Paul Scott wrote:
"Mizter T" wrote in message
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"Paul Scott" wrote:

/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",

Of course - good point - not ideal to have two uses for one abbreviation...

Paul




As the person who decided upon this lettering system, I can now reveal
that the "P" in ELP stands for... wait for it... peninsula! Of course
the Rotherhithe service would, in an indeal world, have been ELR but as
someone else rightly suggested, this was deemed to be too similar to the
East London Railway abbreviation.

Cheers

Steve M