HEX or Lizzie Line on Strike days

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Mar 23, 2024, 8:59 pm

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Forgive my ignorance, but I’m confused as to why it should be called Crossrail. Have I missed something I shouldn’t have?

Annoyance that a perfectly sensible name was dropped for a more confusing one. It’s a hybrid service and naming it like a tube line doesn’t make sense, plus Crossrail trips off the tongue whereas Elizabeth Line doesn’t. And Lizzie line is beyond cringe, with apologies to the OP.

As for the sycophancy that drove the name change in support a former Mayor’s ambitions for a gong, well that’s Omni territory. 😉

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Mar 30, 2024, 12:20 am

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Mar 30, 2024, 12:33 am

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Fantastic KARFA . As always FT never fails to head in directions never even considered when a thread is started!🤣

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Mar 30, 2024, 10:56 am

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But then very little of the Underground line from Heathrow to Hammersmith, as contemplated in this thread, is actually underground, so perhaps the Underground network is improperly named also.

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Mar 30, 2024, 12:40 pm

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For you it is the tube strike that creates the main problem - both HEX and the train service that should be called Crossrail

but it isn't, it is called the Elizabeth line, and people using unofficial/enthusiast names for things because they don't like the proper name are only going to cause confusion to the audience.

Mar 30, 2024, 1:28 pm

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but it isn't, it is called the Elizabeth line, and people using unofficial/enthusiast names for things because they don't like the proper name are only going to cause confusion to the audience.

indeed and the only time “Crossrail” should be used is in discussion of the history of the line and not as part of its day to day operations and directing people how to use it.

Even some of the most hardened transport nerds on some of the blogs I read have conceded that point so have stopped calling it “Crossrail” for day to day usage.

Mar 31, 2024, 3:06 am

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TfL doesn't seem to care about naming, as seen when they renamed Bond Street 'Burberry Street' and some tourists actually got confused.

This also happened when National Rail wanted to be clever on Halloween and changed the names of some stations on electronic displays to "scary" words.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone actually say "underground" to refer to the tube except in official announcements such as when they announce a "good service on all LU lines" (although by "good" they actually mean "normal" as certain parts of the service could never be described as "good")

Mar 31, 2024, 9:25 pm

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If the Underground is not on strike it is easy - Piccadily Line to Hammersmith and then the District to Wimbledon. If they are on strike I would recommend the bus as had been shown here. Without prying, you do not state where in Wimbledon you are going - It is quite a big place with Wimbledon Village up the hill or Wimbledon Park?

I have never heard of a branch of the District line that went from Hammersmith to Wimbledon. What you need to do is ride the Picadilly line to Earls Court and transfer there.

Apr 1, 2024, 1:53 am

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I have never heard of a branch of the District line that went from Hammersmith to Wimbledon. What you need to do is ride the Picadilly line to Earls Court and transfer there.

No. You need to go to Earls Court. I was muddling it up with Richmond as you will see I posted on 23rd March.

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Apr 4, 2024, 4:36 pm

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The project for many years, pretty much up to the final stages was referred to as Crossrail. Some are cross the project name was dropped, but TfL typically uses Named Lines for its services, and is now continuing the retrofit even to the various Overground lines.

Don’t get me started in the Overground renaming. They won’t catch on, it’ll be Overground to me, or carry on with “the orange line”.

I live on the Jubilee Line and lots of people I know shorten it to “the jubs” just as people still call it “Battersea Power Station station”. People who live in London tend to use tfl naming only as a springboard to more colloquial nicknames, Lizzie line case in point.

Apr 5, 2024, 11:41 am

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Just another mayor of London vanity virtue signalling project.

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Apr 5, 2024, 12:44 pm

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Just another mayor of London vanity virtue signalling project.

Yet it was in his election manifesto for the 2021 Mayoral election so has democratic legitimacy.

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Apr 6, 2024, 6:18 am

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Originally Posted by averageflyerLHR

I live on the Jubilee Line and lots of people I know shorten it to “the jubs” just as people still call it “Battersea Power Station station”. People who live in London tend to use tfl naming only as a springboard to more colloquial nicknames, Lizzie line case in point.

I lived on the Jubilee Line for many years (since the days when it terminated at Charing Cross!) and have never, ever heard anyone refer to it as "the jubs"!

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Apr 6, 2024, 8:26 am

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I lived on the Jubilee Line for many years (since the days when it terminated at Charing Cross!) and have never, ever heard anyone refer to it as "the jubs"!

Nor me!

In any event, based on arguments advanced earlier, it should really be called the Fleet Line anyway