On 2015\12\29 11:15, e27002 aurora wrote:
On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 21:05:52 GMT, d wrote:

On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:25:15 +0000
Basil Jet wrote:
I notice that "Nine Elms" roundels have gone up all over the hoarding
surrounding the former Sainsburys opposite Wilcox Road.

Boris has also ceremonially started a conveyor belt from the Battersea
station site to the Thames. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcjSnzw38iI

Maybe they should have just built a two way conveyor from Battersea to
Vauxhall and then we wouldn't need the railway ;-)

I wonder if when that extension is built and the line is operationally split
in 2 whether one half of the line will be given a new name or whether it'll
still all be known as the northern line?

Logically two independent lines should have two names. Independent
from a customer facing standpoint that is. It would be no surprise if
they still exchanged empty stock movements.

If the bits that were the "Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead
Railway" remain together, the "Hampstead Line" has a good ring to it.

Sounds too similar to the Hammersmith line. While I'm here, I wish
they'd rename the H&C the Hammercity Line. Or anything but H&C, really.

Or, how about something royal? "The Queen Elizabeth Line", "The
Charles, Prince of Wales Line", or "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
Line". I suspect in every day speech these would become the QE2,
Charlie, or Duchess Lines respectively. :-)

If they want something royal, how about the Annus Horribilis Line?

TfL could celebrate a great politician: "The Cromwell Line", "The
Winston Spencer Churchill Line", or, especially the part that includes
the Barnett Branch "The Baroness Thatcher Line".

TfL could remember her own history, "The Leslie William Green Line"
(Too easy to confuse with the District), "The Frank Pick Line", or
"The Charles Henry Holden Line".

We already have a Picc line.

Please spare us anymore "and City" lines.

I'd like the one that serves Goodge Street and Chalk Farm to be called
the Fitzroy Line (yes, I did mean that, not Fitzrovia Line). I'd like
Goodge Street to be renamed Fitzrovia Station at the same time, since
every map and line guide will have to be replaced anyway. I don't think
it's a good idea to have stations and lines with the same name, because
it makes questions like "Is this the Victoria Train" ambiguous when
asked about a train heading away from Victoria, but I think Fitzroy and
Fitzrovia sound different enough to prevent ambiguity. It also starts
with a different letter to any of the existing lines.

I'd be happy for the line that links Highgate with the City to be called
the Whittington Line, although there is already a line starting with W.