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Post by bicbasher on Dec 16, 2011 22:27:58 GMT
While queuing up at CX ticket office to renew my travelcard this morning, they mentioned delays on the "East London line" instead of London Overground.
Surely some mistake?
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Post by eurostarengineer on Dec 17, 2011 0:55:52 GMT
Its still called the East London Line to my knowledge, its just part of the LOROL network.
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Post by bicbasher on Dec 17, 2011 12:28:12 GMT
Its still called the East London Line to my knowledge, its just part of the LOROL network. Yet Canada Water calls the line "London Overground" and I'm pretty sure the official term for all delays on their network is LO. |
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Post by chrisvandenkieboom on Dec 17, 2011 18:57:56 GMT
Yes, but if they were to say that the London Overground has severe delays, then it would confuse most people; as the Overground is a large network of separate lines.
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Post by bicbasher on Dec 18, 2011 0:20:02 GMT
Yes, but if they were to say that the London Overground has severe delays, then it would confuse most people; as the Overground is a large network of separate lines. Yet the DLR has grown into various lines, London Tramlink has three routes and only use one brand name. I'm not saying it's right or wrong either way, yet if TfL are going to have a coherent branding policy for LO, surely the automated announcements should say London Overground East London Line in that case or even LO - Highbury and Islington to West Croydon and Crystal Palace? |
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Post by chrisvandenkieboom on Dec 18, 2011 11:35:35 GMT
But the DLR has a central core (Poplar area), LO doesn't.
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Post by littlebrute on Dec 18, 2011 14:06:01 GMT
I was at Ickenham in I believe June and it was announced "The East London Line is closed", I don't know if it actually was or if the announcements still haven't been changed
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Post by eurostarengineer on Dec 18, 2011 15:03:32 GMT
I wouldn't bother wasting thousands of pounds to change the announcements from "East London Line" to "London Overground".
Everyone knows what the East London Line is so why not keep it that way?
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Post by Rich32 on Dec 18, 2011 18:53:40 GMT
Officially the whole network is 'London Overground", but as eurostarengineer quite rightly points out everyone knows it as the ELL and it is usually referred to as that, even internally.
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Post by bicbasher on Dec 22, 2011 22:16:45 GMT
I wouldn't bother wasting thousands of pounds to change the announcements from "East London Line" to "London Overground". Everyone knows what the East London Line is so why not keep it that way? So what happens if a delay occurs on the WLL, NLL or Watford DC line? Surely there's a LO announcement for them? Obviously they've kept the ELL from the LUL era. |
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Post by fleetline on Dec 25, 2011 18:56:41 GMT
I thought the internal talk was now the East London Railway now. But ever from a mainlines viewpoint it's still the ELL.
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Post by eurostarengineer on Dec 25, 2011 22:40:16 GMT
I wouldn't bother wasting thousands of pounds to change the announcements from "East London Line" to "London Overground". Everyone knows what the East London Line is so why not keep it that way? So what happens if a delay occurs on the WLL, NLL or Watford DC line? Surely there's a LO announcement for them? Obviously they've kept the ELL from the LUL era. Errrr.... What usually happens? Delays are occurring between xxxx and yyyyy owing to xxxxxxxx |
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