Paul Scott wrote on 15 May 2009
19:38:46 ...
TimB wrote:
It's happening! As Boris said: 'The shovels have tasted earth'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8051185.stm

I see from the Crossrail site they are now referring to the station as
'Canary Wharf' and no longer 'Isle of Dogs'.

The press release for today's announcement refers to "the renamed
Canary Wharf station".

Is there any detail available yet about direct interchange between the DLR
and Crossrail here - it is the DLR station at West India Quay that is
immediately above, so could there yet be some renaming of existing stations?

The WIQ/Crossrail positioning is roughly a mirror image of that for
Heron Quays / Jubilee Line. WIQ will probably be slightly nearer that
DLR Canary Wharf, but not much.

Or will they stick with three totally separate Canary Wharf stations, and
have a pretty confusing set of 'outerchanges'?

Probably. Do you have a better naming plan?

By the way, I note that one of the new Crossrail maps shows "Heathrow
T1,2,3 and 4". Until now they have seemed reluctant to admit that
Crossrail won't serve T5, and indeed most of the maps still show just
"Heathrow" or "Heathrow Airport", and all of them show only one station
'blob'.

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