WTF? Mayor announces that Crossrail is to be known as the Elizabeth Line

[laptop]

I think I might forgo any clever names and just call it the Purple Line.

*Royal* Purple Line, please!

 

[Artaxerxes]

We should organise a day of going around plastering Crossrail on the tube signs when it opens up.

 

[Pickman's model]

Whatever the official name it'll be 'crossrail' or just 'the new line' for a long time to come I suspect.

the boris johnson memorial tunnel

 

[tim]

I had assumed that he would have plumped for the Livingstone Line, thereby setting a precedent for the inevitable renaming of Crossrail 2.

 

[Sea Star]

The main problem I can see is that by naming everything after Royals, in particularl I'm talking about hospitals, is I can never remember where they are.

Bus announcement: "this bus terminates at Queen Elizabeth Hospital" ... I have no fecking idea where I'm going to end up
Wheras: "this bus terminates at Woolwich hospital"... ahhh, fuck, better get off now then....

 

[Sea Star]

I had assumed that he would have plumped for the Livingstone Line, thereby setting a precedent for the inevitable renaming of Crossrail 2.

The Sadiq line?

 

[krtek a houby]

Elizabeth Line sounds very exclusive, very elite. WASPish, dare I say it?

 

[Pickman's model]

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[tim]

The Sadiq line?

That or the Zac Line would have been Crossrail 3.

They run tube trains on the Isle of Wight, on a line that's due for refranchising. Why not change the route colour to white ( a clever little word pun) and rename it the Osborne Line (in recognition, naturally, of Queen Victoria's eponymous island home)

 

[Sea Star]

That or the Zac Line would have been Crossrail 3.

They would have skipped Boris imo

 

[skyscraper101]

I predict that despite all our malcontent right now, come the time it opens everyone will just call it the Elizabeth line.

 

[Sea Star]

I predict that despite all our malcontent right now, come the time it opens everyone will just call it the Elizabeth line.

Most of us will probably keep calling it Crossrail tbh.

 

[Pickman's model]

read that as rude esplanade

 

[skyscraper101]

Most of us will probably keep calling it Crossrail tbh.

Sure but eventually most people will forget it was ever called 'Crossrail' and the Elizabeth line' will just be part of the tube travel lexicon. Like how nobody says 'Millennium Dome' anymore.

 

[Sea Star]

Sure but eventually most people will forget it was ever called 'Crossrail' and the Elizabeth line' will just be part of the tube travel lexicon. Like how nobody says 'Millennium Dome' anymore.

I still call it the Millennium Dome

See also, Post Office Tower & Nat West Tower

 

[skyscraper101]

I still call it the Millennium Dome

See also, Post Office Tower & Nat West Tower

My mum still says Post Office Tower

She also calls the cinema 'The Pictures' much to my amusement.

 

[Sue]

My mum still says Post Office Tower

She also calls the cinema 'The Pictures' much to my amusement.

I call the cinema the pictures. Or even the flicks.

 

[skyscraper101]

I call the cinema the pictures. Or even the flicks.

You also have the same name as my mum

 

[souljacker]

Hang on a sec, what are the millenium dome and the post office tower actually called then?

 

[souljacker]

What is so good about Crossrail anyway? It will still be quicker to get from Reading to Paddington by GWR than by Crossrail. It sounds shit to me.

 

[skyscraper101]

What is so good about Crossrail anyway? It will still be quicker to get from Reading to Paddington by GWR than by Crossrail. It sounds shit to me.

I suppose the attraction is if you live anywhere between Reading and Paddington, not having to change trains, more frequency, and a 10% capacity increase on the rest of the tube network within London.

 

[Sue]

You also have the same name as my mum

Busted.

 

[souljacker]

if you live anywhere between Reading and Paddington,

Oh yeah, I forgot about all those people.

 

[Sea Star]

What is so good about Crossrail anyway? It will still be quicker to get from Reading to Paddington by GWR than by Crossrail. It sounds shit to me.

Will help get people off some of the other lines - make things a bit less congested for a few weeks before they get rammo again.

Oh, and will probably be a lot faster for people to travel east from London with proper joined up services and everything. You inner Londoners are spoilt!!

 

[ViolentPanda]

It can't be called 'Crossrail' because a cross is a Christian thing and we all know Christianity has been BANNED in Londinistan or something, right kids? </madmel>

I was pondering this as I passed through Charing Pentacle this morning.

 

[LeslieB]

I suppose the attraction is if you live anywhere between Reading and Paddington, not having to change trains, more frequency, and a 10% capacity increase on the rest of the tube network within London.

Yes, and the Reading to Paddington section is one of the most crowded bits of the National Rail network.

Basically this whole project is first and foremost about *capacity*. It does open up some new journeys, and speeds up some others, but it's mostly about adding a bit of breathing space to London's transport networks.

 

[maomao]

What is so good about Crossrail anyway? It will still be quicker to get from Reading to Paddington by GWR than by Crossrail. It sounds shit to me.

I'll be able to get to Heathrow in 62 minutes (+8 minute walk) which would be great if I ever flew anywhere.

 

[Lord Camomile]

I predict that despite all our malcontent right now, come the time it opens everyone will just call it the Elizabeth line.

Sure but eventually most people will forget it was ever called 'Crossrail' and the Elizabeth line' will just be part of the tube travel lexicon. Like how nobody says 'Millennium Dome' anymore.

Yup, gotta agree with this ultimately.

Is there a name for that phenomenon/concept, where a change is split between generations but dies out as more people are born into the new generation? Where the thing changed to becomes the new norm?

 

[Cid]

Hang on a sec, what are the millenium dome and the post office tower actually called then?

The Post Office Tower is the BT tower. The Millennium dome is the 02 Arena. To people who didn't grow up in London.

 

[dendrite]

The Post Office Tower is the BT tower. The Millennium dome is the 02 Arena. To people who didn't grow up in London.

It's all so grimly deterministic. To 32 year olds who moved to London to go to uni, the BT tower is the BT tower and the 02 arena is the Millenium dome.