London Overground line names
 

Tom Anderson wrote:

I anticipate achieving the former completely, and making a good fist
of the latter - if it's as good as the way the existing London
Connections map deals with the District and Metropolitan lines (said
map suggests you can get trains from Amersham to Northwood and
Richmond to Edgware Road), i'll be happy.

Are there no longer any trains from Amersham to Northwood? Or did you mean
Amersham to Northwick Park?

London Overground line names
 

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:32:45 -0000, John Rowland wrote:

I anticipate achieving the former completely, and making a good fist
of the latter - if it's as good as the way the existing London
Connections map deals with the District and Metropolitan lines (said
map suggests you can get trains from Amersham to Northwood and
Richmond to Edgware Road), i'll be happy.

Are there no longer any trains from Amersham to Northwood? Or did you mean
Amersham to Northwick Park?

There may be one or two a day (there's at least one in the other
direction), but no regular service.

London Overground line names
 

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:33:28 -0000, Mizter T wrote:

On 27 Nov, 15:21, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Mizter T wrote:
On 27 Nov, 10:02, "Paul Scott" wrote:
"Mizter T" wrote in message

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Tom Anderson wrote:

So the line can have the name the South London Atlantic Line, and
can
thus sport a South Atlantic theme. I'm thinking... er.. the
Falklands,
so mosaics of Romping soldiers...

Yomping ITYF - unless you have a different idea of soldiers
activities?

Err... err... err... no comment!

I'm not quite sure how I managed to get so discombobulated there. I'm
more of a tabbing man I guess - I'm less au fait with the strange
phraseology of these amphibious warriors.

And I shall correct myself before anyone else does - soldiers don't
yomp, marines do.

That was a movie, wasn't it - Red Coats Can't Yomp?

Soldiers apparently 'tab'; the advance from San Carlos Water to Port
Stanley was made by a joint force of Royal Marines and Paras, and thus
was
both a yomp and a tab. According to the ever-reliable wikipedia.

tom


Do keep up at the back there - hence my comments about me "being more
of a tabbing man".

Though to be fair I don't actually think soldiers ever adapt tab to be
used in the Gerund form - i.e. no -ing as in tabbING, so "we were on a
tab" - correct, but "we were tabbing" - incorrect.

Tabbing is what you do at the end of a yomp. When the Woodbines get passed
around.

--
Fig

London Overground line names
 

On Nov 22, 6:45 pm, wrote:
As Innes Ferguson, TFL design director said at the LT Museum on
24/9/7, the "Overground" brand made since as "you wouldn't expect to
see 'Underground' on a roundel outside a station in Brighton".

Of course apart from LUL, Southern is really only the other rail
operator in Greater London that provides attractive enamel signage
using high-quality materials.

Actually, Southeastern (also run by Govia) are installing similar
white-on-navy enamel signs (though quite slowly at present!) Waterloo
East, Catford and Dunton Green have examples already...