Tom Anderson wrote:

Similarly where do I go to tell TfL that "Queen Mary & Westfield College"
is out of date and should read "Queen Mary, University of London" on the
bus stops, timetable and DLR area map? This one seriously annoys me - QMW
is seriously out of date and everything now says QMUL.

Despite it not being terribly sensical. Queen Mary *what*? It's clearly
not an actual queen - nor is it a university of London!

No but it's named after a Queen (Mary of Teck aka Mrs George V). And it is
part of the University of London (one of the loyalist parts of the lot). I
guess whoever originated the style (there's also "Birkbeck, University of
London", "Royal Holloway, University of London" and now "Goldsmiths,
University of London") may have been thinking of "Queen's University of
Belfast" or "State University of New York" or somesuch.

It seems QMUL is a sort of trading name, with the real name still being
QMW. As you say, everyone calls it QMUL, and i agree that buses should
too, but it's somewhat interesting anyway.

The main problems are that "College" and "Westfield" are not used in the
name given on *EVERYTHING*, whilst "University" is missing from the name on
bus stops and timetables (for someone who doesn't know the area too well,
having "university" there does help them). And "Westfield" is historically
very recent - it only merged with QM in 1989 and the name was dropped from
day to day use in 2000 - so it's not as if this is an essential historic
name.

I'll drop TfL a line, both on buses and the DLR map.