Bedpan \u2013 Line between Bedford and St. Pancras.
\nBrain Line \u2013 Informal name for the railway that used to link the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a pun on the term main line. qv Varsity Line.<\/p>\n
ChEnFord \u2013 London Overground\u2019s new Cheshunt, Enfield, and Chingford routes out of Liverpool Street.<\/p>\n
Clockwork Orange \u2013 Glasgow\u2019s circular subway line, third to open in the world, and which features orange coloured trains that are like \u00be scale versions of London tube trains.<\/p>\n
Dangleway \u2013 Nickname for the Emirates Air Line Cable Car line.<\/p>\n
Discreet Line \u2013 District Line nickname, as in the train is never there when you need it.<\/p>\n
Drain, the \u2013 The Waterloo & City railway\/Tube line, so called for its\u2019 narrow, crowded, and oft fetid commuting environment.<\/p>\n
GOBLIN \u2013 Gospel Oak to Barking LINe.<\/p>\n
Harlequin Line \u2013 Short lived Network SouthEast name for the Euston-Watford DC line, after a completion for schoolchildren to come up with a name, derived from combinations of Har<\/strong>lesden, Wille<\/strong>sden, and Qu<\/strong>een<\/strong>\u2018s Park stations on the route. Alteratively as a portmanteau of HARLEsden and QUeeN\u2019s Park. Abandoned on privatisation. This name begat the Harlequin Centre shopping mall, which is all that remains of the name scheme.<\/p>\n Heineken Line \u2013 A hypothetical tube line that would fill in network holes in central London, with its name taken from the 1970s advertising campaign: \u2018Heineken refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach\u2019.<\/p>\n Marlow Donkey \u2013 Train shuttle between Marlow, Bourne End and Maidenhead.<\/p>\n Marshlink \u2013 Railway line linking Ashford with Hastings in Kent through the marshes. Recommended for closure by Dr Beeching in 1963, the route survived various other closure attempts as well. See http:\/\/www.londonreconnections.com\/2014\/study-sussex-part-3-hs1-hastings\/#comment-210587<\/a><\/p>\n Misery Line \u2013 Northern Line, for being overcrowded and prone to unreliability, part of which is due to its long history, old infrastructure, heavy ridership, and decades of neglect.<\/p>\n Morgan Line \u2013 Hypothetical tube line. See LR article \u201cWhat if: The Morgan Line\u201d. *** paste in URL<\/p>\n Mudropolitan \u2013 original Metropolitan Line nickname, for the muddy fields at the north-west railheads before houses were built.<\/p>\n Push & Pull \u2013 Nickname of the short Rominster rail shuttle when it was still steam driven.<\/p>\n Regatta Line \u2013 Nickname of Henley-On-Thames branch.<\/p>\n Surrey-in-a-Hurry \u2013 Heathrow Terminal Five already has space for two Surrey-in-a-Hurry platforms for a rail connexion to the south of the airport.<\/p>\n Varsity Line \u2013 informal name for the railway route that used to link the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge. See also \u201cBrain Line\u201d.<\/p>\n Viking Line \u2013 A 1950\u2019s name suggestion for the Victoria Line, being the portmanteau of Victoria and King\u2019s Cross, the line\u2019s 2 major central London stations. Post-war planning had called this Tube line C.<\/p>\n Wimbleware \u2013 Wimbledon to Edgware section of the District line. Oft mused to split off from the District as a separate line, but this is greatly complicated by the interlining with other District Line branch operations.<\/p>\n Organisation<\/strong>Brand<\/strong>Reports to<\/strong>Date<\/strong>Metropolitan, Great Northern, and Metropolitan East London RailwaysMetropolitanRailway shareholders1863-1933Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL) Ministry or Department<\/strong>Date<\/strong>Ministry of Transport\u200e (MoT)1919\u20131941Ministry of War Transport1941\u20131946Ministry of Transport\u200e1946\u20131953Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation\u200e1953\u20131959\u200eMinistry of Transport1959\u20131970Department for the Environment (DoE)\u200e1970\u20131976Department of Transport (DTp)\u200e1976\u20131997Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR)1997\u20132001\u200eDepartment for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR)2001\u20132002Department for Transport (DfT)\u200e2002-<\/p>\n The effect of technological progress increasing the efficiency with which a resource is used, which reduces the amount necessary for any one use, but the rate of consumption of that resource rises because of increasing demand.<\/p>\n In 1865, English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that technological improvements that increased the efficiency of coal use led to the increased consumption of coal, in a wide range of industries. He argued that, contrary to common intuition, technological progress could not be relied upon to reduce fuel consumption.<\/p>\n This is similar to the Braess Paradox, which we explained in a previous Miscellany edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n Average walking speed increases, according to the power law, with the size of the city.<\/p>\n Marchetti clarified the model by determining that the total travel time includes errands, walks, jogs etc.<\/p>\n LVG \u2013 living room<\/p>\n DNR \u2013 dining room<\/p>\n BKY \u2013 back yard<\/p>\n BAL \u2013 balcony<\/p>\n MBR \u2013 master bedroom<\/p>\n KTN \u2013 kitchen<\/p>\n WNC \u2013 wine cellar<\/p>\n Lord Dawlish, career civil servant, Renaissance man, and occasional commentator on London Reconnections, has graciously provided his favourite terms and sayings:<\/p>\n analepsis \u2013 Commonly referred to as retrospection or flashback, the opposite of prolepsis. Plural is analepses. See also prolepsis.