On Sun, 1 Sep 2019 12:40:32 +0100, MissRiaElaine
wrote:

On 31/08/2019 23:00, Recliner wrote:
MissRiaElaine wrote:

Sorry, to me it always has been and always will be the Underground.

That's the official historic name, but it's not what Londoners call it.
Only someone who doesn't know London would call it that.

Sorry, wrong. I was born in Romford and grew up in Barkingside. I only
moved up here when I got married, after a brief stint in the Midlands.
So don't tell me I don't know London.

The official historic name is good enough for me.

If you want official historic names, why pick the arbitrary
Underground name? It wasn't the original name for the lines, and
isn't the current colloquial name. Would you talk about taking a
Metropolitan Railway train from Paddington to Farringdon? And, of
course, you'd use the City & South London Railway to get from London
Bridge to Stockwell. After all, those are the official historical
names.

The Tube is the technically correct term for the deep tube lines, but
being shorter, and most people not being techies, its use extended to
cover all the LU lines, and TfL has reflected that reality.

And, of course, there's a new naming issue coming up: Crossrail. TfL
is treating the Elizabeth Line as a network in its own right, not just
as another underground or Tube line. So it'll have its own roundel,
just like the whole of the Underground and the whole of the
Overground, but unlike, say, the Metropolitan Line (or, to you, the
Metropolitan Railway). One could have argued with equal logic that it
should be regarded as a Tube line or an Overground line.