Evening all,

Seen at Farringdon, New Johnston and Rail Alphabet together at last:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/twic/2150199528

And at Warren Street, a new, post-ELL, version of the tube map which is
slowly appearing at stations (but is not yet, AFAIK, online):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/twic/2149407291

I am pleased to note that my complaint about the Overground layout at
Willesden Junction has been addressed, although i doubt i had anything to
do with it!

tom

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On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:00:24 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

(OT) A waste of money though - surely Thameslink still exists as the
name of the National Rail route.

It does... but it's far less prominent now. The trains don't have it written
on them any more and announcements etc. don't mention it. Besides which,
once the Thameslink work is all finished, the thameslink route could mean
trains to any number of destinations rather then the fairly simple route it
refers to at the moment.

Best Wishes,
LEWIS

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Lew 1 wrote:

All of which will pass through Farringdon, though. And vice versa, every
train which passes through Farringdon will be on the Thameslink route.

Unless the plan is to rebrand (debrand?) things so that the new routes
won't be called Thameslink?

tom

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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Paul Scott wrote:

When they did much the same thing to extend the Central and Northern lines
after the war, taking over existing routes, they were just drawn as dashed
lines, without any reference to them being extant railway lines:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1946.html

Although interestingly, entirely new bits of routes were shown
differently, as dotted lines. That clever Mr Beck!

tom

On 31 Dec 2007, 17:50, "Peter Lawrence" ntlworld.com>
wrote:

They seem to quite like their stickers. London Overground have been
busy pasting over even the most harmless Rail Alphabet sign with an
identical one in New Johnston, complete with the silly "Temporary
sign" note in the corner. They seem much less bothered about the
trains not exactly matching the picture in the brochure.

U

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Paul Scott wrote: