"Paul Scott" wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote:
...so says the posters that have just gone up - accompanied by a
leaflet which contains a brief precis of what the ELLX project is, and
then gives details of the replacement bus services that will operate.
The leaflet claims it went to print in August, but I've only just come
across it.

See a PDF of the leaflet he
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/East-london-line-closure-leaflet.pdf

A few observations...

(2) Why call the replacement buses ELC, ELP, ELW and ELS - it's
confusing! I guess the alphabetical routes are used as opposed to
numerical ones so as to avoid confusion with normal buses routes, but
I think EL1 - EL4 would have been a better choice. Perhaps the London
Buses division is very proprietorial when it comes to their precious
numbers!


/breaking the code:

ELC - Canada Water
ELW - Wapping
ELS - Shoreditch

ELP - should have been R for Rotherhithe? Is ELR already taken?

Paul S


Sure, I'd figured out as much but nonetheless I think that using letters is
potentially confusing - with two EL* buses calling at Canada Water bus
station and two EL* buses stopping on Whitechapel Road outside Whitechapel
station. Maybe my assertion that it'll be confusing is quite wrong, as using
letters rather than numbers will be easier for passengers and will
differentiate them from normal bus routes.

Regarding ELP - I presume ELR was not used as ELR is also the abbreviation
of "East London Railway", which is now the name TfL is using for the ELLX
(i.e. the whole eventual service from Croydon to Dalston)- to go alongside
the "North London Railway", which is the name TfL has given to all the
routes currently run by Silverlink Metro that it is taking over in November.

The East London Railway, when completed, will join the North London Railway
in being branded "London Overground". Whether the terms ELR and NLR will be
used in passenger facing communications is something that I don't know
about. The eventual plan of course is for there to be at least some trains
that continue from the ELR to the NLR and vice-versa.

Whilst we're on the subject, can anyone say what happened in the '90s
regarding ELL replacement buses when the line was shut for an (over)extended
period, as it wasn't a line that I used at all back then.