Stop! Hammerchapel!

[boyofbadgers]

Standing on Baker Street's Westbound Circle line platforms a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that the service indicator on the Eastbound platform still bore the legend 'Whitechapel and Circle Trains', despite it being over ten years since that branch of the Met got renamed. This got me thinking about the Hammersmith And City line, and what a rubbish

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[badasstronaut]

You've met this version have you?

[boyofbadgers]

Aye, but I'd totally forgotten where it was. Ta for the link.

[catsgomiaow]

I had no idea that that was why the Bakerloo line was so named! Tho it makes sense, I suppose.

The other day (at Leicester Sq station I think) I saw an old Underground map which still had Charing Cross as being on the Jubilee line! Since I'd ONLY just trained myself to think otherwise, this confused the living bejesus out of me.

Hammerchapel!

[boyofbadgers]

See also the Wimbleware.

LJ ATE MY COMMENT!

[catsgomiaow]

Hehehe :)

Dude do you know which is the deepest Underground line? Enquiring minds (ie PM) want to know - I said poss the Piccadilly line, tho there's that silly-big escalator at Angel. I said you'd probably know! :)

Re: LJ ATE MY COMMENT!

[katstevens]

That is bcos Angel is up an HILL.

[marnameow]

The pink line = rubbish by any name. Does anyone love it?

(and it's a really nasty shade of pink, too)

[boyofbadgers]

We-ll, it's quite handy if you want to get from King's Cross to Mile End, or from Paddington to King's Cross, which I often do. And it's nowhere near as rub as the District Line. But aye, it is a bit too trundly and the three flat junctions do lead to an awful lot of stopping in tunnels.

[katstevens]

> it's quite handy if you want to get from King's Cross to Mile End

If the Central line is down, yes.

[katstevens]

Or one is carrying summat heavy. One of these days I am going to TIME both routes and see which one is quickest, because I am a Sad.

[tansu]

I like it. Hamchapel might be even better at three syllables. However, its suggestion of collective reverence towards cured pork products might be considered potentially problematic to some key faith communities within the capital.

Hammerchapel would make West Ham fans happy, and I'm reliably informed that it is "nice" to make people "happy".

[boyofbadgers]

The implied pork reverence would be especially unfortunate given the traditional and current populations of Whitechapel, both largely adhering to one or t'other of the key faiths in question.

Incidentally, LU lovers...

[chezghost]

here's my lastest 'too much time on his hands' endeavour:

http://base58.com/tube/

photographic map of the network, slowly building up complete collection of every station - only about half the photos are mine tho (come back next week and they will link to full size versions and stuff)

Re: Incidentally, LU lovers...

[jauntyalan]

GIANT TABLE OF DEATH

you should try using css absolute positioning perhaps

Re: Incidentally, LU lovers...

[chezghost]

i want the right sense of scale, but yes the expanse of empty grid (even when project is complete) is a problem.

Re: Incidentally, LU lovers...

[katstevens]

Oh dear god. We can prob contribute to the circle line ones innit!