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Post by metroland on Dec 24, 2010 15:33:18 GMT
According to news media a couple of days ago the redevelopment for Battersea Power Station has been given the go-ahead. Yes I know older viewers and listeners have been here before like myself, but please bear with me..... The media reports say the area will be served by a 2 stop extension to the Northern line. I'm assuming the intermediate station woud be Vauxhall but I haven't seen it specified anywhere. (Afraid I don't have the erudition to name it whatever the Latin is for 'pie in the sky'  ) |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2010 15:45:27 GMT
I thought it was Kennington - Nine Elms - Battersea?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2010 15:54:17 GMT
According to news media a couple of days ago the redevelopment for Battersea Power Station has been given the go-ahead. Yes I know older viewers and listeners have been here before like myself, but please bear with me..... (Afraid I don't have the erudition to name it whatever the Latin is for 'pie in the sky' ) We have had windowless trains suggested in the past from Victoria, for previous incarnations of this project. I hope the order for the proposed stock Flying Pig 2011 is cancelled and real tube stock order follows. Pink Floyd were ahead of the game with their Animals album cover. Xerces Fobe |
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Post by phillw48 on Dec 24, 2010 16:53:52 GMT
(Afraid I don't have the erudition to name it whatever the Latin is for 'pie in the sky' ) Libum et Astra. |
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Post by thc on Dec 24, 2010 16:55:21 GMT
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Post by ducatisti on Dec 24, 2010 17:29:49 GMT
That would be pie and stars
the free translator suggests "pie in divum" which means either the romans had no word for pie (unlikely), or the free translator doesn't know it... ;D
Per ardua ad astra would seem more apt if it's going to add to the loads on the southern end of the northern...
Where is it supposed to join the network? Kennington?
Will we get some new 95 stock for it? Oj just some flying pigs...
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Post by phillw48 on Dec 24, 2010 17:42:22 GMT
That would be pie and stars the free translator suggests "pie in divum" which means either the romans had no word for pie (unlikely), or the free translator doesn't know it... ;D Libum is a type of pizza, it is the nearest I could find. As for the rest.>> Semper in excreta, solum profundum variat. ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2010 17:51:34 GMT
Would it not be better for another line to have this branch, the northern line already has plenty of branches to serve.
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Post by Tubeboy on Dec 24, 2010 17:59:13 GMT
It would be simple, Edgware-Battersea [Via Charing X] and High Barnet-Morden [Via Bank] with a Mill Hill East shuttle.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2010 18:04:15 GMT
Bloody Hell, The Northern line is big enough already! Battersea already has a good rail service in the shape of Southern trains into Victoria! If you were to extend a tube line make it the Bakerloo
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2010 18:05:38 GMT
Pink Floyd were ahead of the game with their Animals album cover. "Wondering which of the buggers to blame, and watching for pigs on the wing".......fantastic stuff Mr. Walters! |
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Post by flippyff on Dec 24, 2010 19:47:17 GMT
If/When this goes ahead, how is it likely to be done? Would the Kennington loop be taken out of service for the extension to be grafted on whilst the rest of the line runs a 'normal'-ish service?
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Post by SE13 on Dec 24, 2010 19:49:16 GMT
We've had this discussion here a couple of times, and I think the best we ever came up with was switching the Bakerloo to Battersea at Lambeth North as the Elephant was facing the wrong way. (Something like that anyway, I'll have a look for the thread(s) when the kids are tucked up)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2010 19:50:29 GMT
Would it even still be called the Northern line? If plans go ahead to separate the two branches the lines could be split in the same way the Hammersmith and City was from the Metropolitan.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2010 20:32:57 GMT
Would they ever call the Edgware to Battersea branch the Northern City Line.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2010 21:01:09 GMT
Would they ever call the Edgware to Battersea branch the Northern City Line. The High Barnet to Morden branch would be more appropriate, as that passes through Bank and is currently referred to as the city branch. |
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Post by mrfs42 on Dec 24, 2010 21:05:28 GMT
Would they ever call the Edgware to Battersea branch the Northern City Line. The High Barnet to Morden branch would be more appropriate, as that passes through Bank and is currently referred to as the city branch. Err... I always thought that was the old terminology - isn't now the 'Bank' branch? Remember chaps - bold means Bank! (A WTT joke, sorry.) |
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Post by Chris M on Dec 25, 2010 0:35:32 GMT
We have had a thread recently about possible names for a split Northern Line, I suggested City and South London Line for Morden to High Barnet via Bank.
Battersea to Edgware could be the Batterware Line, or alternatively the Battersea, Kennington and Northern (Baken) Line
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2010 0:49:24 GMT
West End Line perhaps?
Or Kennington Express ;D
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Post by Chris M on Dec 25, 2010 0:55:12 GMT
Kennington, Edgware and Waterloo Line? That would be KEWL!
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Post by 21146 on Dec 25, 2010 16:39:17 GMT
Northern and Southern Lines?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2010 16:43:19 GMT
Northern and Southern Lines? Don't quite think that they are planning to run Edgware to High Barnet and Kennington to Morden.. would involve changing ends too! You couldn't call them that either- High Barnet is further north than Edgware and Morden is quite a way south of Kennington... |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2010 17:59:30 GMT
Swap them in the north then - Morden-Bank-Edgware and Battersea-Charing X-High Barnet!
If you really need the depot, upgrade highgate and/or barnet!
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Post by SE13 on Dec 25, 2010 18:16:48 GMT
Would it even still be called the Northern line? If plans go ahead to separate the two branches the lines could be split in the same way the Hammersmith and City was from the Metropolitan. I suppose they could call it "The Olympic Line"  |
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Post by Ben on Dec 25, 2010 19:11:23 GMT
I'd plump with 'Northern' and 'Southern' as 21146 suggested. 'Northern' would be as relevant in the future as it ever was, refering as it does to a railway that doesnt exist.
Even if it is split theres no reason to turn it into seperate business units. Just make one trunk a different colour and show it as such on the in-car diagrams, similar to the H&Circ.
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Post by edwin on Jan 3, 2011 2:21:00 GMT
Morden-Bank-High Barnet = City line (purple)
Battersea-Charing Cross-Edgware = West End line (remain black)
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Post by abe on Jan 3, 2011 13:52:11 GMT
Purple for the line through the West End, and black for the City line would be putting the colours back to how they were pre-merger in the 1920s.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2011 14:09:26 GMT
We have had a thread recently about possible names for a split Northern Line, I suggested City and South London Line for Morden to High Barnet via Bank. Battersea to Edgware could be the Batterware Line, or alternatively the Battersea, Kennington and Northern (Baken) Line We don't need the places spelled out to us in the line name, its bad enough they renamed the East London Line The Dalston Junction to West Croydon and Crystal Palace Line soon to be the Highbury and Islington to West Croydon and Crystal Palace Line. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2011 19:16:58 GMT
Remember that CXE&HR was known as the Hampstead tube. Might as well reference that as a historic curiosity. So Battersea-Hampstead line which contracts to Bastead line.
We always tend to go crazy with contractions though as if half the lines have such names when so far there is only one.
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Post by Chris M on Jan 8, 2011 18:11:59 GMT
If you want names that are not geographical references or contractions, how about "Holden Line" (for the line that includes his stations on the Morden extension) and maybe "Beck Line" for the other, I believe that putting Tottenham Court Road as the centre point of the map was his doing so this wouldn't be no connection (although his local station was Finchley Central which people seem to assume will be part of the other route).
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