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

[souljacker]

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

That's just branding though isn't it? Like the fa cup being called the Emirates FA Cup. People don't actually refer to them in that way surely?

 

[twentythreedom]

read that as rude esplanade

The Ryde - Southsea hovercraft is the world's only remaining commercial service of its kind

 

[scifisam]

That's just branding though isn't it? Like the fa cup being called the Emirates FA Cup. People don't actually refer to them in that way surely?

I'd just say the Dome, maybe Millennium Dome. "The O2" sounds like I'm referring to the company and it might well change in the future anyway, like the London Eye has.

 

[brogdale]

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

To many of us that is, and will always be, the GPO Tower.

 

[bi0boy]

I was five when I first remember talking about it and remember my grandma calling it the post office tower and my dad saying no, it's the telecom tower now, so that's what I've always called it.

 

[brogdale]

I was five when I first remember talking about it and remember my grandma calling it the post office tower and my dad saying no, it's the telecom tower now, so that's what I've always called it.

Grandma

 

[Hocus Eye.]

The official name may be one thing but me and some friends will call it the Bob Crow Memorial line. Perhaps the RMT could help us with this.

 

[tim]

I was five when I first remember talking about it and remember my grandma calling it the post office tower and my dad saying no, it's the telecom tower now, so that's what I've always called it.

The Post Office Tower of London

 

[William of Walworth]

The Ryde - Southsea hovercraft is the world's only remaining commercial service of its kind

I risk being out of date, but I thought? the Portsmouth Harbour to Ryde Pier Head service, the passenger-only-no-vehicles one, was also hovercraft .... ??

 

[William of Walworth]

PS to the above ....

read that as rude esplanade

The first time ever time that I bought a ticket to Ryde (Sept 2007), I'd only just met former Ryde resident festivaldeb.

So back then, your misapprehension could not have been more accurate!

 

[krtek a houby]

I'd just say the Dome, maybe Millennium Dome. "The O2" sounds like I'm referring to the company and it might well change in the future anyway, like the London Eye has.

Or the Point Depot

 

[A380]

Are the trains going to have air con? If not it'll soon be called the Sweaty Betty in summer.

 

[NoXion]

Are the trains going to have air con? If not it'll soon be called the Sweaty Betty in summer.

Betty Swollocks

 

[LeslieB]

Are the trains going to have air con?

Given the billions that are being spent, you would have hoped so.

ETA, it would seem they are

Over 200 metres long, providing space for up to 1,500 passengers

 

[SpookyFrank]

And yet there's still no money to complete electrification of lines in the north of England, or to replace their decrepit rolling stock.

If your shiny new 64 billion pound train line being given a stupid name is your biggest problem, I humbly suggest you stop moaning and fuck off

 

[LeslieB]

^^ The man has a point, does he not?

 

[doddles]

So will there be chemtrails in Crossrail?

Only when the toilets back up.

 

[Jay Park]

And yet there's still no money to complete electrification of lines in the north of England, or to replace their decrepit rolling stock.

If your shiny new 64 billion pound train line being given a stupid name is your biggest problem, I humbly suggest you stop moaning and fuck off

Standard of trains has if anything regressed, what with First Trans-Penine having substituted their newest ( yet stll a decade old ) trains with older ones and many Northern Trains inadequately heated. Still a fucking dear doo though....

 

[newbie]

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.

but when was the last time anybody anywhere referred to the Fleet Line?

 

[tim]

And yet there's still no money to complete electrification of lines in the north of England, or to replace their decrepit rolling stock.

If your shiny new 64 billion pound train line being given a stupid name is your biggest problem, I humbly suggest you stop moaning and fuck off

The Northerners shouldn't get too chippy about this as we're spending vast amounts demolishing most of Camden and despoiling acres of countryside in the South of England just to provide them with a high- speed link with somewhere actually worth going to.

 

[LeslieB]

The Northerners shouldn't get too chippy about this as we're spending vast amounts demolishing most of Camden and despoiling acres of countryside in the South of England just to provide them with a high- speed link with somewhere actually worth going to.

As a northerner who really likes London, indeed was seriously considering living there a decade or so ago, those sort of comments really get my goat.

Manchester isn't worth going to? Nor Leeds? The beautiful Peak District or the North York Moors?

I do realise these comments don't represent the views of most Londoners, but great city life and beautiful countryside aren't just found in one corner of the country.

 

[LeslieB]

Only when the toilets back up.

No toilets on crossrail I'm afraid It'll be like any other tube train, just newer and shinier.

 

[SpookyFrank]

demolishing most of Camden

Not a moment too soon.

 

[alsoknownas]

the queen scabbing on the victoria line

That Yardley ad seems to be riffing on the kind of pedo-shaming graffiti that used to be around back in the day.

 

[SpookyFrank]

...and despoiling acres of countryside in the South of England just to provide them with a high- speed link with somewhere actually worth going to.

Or, looking it another way, to help expand the commuter belt even further, swallowing up more and more countryside and hollowing out more towns that used to be actual towns. Look at places like Ashford since they got high speed trains out there.

If we were investing in jobs and infrastructure nationwide instead of just in London, we wouldn't need to keep finding new ways to funnel everyone and his mum into central London every morning.

 

[SpookyFrank]

And I still call the BT tower the 'high-fallutin' future stalk' and fully intend to continue doing so.

 

[bi0boy]

Or, looking it another way, to help expand the commuter belt even further, swallowing up more and more countryside and hollowing out more towns that used to be actual towns. Look at places like Ashbourne since they got high speed trains out there.

If we were investing in jobs and infrastructure nationwide instead of just in London, we wouldn't need to keep finding new ways to funnel everyone and his mum into central London every morning.

It's not lack of infrastructure that means people and companies don't want to work in Ashbourne.

 

[LeslieB]

Ashbourne?

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Why couldn't they name it after someone actually relevant to rail/engineering like Telford, Stephenson or Brunel? Blatant sucking up to the royals who never even use the tube unless its for a PR opportunity. Load of bollocks, as usual.

Exactly, given that Brunel Snr & Jnr built the first major underground tunnel theirs would be the obvious choice. It's also the sort of grand project that Brunel would have come up with. We already have Jubilee & Victoria and loads of other lizzy stuff everywhere. I'm sticking with Crossrail.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Or Ashford maybe. That godless shithole of a dormitory town, you know the one I mean.