First capital connect

viperskil · Post by **viperskil** » Mon May 01, 2006 2:44 pm

Other than being totally shocked at Firsts naming policy and huge waste of capital by rebranding all the stock and infrastructure I thought it would be good to come up with some names to truely describe First groups new venture: First . Connect, First Capital Disconnect and First ..

danielw2599 · Post by **danielw2599** » Mon May 01, 2006 4:19 pm

Personly I dont think theres anything wrong with FCC. Its catchy and to the point.

Daniel

viperskil · Post by **viperskil** » Mon May 01, 2006 4:20 pm

It's a stupid name Thameslink has been around for years back into nationalisation even, this is worthless rebranding and probably t the tax payers expense.

allypally · Post by **allypally** » Mon May 01, 2006 4:35 pm

It's not being entirely rebranded - integral Thameslink branding is remaining, such as station names.

frogface · Post by **frogface** » Mon May 01, 2006 4:36 pm

allypally wrote:It's not being entirely rebranded - integral Thameslink branding is remaining, such as station names.

Thats good, "Kings Cross First Capital Connect" is a bit of a mouthful

phat2003uk · Post by **phat2003uk** » Mon May 01, 2006 4:54 pm

danielw2599 wrote:Personly I dont think theres anything wrong with FCC. Its catchy and to the point.

Daniel

First Capital Connect catchy! Whatever next...

danielw2599 · Post by **danielw2599** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:29 pm

phat2003uk wrote:
danielw2599 wrote:Personly I dont think theres anything wrong with FCC. Its catchy and to the point.

Daniel
First Capital Connect catchy! Whatever next...

Well its more catchy than "One" or "Southern Railway" etc etc

viperskil · Post by **viperskil** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:32 pm

To be honest One sounds pretty decent.

arabiandisco · Post by **arabiandisco** » Mon May 01, 2006 6:54 pm

And "Southern Railway" is the best franchise name out there. Shame it's such a lame excuse for a franchise, though! 'one' is a stupid name though - I'd have called it "Great Eastern" personally.

Last Capital Con is what I've heard it referred to as mostly.

I don't know what they could have done though, as the Thameslink brand doesn't really apply to the Great Northern services - not pre Thameslink 3000 anyway.

n863dwt · Post by **n863dwt** » Mon May 01, 2006 8:41 pm

arabiandisco wrote:And "Southern Railway" is the best franchise name out there. Shame it's such a lame excuse for a franchise, though! 'one' is a stupid name though - I'd have called it "Great Eastern" personally.

Last Capital Con is what I've heard it referred to as mostly.

I don't know what they could have done though, as the Thameslink brand doesn't really apply to the Great Northern services - not pre Thameslink 3000 anyway.

i totaly agree
the route is still thameslink but the operator has to join up thinking in operation of the 2 segments there by giving one voice for the operation so to speak trather than 1 parent company , 2 mini operators, 2 route sections

Elojikal · Post by **Elojikal** » Mon May 01, 2006 10:24 pm

Five Minutes Late Capital Connect?

mattvince · Post by **mattvince** » Tue May 02, 2006 6:29 am

First WhatsInYourWallet?

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Tue May 02, 2006 10:32 am

Kings Cross, City and West Hampstead Thameslink will remain Thameslink stations, it'll cost too much money to rename them.

arabiandisco · Post by **arabiandisco** » Tue May 02, 2006 11:46 am

What will St Pancras be called though? Probably just "St Pancras" I suppose.

ForburyLion · Post by **ForburyLion** » Tue May 02, 2006 4:23 pm

Good to hear that First Great Western Link and whatever the other one are will all be called First Great Western..... Would sound even better without the First bit at the front.