6Foot2 Posted February 23, 2016 Posted February 23, 2016 Link: London's Crossrail to be called the Elizabeth Line - BBC News http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/8DFE/production/_88405363_88404963.jpg Crossrail, the new railway which will run beneath London, is to be named the Elizabeth Line in honour of the Queen, Boris Johnson has announced. London's mayor revealed the line's name and purple logo as he visited Bond Street station with the monarch... 2
DalekSec Posted February 23, 2016 Posted February 23, 2016 Why's it purple? Supported by UKIP? Or Kilgrave?
john Posted February 23, 2016 Posted February 23, 2016 It has been purple for a long long time in honour of @Little-Miss As for the sudden re-name, its great after they have spent millions on advertising as Crossrail, stations have already got new signage for it as Crossrail such as Tottenham Court Road etc.. so what a total flop. Also will look stupid compared to other lines.... 1
Arthur Posted February 23, 2016 Posted February 23, 2016 Why's it purple? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple#Royalty
Dos_Box Posted February 23, 2016 Posted February 23, 2016 Does this mean the tube map now gets more like a plate of spaghetti?
CAM Posted February 23, 2016 Posted February 23, 2016 Signage changes aren't unknown to the rail network, happens all the time on National Rail. And Overground was responsible for entire stations getting painted in orange trim. What is awkward is the voiceovers were redone after the East London Line was canned. Elizabeth is the only line starting with a vowel. Now they have to record the "This is a..." fragment of the voiceover to "This is an...." or pedants and grammar nazis will have a rage-fit at every stop.
Norphy Posted February 23, 2016 Posted February 23, 2016 Also will look stupid compared to other lines.... What, why? There's already precedent in naming lines for the monarchy with the Victoria and Jubilee lines and it's not as if names like Piccadilly or Bakerloo sound any better.
sted Posted February 23, 2016 Posted February 23, 2016 Why's it purple? Supported by UKIP? Or Kilgrave? London underground brought to you by Cadburys dairy milk?
Little-Miss Posted February 23, 2016 Posted February 23, 2016 (edited) It has been purple for a long long time in honour of @Little-Miss Obviously! Marked my arrival to London. [emoji6] London underground brought to you by Cadburys dairy milk? Still relevant.... [emoji1] Also, I've already christened it the Liz Line. Edited February 23, 2016 by Little-Miss 2
southhamster Posted February 23, 2016 Posted February 23, 2016 Obviously! Marked my arrival to London. [emoji6] Still relevant.... [emoji1] Also, I've already christened it the Liz Line. The corgi line? 3
Arthur Posted February 23, 2016 Posted February 23, 2016 Also, I've already christened it the Liz Line. CrossLiz™.
Little-Miss Posted February 23, 2016 Posted February 23, 2016 The corgi line? *gasp* I <3 Corgis..... But I'd be devastated if I ever used it and it was full of stinky people and not cute corgis.... 1
john Posted February 24, 2016 Posted February 24, 2016 What, why? There's already precedent in naming lines for the monarchy with the Victoria and Jubilee lines and it's not as if names like Piccadilly or Bakerloo sound any better. Lizzie has a clock tower already and Jubilee isn't named after a person directly just happened to be a commemorative name, just imagining the announcements now... The Elizabeth Line has minor delays between Abbey Wood and Stratford due to a person on the track at Custom House (person being @Dos_Box for getting lost in his spaghetti map and trying to ride the circle line the wrong way round from ExCeL or something crazy ). It just seems such a mouthful and after years of calling it Crossrail everyone knows it as that and knows it as that and maps have already existed with that naming, Crossrail made sense as its a rail that X's across London with Crossrail 2 being a sister event and doing the opposite line of the X so that will be the Elizabeth Line 2 when it opens or heaven forbid the Charles or Camilla line....
