poorly worded TfL Advice regarding Elizabeth Line during strikes

[Mattplans]

• Does anyone else feel like this advice regarding the Elizabeth Line is a bit misleading?
• It says trains will not stop at stations between Whitechapel and Bond Street.
• Does this not imply the trains are stopping at whitechapel and bond street, and then going non-stop? In actuality, the trains are NOT stopping at whitechapel and bond street. They're going 'fast' from CanaryWharf/Stratford to Paddington non-stopping but I was only able to confirm this looking at RTT/Journey planners.
• Is this poorly worded or have I just misunderstood?
• I feel the wording implies trains will not stop at stations between Whitechapel and Bond Street, when it's actually inclusive of those stations.

 

[rebmcr]

I noticed the same thing, and mentioned it in the strikes thread:

That's not 100% clear whether "between" is meant to include Whitechapel & Bond Street themselves. It's obvious to anyone here that they're both LU-affected too, but the general public deserves better communication.

 

[boiledbeans2]

I agree, they should've wrote it as "Trains will not stop at stations between Whitechapel and Bond Street, inclusive, at these times"

 

[NCT]

Pedantically, doesn't the word 'between' mean inclusive unless expressly stated otherwise?

 

[35B]

Pedantically, doesn't the word 'between' mean inclusive unless expressly stated otherwise?

It can be read either way; my natural instinct was to read "between Whitechapel and Bond Street" as meaning "Tottenham Court Road, Farringdon and Liverpool Street" before clocking the real world absurdity of it.

 

[Recessio]

Pedantically, doesn't the word 'between' mean inclusive unless expressly stated otherwise?

I wouldn't read it that way - for example, the events between the First and Second World Wars do not include the First and Second World Wars themselves...

 

[Skimpot flyer]

For simplicity, they should have explicitly stated
Trains will not stop at
Whitechapel
Liverpool Street
Farringdon
Tottenham Court Road
Bond Street

 

[Katejo62]

I travelled in 3 or 4 times last week during the strike. The Elizabeth Line did stop at Liverpool St and Tottenham Court Road. Sometimes only the Dean St exit from Tottenham Ct Rd was open and I had to exit to overground station at Liverpool St to reach the Elizabeth Line but they were open.

 

[Recessio]

For simplicity, they should have explicitly stated
Trains will not stop at
Whitechapel
Liverpool Street
Farringdon
Tottenham Court Road
Bond Street

This would make much more sense