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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[jauntyalan]

most annoying bit about paddington/pink line = not being able to change to bakerloo without going through barriers. which is why they don't join it up on the map. but still BOTH lines go through paddington. bah.

then changing at paddington could be as rude as baker st.

the pink line is infrequent but pretty fast once it arrives. i used to go from westb grove to hammersmith for work.

in fact i'd rather that than the RUBBISH 220 bus from harlesden i do now. the traffic down that bit of london is abominable. slows to a crawl if someone drops their hat near in shepherds bush

[katstevens]

It will get worse when Congestion Charge Mk 2 turns up and pushes yet more traffic out to the Western edge of town.

[boyofbadgers]

The 220 sucketh the big c0ck of Satan. I remember getting it to Fulham Bdy as part of an experiment to see if I could get to Kingston from S/B in a reasonable time w/o using the West London Line. To say it was not a success would be an understatement.

[jauntyalan]

with the white city development, college park excavations, westway turnoff, harlesden high street water digging, harlesden hight st one-way SLOW CRAWL, and hammersmith gyratory it's a nightmare.

the other way from hammersmith is all narrow roads too, which means this very long bus route is prone to the most extreme clumping EVAH.

i have walked home when the traffic is really bad. it takes me a little over 70 mins, and it's taken me longer by bus some times.

:-( to the power of infinity plus one.

On a Point of Information...

[dogrando]

2. ...and there's no sensible abbreviation, which leads to people calling it the Pink Line, which is bobbins.

When we lived in Paddington, we called it the "Ham and Cit". Not very elegant, I know, but it did the job.

(We mostly talked about it when, say, going home from King's X, and the next westbound train was a pink one, and we had to decide whether to take it and have that annoying trek across Paddington station or to wait for the next yellow one.)

Re: On a Point of Information...

[katstevens]

If you are from Wess Lunnun you can get away with calling it the "Amm-Smiff-N-Cit-(uh)" which is only four syllables and a glottal stop. But it would still be trumped by "Amm-Chap-(uh)".

[friend_of_tofu]

This is ace, but might I suggest that the 3-syllable name is far catchier, and that, to avoid pork references, it should therefore be "Hammerchap"? Apart from simplicity, it also has super connotations of Chappery and the regular users could be referred to as 'Hammerchaps' (or 'Hammerchapesses', if they wanted the gendered reference), and that would just be jolly good all round.