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Post by snoggle on Feb 23, 2016 11:42:24 GMT
Yep the Elizabeth Line. Can't say I'm impressed or pleased. To me it's Crossrail and always will be.
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Post by routew15 on Feb 23, 2016 11:58:06 GMT
Yep the Elizabeth Line. Can't say I'm impressed or pleased. To me it's Crossrail and always will be. So Crossrail has always been the warm up name? What will Crossrail 2 be called the Charles Line? Bad call in my opinion.
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Post by snoggle on Feb 23, 2016 12:07:02 GMT
Yep the Elizabeth Line. Can't say I'm impressed or pleased. To me it's Crossrail and always will be. So Crossrail has always been the warm up name? What will Crossrail 2 be called the Charles Line? Bad call in my opinion. I spy the dead hand of a departing Mayor. He has made this suggestion before about naming Crossrail after the Monarch. I'm ambivalent about the Monarchy - can't get excited about them but neither wandering around wishing there was a gallows going spare. I just think the inevitable colloquial use of "Lizzy Line" sounds naff and unprofessional. People do change and shorten names - "Picklydiccaly" "Vicky Line" "Met" "H&C" etc etc. Some work, some don't.
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Post by John tuthill on Feb 23, 2016 12:07:32 GMT
Yep the Elizabeth Line. Can't say I'm impressed or pleased. To me it's Crossrail and always will be. Who's the sycophant who came up with that one? "The knighthoods in the post" Couldn't agree more it will always be Crossrail.
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Post by routew15 on Feb 23, 2016 12:21:54 GMT
So Crossrail has always been the warm up name? What will Crossrail 2 be called the Charles Line? Bad call in my opinion. I spy the dead hand of a departing Mayor. He has made this suggestion before about naming Crossrail after the Monarch. I'm ambivalent about the Monarchy - can't get excited about them but neither wandering around wishing there was a gallows going spare. I just think the inevitable colloquial use of "Lizzy Line" sounds naff and unprofessional. People do change and shorten names - "Picklydiccaly" "Vicky Line" "Met" "H&C" etc etc. Some work, some don't. Crossrail is not a Crossrail is clearly not a tube line, so I fail to understand why it needs a name. If it was a new tube line then it would be ok to name it the Elizabeth Line, as it would have the branding of the Underground but the name of the Queen (it would be nice if it turns out that Crossrail will be the identifying brand but the Elizabeth line is the line of the route and nothing more). What i find most ridiculous is the fact that the Shenfield Line will be called Crossrail from next year and changed to the Elizabeth Line once the full service is open, why TfL Rail is not being retained until full service makes no sense to me. The queen already has the Olympic Park, A282 bridge and one of the Crossrail tunnel boring machines (just to name a few) named after her, what else does she need? Don't get me wrong I'm not anti-royalist but I just don't see the point in naming things after the royalty.
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Post by rmz19 on Feb 23, 2016 13:00:51 GMT
So Crossrail has always been the warm up name? What will Crossrail 2 be called the Charles Line? Bad call in my opinion. I spy the dead hand of a departing Mayor. He has made this suggestion before about naming Crossrail after the Monarch. I'm ambivalent about the Monarchy - can't get excited about them but neither wandering around wishing there was a gallows going spare. I just think the inevitable colloquial use of "Lizzy Line" sounds naff and unprofessional. People do change and shorten names - "Picklydiccaly" "Vicky Line" "Met" "H&C" etc etc. Some work, some don't. 'Picklydiccaly' *catches breath* I'm eager to hear how silly it will sound in the announcements..."Change for the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Elizabeth Lines" It will sound ridiculously out of place
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Post by vjaska on Feb 23, 2016 14:35:23 GMT
Personally, Elizabeth Line doesn't work in a way that Victoria Line does.
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Post by snoggle on Feb 23, 2016 14:44:29 GMT
I spy the dead hand of a departing Mayor. He has made this suggestion before about naming Crossrail after the Monarch. I'm ambivalent about the Monarchy - can't get excited about them but neither wandering around wishing there was a gallows going spare. I just think the inevitable colloquial use of "Lizzy Line" sounds naff and unprofessional. People do change and shorten names - "Picklydiccaly" "Vicky Line" "Met" "H&C" etc etc. Some work, some don't. 'Picklydiccaly' *catches breath* I'm eager to hear how silly it will sound in the announcements..."Change for the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Elizabeth Lines" It will sound ridiculously out of place And they're going to have fun at Liverpool Street because there will be Elizabeth Line services from upstairs and downstairs in the rush hours. Same would have been equally true for Crossrail but the concept of a TfL named line like a tube line running in a main line terminal, rather than from a separate tube station, is going to take some getting used to for people - visitors and Londoners alike.
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Post by T.R. on Feb 23, 2016 14:58:06 GMT
It's a bit too early for April Fools jokes now? What next, naming the LO routes after the grandchildren?
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Post by snoggle on Feb 23, 2016 15:32:18 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 20:02:35 GMT
Will Crossrail now be called the Elizabeth Line, or will the operator be called Crossrail with the line called the Elizabeth Line so when Crossrail 2 comes out, it could be called Chelney or something like that, similar to how the London Underground works, so you have the service and trains branded as Underground with all the lines such as Victoria, Central, Jubilee...
Why has so many things lately been named after the queen, she's been around for many years so why are they only naming things after her now? I think the names is pretty decent enough though, be like all the other names, but a bit weird and a bit of a tongue twister.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 20:38:52 GMT
I think it will be known as Crossrail to most Londoners will sound weird on announcements this is the 17.07 Elizabeth Line service to Abbey Wood
Would have been better naming some of the Overground lines!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 21:29:48 GMT
Got feeling that Crossrail 2 will also know be named but intergeted into the Crossrail network and be it's own separate network like how the underground is with Crossrail 2&3 soon to be next, but I'm not pleased or upset with the name, just don't see the point of it not anti-royalist or a monarchist but still also will Thameslink be named after something else as it's similar to Crossrail plus with London Overground keen to take over all metro rail services in London including Thameslink it may have a similar thing to it or be part of the Crossrail network as it basically the N-S version of it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2016 21:32:41 GMT
Also I wasn't born back than but I'm wandering if the reaction here was similar to the one back when the Fleet line was renamed to the Jubilee.
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Post by twobellstogo on Feb 23, 2016 23:01:06 GMT
I'd have preferred boring old numbers (Crossrail 1, 2 etc.), or a Paris RER style A, B, C etc. (so, as an example, A1 Reading, A3 Heathrow, A2 Shenfield, A4 Abbey Wood) than a Tube style name. I have no objection to there being an Elizabeth line, but Crossrail I don't feel should be it...
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