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

[DJWrongspeed]

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.

Depends on your side of London, if you're in Abbeywood you'll be able to get to Heathrow in 51 mins .

 

[LeslieB]

Or Ashford maybe..

Lol. Yeah Ashbourne hasn't had trains for donkey's years.

For a moment I thought it was some strange last minute route change to HS2.

 

[newbie]

Does anyone know when they'll get round to linking Crossrail, the GWR, the Overground, the North Pole link to Waterloo and anything else they can find at Old Oak Common?

 

[salem]

Petition: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II should be renamed "Crossrail"

Seems to be in moderation at the moment

 

[Dogsauce]

Petition: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II should be renamed "Crossrail"

Seems to be in moderation at the moment

Sooner or later the tories will sell off the naming rights for Buckingham Palace, just after they've finished flogging dialysis machines for scrap.

 

[laptop]

Does anyone know when they'll get round to linking Crossrail, the GWR, the Overground, the North Pole link to Waterloo and anything else they can find at Old Oak Common?

Only when HS2 comes through, I think.

Or "the plant whisperer", as it will by then be known.

 

[laptop]

Petition: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II should be renamed "Crossrail"

Seems to be in moderation at the moment

Time for a petition? "Free the petition!"

 

[lizzieloo]

I approve

 

[tim]

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

Well you could mean Ashford Middlesex,

Or Ashford Kent

Or even Ashford Surrey which is, actually, the same place as Ashford Middlesex (1960's boudary changes made it Surrey, but it's on the wrong side of the river and neither British Rail nor the Post Office deigned to recognise the change) and anyway it's now full of commuters who would rather just be merged into Greater London and given a zone number

 

[pengaleng]

I dunno why everyones wetting their knickers over this, it'll just be called the purple line.

get some real problems.

 

[newbie]

no it won't. It's not so long ago this was last discussed in exactly the same way by anti-monarchists, and within weeks nobody was talking about the grey line, nor the Fleet line, the name printed on the maps and stations was in universal use.

 

[scifisam]

I dunno why everyones wetting their knickers over this, it'll just be called the purple line.

get some real problems.

Do you refer to the green line, silver line, etc?

 

[LeslieB]

Do you refer to the green line, silver line, etc?

I've heard it occasionally, but District, Jubilee etc is much more common.

EDIT: Calling it the purple line also has some potential for confusion with the Metropolitan Line. Officially that is magenta, but it might be too close for comfort.

 

[skyscraper101]

The trains won't look the same will they. All the mockups suggest they are going to be purple and white instead of the traditional red, white and blue.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Petition: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II should be renamed "Crossrail"

Seems to be in moderation at the moment

It appears they have rejected it because its not up to them, they redirect you to a London Assembly page

https://www.london.gov.uk/mayor-assembly/london-assembly/take-part/petitions

Oh... it doesn't work.

Surprise.

 

[pengaleng]

well yeah, I studied visual communication, so actually yeah colours all the way, blue line, light blue line, maroon line, yellow line, red line, pink line, grey line, orange line, does it matter lol

metropolitan is maroon, not royal purple

it's just a train line ffs

 

[brogdale]

does it matter lol

I've never heard anyone ever refer to the Northern Line as the black line. Misery line, maybe...but not black.

 

[pengaleng]

probably cus I see the world in colour while everyone else is just reading greyscale type. oh well

it's not worth getting this arsed about it really lol 6 pages

 

[brogdale]

probably cus I see the world in colour while everyone else is just reading greyscale type. oh well

it's not worth getting this arsed about it really lol 6 pages

Isn't black greyscale?

 

[pengaleng]

black isn't a colour, it's a shade.

 

[brogdale]

black isn't a colour, it's a shade.

On the greyscale.

 

[LeslieB]

well yeah, I studied visual communication, so actually yeah colours all the way, blue line, light blue line, maroon line, yellow line, red line, pink line, grey line, orange line, does it matter lol

metropolitan is maroon, not royal purple

It is, but possibly those two colours could get mixed up by newbies to London.

it's just a train line ffs

I agree. It still sounds a bit daft to me, but no doubt we will get used to it.

 

[pengaleng]

On the greyscale.

why is this irritating you so much?

 

[skyscraper101]

It'd be a nonsense to refer to the lines by colour anyway, not least because many people are colourblind so you'd have disability issues with so many shades of similar colours in use.

But also you'd have a naming convention which is as boring as the LA metro which does exactly this, i.e. it has a 'red line' and a 'green line' etc. - who wants that??

 

[Hocus Eye.]

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[pengaleng]

It is, but possibly those two colours could get mixed up by newbies to London.



I agree. It still sounds a bit daft to me, but no doubt we will get used to it.

doubt it having seen the VIBRANT shade of purple they are using

 

[brogdale]

why is this irritating you so much?

 

[pengaleng]

It'd be a nonsense to refer to the lines by colour anyway, not least because many people are colourblind so you'd have disability issues with so many shades of similar colours in use.

But also you'd have a naming convention which is as boring as the LA metro which does exactly this, i.e. it has a 'red line' and a 'green line' etc. - who wants that??

thats why they have names as well as colour ...

 

[pengaleng]

well you keep replying when I'm just chatting shit to take the piss, I aint invested in this

 

[pengaleng]

it's so easy to vex people about a train line, who know?