at Guildford at xx.xx". No-one going to Guildford from Waterloo should be on the stoppers - the Portsmouth Line trains are much faster to Guildford - so the only people who should care about what time it is due there are the driver (who presumably knows) and the guard (who is making the announcement).
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Among other things, I went with the idea of giving each Overground line a different colour and lettering them A-F. Props also to Geofftech for his piece on Londonist a couple of months back on the same subject for similar inspiration.
It doesn't seem to confuse anyone that the U1 in Munich is different to the U1 in Stuttgart,.
You can get quite clever with the names - the S27 in Munich was a line that joined un the S2, and (gasp) the S7....
Seems muich more logical.
I would defer to the Bakerloo logic and call the branch Uprom. Or Romster, perhaps.
For similar reasons I suggest Castlebar for a certain other line in London.
I notice the cheeky station names changes in the alternative map (e.g University College) although I don't favour Chiswick High Road for he same reasons I do not like Tottenham Court Road - it is not only much longer than the original name, but less descriptive (it is at one end of that thoroughfare, and there are three other stations which are better placed for much of its length)
I like the different colours for the Overground lines, and for the Wimbledon branch, BUT I would suggest all Wimbledon services (Tower Hill and ERd) in that colour, and different colours for the West Anglia and Goblin to make them contrast better with the nearby Central and District Lines respectively - maybe dark green for WAnglia and Metropolitan purple for the Goblin?
That is assuming that Crossrail will be shown on the tube map.
The logic of your map is not consistent. You move South Tottenham relative to Seven Sisters to be geographically accurate but at the same time have Harringey Green Lanes the wrong side of the Picc Line. You segregate out tube services but don't do the same with the North London Line or East London Line or DLR. I appreciate those other splits would make the map messy and complex but you either separate out at service level or you don't. The map is a mix of concepts and I'm not convinced it works. Sorry.
Fair comments all - I appreciate them thanks!
In the grand tradition of Underground line names being coined by users, these should be bleedingly obvious to one and all, most of all TfL.
Moreover I'd add some excellent suggestions from others:
- Emerson Line
- Chingford Line
- Enfield Line
Can I also add that it's unhelpful to the public to display maps that show only the TfL services. For example, if you want to travel from Finsbury Park to Moorgate, you would have no idea from looking at a tube map that there is a direct service operated by a different railway company.
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