<\/em><\/p>\n Chthonic \u2013 underground, with obvious references to railways.<\/p>\n Diderot Effect \u2013 Named after the French philosopher Denis Diderot, who described buying a new possession which often creates a spiral of consumption which leads to acquiring more new things. As a result, we end up buying things that our previous selves never needed to feel happy or fulfilled.<\/p>\n Dis aliter visum \u2013 the Devil saw it differently.<\/p>\n efletus \u2013 a word found in the Book of Common Prayer, meaning a fart. (There used abusively to describe Catholic doctrine). (Lord D comments: \u201cbetter English useage would be to spell it with a double f, but the Oxford \u2013 pause for sneer \u2013 dictionary will have it so\u201d).<\/p>\n escutcheon \u2013 a shield or shield-shaped emblem, displaying a coat of arms.<\/p>\n Ibid. \u2013 Latin word, short for ibidem, which means the same place.<\/p>\n ludic \u2013 playing games, spontaneous playfulness.<\/p>\n Marmon-Herrington \u2013 an American manufacturer of trolleybuses \u2013 what a distinguished sounding name! (Combined with Ohio brass fittings to give a near perfect system).<\/p>\n mondegreen \u2013 the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, giving it new meaning, ie song lyrics and station announcements.<\/p>\n monoglot \u2013 person who speaks only one language.<\/p>\n nadsat \u2013 Russian word for teen, and is the version of English spoken by the teen subculture in Anthony Burgess his novel A Clockwork Orange. The distopian estate block in which Kubrick filmed his 1971 movie is Thamesmead, hitherto still without decent public transport to London and the surrounding region.<\/p>\n omnishambles \u2013 prospects of London public transport in 2050.<\/p>\n passim \u2013 Latin meaning \u2018here and there, everywhere\u2019 (not the Beatles song) but to indicate that a word or passage occurs frequently in a cited work.<\/p>\n pelf \u2013 money gained in a dishonest or dishonourable way. Of late Middle English origin, as in pilfered property, from a variant of Old French pelfre meaning \u2018spoils\u2019, and from whence we get the English word \u2018pilfer\u2019. In modern use, slang for cash\/negotiable lettuce\/dosh.<\/p>\n pettifogging \u2013 placing undue emphasis on petty details.<\/p>\n post hoc ergo propter hoc \u2013 Latin phrase that means \u201cSince event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X\u201d. In other words, correlation does not mean causation.<\/p>\n prolepsis \u2013 the representation of something in the future as if it already existed or had occurred. Plural is prolepses. See also analepsis.<\/em><\/p>\n pro tem \u2013 short for the Latin phrase Pro tempore meaning \u2018for the time being\u2019.<\/p>\n quintessentially \u2013 a sort of literary cough whilst gathering one\u2019s thoughts and also to lend a kind of bogus distinction to what one says next.<\/p>\n Ronseal Test \u2013 does it do what it says on the tin? From the UK advertising slogan for woodstain and wood-dye manufacturer Ronseal starting in 1994, which became a common phrase.<\/p>\n sui generis \u2013 Latin for \u2018in a class of its own, unlike anything else\u2019.<\/p>\n Tellurian \u2013 earthbound, unlike Volk\u2019s sea-going tram.<\/p>\n ususfruct \u2013 a right in Roman-based civil law that provides temporary right to the use and enjoyment of the property of another, without changing the character of the property. Originally from the interests between a slave held under a usus fructus (Latin for \u201cuse and enjoyment\u201d) bond and a master.<\/p>\n Correct at the time of writing.<\/p>\n The post Reconnections\u2019 Miscellany: Lord Dawlish speaks! \u2013 August 2023<\/a> appeared first on London Reconnections<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" London and South East Region Line Nicknames Bedpan \u2013 Line between Bedford and St. Pancras. Brain Line \u2013 Informal name for the railway that used to link the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, and a pun on the term main line. qv Varsity Line. ChEnFord \u2013 London Overground\u2019s new Cheshunt, Enfield, and Chingford routes out of Liverpool Street. Clockwork…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Transport for London\u2019s Lineage<\/h2>\n
[financed and built Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines]UndergrounD GroupRailway owners (Yerkes et al)1902-1906UERL [acquired Central London and City & South London Railways]UndergrounD Group1906-1914Waterloo & City RailwayLondon & South West Railway (LSWR)LSWR -> British Rail1898-1994London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) London Transport (LT)London County Council (LCC)1933-1948London Transport Executive (LTE)London Transport (LT)British Transport Commission
1948-1962London Transport Board (LTB)London Transport (LT)Ministry of Transport1963-1969London Transport Executive (LTE)London Transport (LT)Greater London Council (GLC)1970-1984London Public Transport Authority (LPTA)London Transport (LT)DoE -> DTp -> DETR1984-2000Transport for London (TfL)London Underground, DLR, London Overground. &cGreater London Assembly (GLA)2000-<\/p>\nDepartment for Transport\u2019s Lineage<\/h2>\n
Jevon\u2019s Paradox<\/h2>\n
Marchetti\u2019s Constant \u2013 Corollary<\/h2>\n
New Pandemic Airport Codes<\/h2>\n
Lord Dawlish\u2019s Column<\/h2>\n