Glossary of Terms

[tangy]

Some more that I have thought of:

H&W: Harrow & Wealdstone
HEx: Heathrow Express
HC: Heathrow Connect (the Padd- Heathrow local)
H&I: Highbury & Islington
SS: Seven Sisters
TL or T/link: Thameslink (the cross London rail route between Bedford and Brighton/Sutton)
OXC: Oxford Circus
NX or NatEx: National Express

Being an enthuiast of NR, LU and buses there are many more I could list in reference if you wish me to include them, the ones above are in common circulation.

[Mitchell&BrownLook]

A slight adaptation of the theme, but when and why did EVL come into being? I understand it, but never have heard the history of it, as it was probably started before my time.

[jonny]

Am I right in thinking that this was originally a Tangy-ism, and therefore probably imported from another forum somewhere?

Or is EVL used in other circles as well?

[Wanstead]

Am I right in thinking that this was originally a Tangy-ism, and therefore probably imported from another forum somewhere?

Or is EVL used in other circles as well?

It's on car tax discs: DVLA / EVL.

[RichieG]

While we're asking questions on the origin of things...

Why Amy Winehouse?

[Wanstead]

While we're asking questions on the origin of things...

Why Amy Winehouse?

Come on... she has a tall hairdo, ie a high barnet?

Barnet Fair = hair (rhyming slang). Get with it!

[Mitchell&BrownLook]

Jeepers, there you had a Yorkshireman telling a Somerset boy all about Cockney rhyming slang! Now there's a mix up and a half!

[Wanstead]

Jeepers, there you had a Yorkshireman telling a Somerset boy all about Cockney rhyming slang! Now there's a mix up and a half!

Ah, I was born near and raised in London though. Hence username!

[RichieG]

Jeepers, there you had a Yorkshireman telling a Somerset boy all about Cockney rhyming slang! Now there's a mix up and a half!

What Somerset boy would this be then? I'm not sure who should be more offended, Sam as the only (?) Somerset person on this forum, or me as a Devonian :p

[Sam]

I think that I am more offended!! Devoners are far worse in class than people from Somerset

[Mitchell&BrownLook]

On reflection I did know the respective personal geographies of you both, I just didn't apply my brain (or rack through it properly!) prior to posting.

But then again, perhaps it just goes to show that Yorkshire men simply don't properly register anyone who isn't from God's County!

My apologies.

[Sam]

Do they not? I think scrxisi may have some explaining to do then...

[Sam]

But then again, perhaps it just goes to show that Yorkshire men simply don't properly register anyone who isn't from God's County!

If you are just the same as this stupid Yorkshireman then you do

[greatkingrat]

The Uxbridge Road runs for miles so that name is not very helpful in saying where the station is. The station is in Shepherds Bush so Shepherds Bush Market seems fine to me.

[rhubarbrhubarb]

The original plan was to keep the H&C station as "Shepherd's Bush" and to re-name the Central line station "Shepherd's Bush Green" (this name did actually appear on a few line diagrams at some Central line stations!). This would, in my opinion, have been a sensible plan. But .... then the Westfield shopping centre emerged on to the scene, along with the new West London Line station, the result being the station names that we now have. Interestingly, the old Uxbridge Road station was on the site of the new Shepherd's Bush WLL station.

Roger.