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Dave Arquati · December 31st 06, 07:45 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
They've already had one half-hearted attempt at this about 15 years ago
when Shepherd's Bush(C) was going to become Shepherd's Bush Green. As
part of this plan new enamel line diagrams at Mile End WB carried the
new name, and indeed still do! I'm not sure if it ever appeared/appears
anywhere else and it certainly never got as far as Shepherd's Bush(C)
station itself.

Chancery Lane (at least WB) has Shepherd's Bush Green marked on it.

If we can't have two Shepherd's Bush stations where does that leave
Edgware Road, Hammersmith and Paddington?

Well - there will be two S Bush stations - Shepherd's Bush, and
Shepherd's Bush Market. The West London Line and Central Line stations
are so close to each other that it would be counter-productive to give
them separate names. In fact, the platforms on each line are probably
closer together than those in many Zone 1 in-station interchanges.

Hammersmith is slightly less obvious but the stations are still so close
together, and there are directions from each to the other. It would be
good to add some (more prominent) publicity advising customers that
Oyster PAYG will not charge extra for the interchange.

The Paddingtons are really both part of the same complex - just at
opposite ends of it. The new service pattern on the Circle and H&C lines
will make using Paddington much easier, with passengers to/from the
northern Circle almost exclusively using the Bishop's Road (H&C)
platforms, and passengers to/from the western Circle and beyond using
the Praed Street (C/D) platforms.

I'm not sure there's much of a problem at Edgware Road. They're just on
opposite sides of the flyover, and nobody will be interchanging between
them as Paddington and Baker Street are more suitable (and marked as
such on the Tube map).

As for confusion for people arranging to meet outside a station, this
can occur even at a single site where there are multiple exits (e.g.
Victoria).

That implies that renaming nearby stations with the same name, to
stations with different names, won't reap many benefits. Arranging to
meet people at large locations in London is inherently tricky and is
just a fact of big-city life, I think!

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Dave Arquati
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London