Norphy Posted February 24, 2016 Posted February 24, 2016 Lizzie has a clock tower already and Jubilee isn't named after a person directly just happened to be a commemorative name, just imagining the announcements now... The Elizabeth Line has minor delays between Abbey Wood and Stratford due to a person on the track at Custom House (person being @Dos_Box for getting lost in his spaghetti map and trying to ride the circle line the wrong way round from ExCeL or something crazy ). It just seems such a mouthful and after years of calling it Crossrail everyone knows it as that and knows it as that and maps have already existed with that naming, Crossrail made sense as its a rail that X's across London with Crossrail 2 being a sister event and doing the opposite line of the X so that will be the Elizabeth Line 2 when it opens or heaven forbid the Charles or Camilla line.... While I don't approve (or disapprove for that matter) of the new line being named after ol' Lizzie, I don't think that "Elizabeth Line" is any more of a mouthful than "Picadilly Line", "Metropolitan Line", "Waterloo and City Line" or "Hammersmith and City Line"
CAM Posted February 24, 2016 Posted February 24, 2016 (edited) Lizzie has a clock tower already and Jubilee isn't named after a person directly just happened to be a commemorative name, just imagining the announcements now... The Elizabeth Line has minor delays between Abbey Wood and Stratford due to a person on the track at Custom House (person being @Dos_Box for getting lost in his spaghetti map and trying to ride the circle line the wrong way round from ExCeL or something crazy ). It just seems such a mouthful and after years of calling it Crossrail everyone knows it as that and knows it as that and maps have already existed with that naming, Crossrail made sense as its a rail that X's across London with Crossrail 2 being a sister event and doing the opposite line of the X so that will be the Elizabeth Line 2 when it opens or heaven forbid the Charles or Camilla line.... It's not that big a mouthful when you consider Elizabeth is four syllables. Meanwhile Victoria is also four syllables, Metropolitan is five syllables and Waterloo And City has six. Bakerloo, Jubilee and DLR are only one short with three syllables (and Crossrail if you use the posh English accent for announcements). Just imagine the nickname for the line they name after Prince William.... Edited February 24, 2016 by CAM
john Posted February 24, 2016 Posted February 24, 2016 It's not that big a mouthful when you consider Elizabeth is four syllables. Meanwhile Victoria is also four syllables, Metropolitan is five syllables and Waterloo And City has six. Bakerloo, Jubilee and DLR are only one short with three syllables (and Crossrail if you use the posh English accent for announcements). Just imagine the nickname for the line they name after Prince William.... We haev one for Charles ready the W&C line is his.. commonly known as The Drain and thats how his rule will go
6Foot2 Posted May 18, 2016 Author Posted May 18, 2016 Elizabeth Line on The London Underground map: Link: Elizabeth Line [Without underground network] [PDF]
dry Posted May 18, 2016 Posted May 18, 2016 I don't really think it's worthy of 'line' status. There are only 2tph to Reading, which means you've actually got to think about when you leave your desk in Liverpool Street/wherever, as opposed to the turn-up-and-go operation of all other London 'lines'. Thameslink doesn't have 'line' status despite there being many stations within the London zones.
CAM Posted May 19, 2016 Posted May 19, 2016 That's basic transport system 101. The fringes have a small number of trains but they feed into a core route which allows more trains per hour to run through the busiest sections with more passengers. In this case, Trains from Reading and Heathrow converge at Hayes & Harlington allowing for increased TPM through Central London. Once they reach Whitechapel, they diverge and serve Shenfield and Abbey Wood with lower TPM to those branches. With Crossrail the branches are also served by mainline traffic to Reading, Shenfield and Heathrow (not sure on Abbey Wood branch as it runs through the formerly defunct Connaught Tunnel).
6Foot2 Posted March 1, 2017 Author Posted March 1, 2017 Link: How did the tube lines get their names? A history of London Underground in 12 lines | CityMetric ...I can’t help but notice that this is the third time running this has happened. Victoria, not Viking; Jubilee, not Fleet; now Elizabeth, not Crossrail. Since the integration of the tube network under the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933, the city authorities have succeeded in creating precisely no new major underground railways without naming them after the royal family...
6Foot2 Posted April 2, 2017 Author Posted April 2, 2017 Link: Museum of London :: Tunnel: The Archaeology of Crossrail Free entry - open daily 10am - 6pm (galleries close at 5:40pm; closed 24, 25 + 26 Dec 2016).
elsiegee40 Posted April 2, 2017 Posted April 2, 2017 Link: Museum of London :: Tunnel: The Archaeology of Crossrail Free entry - open daily 10am - 6pm (galleries close at 5:40pm; closed 24, 25 + 26 Dec 2016). We have been. It's quite interesting as is the rest of the Museum of London there which covers the history of the docks. It's quite child friendly too
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