maomao
普費斯
Haven't heard it called the dome for a decade or more (its involved in my work and I work almost within sight of it) and its always been the O2.
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maomao
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He's putting a capital letter on Tube to indicate that he means the trademarked Tube as defined by TFL. He likes rules.
souljacker
innit
Good god no. House prices are already bonkers enough without estate agents claiming that.
I'm defining it in the way that it's always been defined. And it's a part of what network? Not the Tube network, that's for sure. What it is a part of is the NR network.
I like to follow the rules of the English language you mean.
maomao
普費斯
Which rule of the English language states that the word 'tube' should be spelled with a capital letter? In particular referencing the origin of the term in referring to London's underground train network.
It has combined stations with parts of the tube network. So it isn't part of the tube network?
Er the part where the first letter of name is always capitalised. Didn't you go to school?
There are already combined NR/Tube stations. That doesn't make the NR services that run through them the Tube.
maomao
普費斯
TFL didn't invent the word tube to refer to the underground. It's a slang term invented by Londoners that. Just cause they stuck a capital letter on it doesn't mean anyone else has to. It's not legally binding.
And I'm perfectly qualified to comment on that thanks.
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
Can we get a future Corbyn government to rename it?
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
Technically the tube refers to the Victorian era style of tunnel walls that we have on bakerloo, central, Etc. Not tunnels per se. So this isn't a tube tunnel.
ETA - I see complaints that come in from the public and increasingly people are using tube to refer to the trains. Not as tube trains but just as tubes.
Er I know it's origins, thanks. And you realise that TfL have only been around for 17 years right? Official usage of the word "Tube" dates from well before that.
maomao
普費斯
There's no 'technically' about it. And we've been talking about 'getting on the tube' since I was a toddler in the 70s and I doubt that was a new usage then.
maomao
普費斯
Haven't you got a train timetable or a book of rules and regulations you can go and masturbate over?
Sea Star
have you ever explored your dark side?
Oh dear. Ok. That's how you want it, then.
Interestingly I can't find a definition for 'rail network'. But I can't see why it doesn't mean lines that share stations AND are run by the same operator.
The type of tunnel is irrelevant really as the district and met lines don't have the same kinds of tunnels as the deep lines.
The type of tunnel is irrelevant really as the district and met lines don't have the same kinds of tunnels as the deep lines.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Bit late for that - I've definitely seen adverts for places in Reading saying "London". Aimed at the foreign investor market admittedly.
Plus we have the famous London Reading airport of course.
I don't know what you mean?
The what?
London has lots of airports, and only one of those is actually in London itself.
andysays
Love and solidarity
London Heathrow and London City are both "actually in London itself", actually.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I have a feeling I may regret this, but Reading and Stansted are not London airports despite their optimistic branding. It takes forever to get from either of them to London; it just happens to be the case that the only place you'd want to go after flying to either is London. I'll grudgingly allow Gatwick, the rail link is not bad, but even that's pushing it.
Oh pardon me for forgetting LC...........
souljacker
innit
Hold on a second. Reading has an airport? WTF!?!?
maomao
普費斯
Aka a runway and a shed.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Aren't we going to call it the Lizard Line then?
I thought that was the perfect name. It will always be the Lizard Line to me.
I thought that was the perfect name. It will always be the Lizard Line to me.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
The experience is exactly as one would imagine.
souljacker
innit
Mate, there isn't an airport in Reading. There is an airfield in Woodley and one in White Waltham but there is not an airport, definitely.
maomao
普費斯
This is true. A mix up with Ramsgate? Luton?
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Whitechapel's Crossrail platforms won't be shared but they still haven't bothered to make it step free. Actually they've put in a ton of new steps during the building works and made it significantly less accessible than it was before.
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