London Overground

[andysays]

Been far too long coming, this:

TfL to 'spend £4million on naming each individual London Overground line'

TfL's budget for this financial year is now set

www.mylondon.news

I wonder if we'll get intereseting or boring names (and it will be names and not numbers or lettters).

The six current London Overground routes are:

1. Euston-Watford Junction
2. Stratford-Richmond/Clapham Junction
3. Gospel Oak-Barking Riverside
4. Highbury & Islington/Dalston Junction-New Cross/West Croydon/Crystal Palace/Clapham Junction
5. Liverpool Street-Enfield Town/Cheshunt/Chingford
6. Romford-Upminster

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No3 is already widely known as the Goblin line.

 

[A380]

Been far too long coming, this:

TfL to 'spend £4million on naming each individual London Overground line'

TfL's budget for this financial year is now set

www.mylondon.news

I wonder if we'll get intereseting or boring names (and it will be names and not numbers or lettters).

The six current London Overground routes are:

1. Euston-Watford Junction
2. Stratford-Richmond/Clapham Junction
3. Gospel Oak-Barking Riverside
4. Highbury & Islington/Dalston Junction-New Cross/West Croydon/Crystal Palace/Clapham Junction
5. Liverpool Street-Enfield Town/Cheshunt/Chingford
6. Romford-Upminster

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Liney McLineface obviously

 

[skyscraper101]

What are the odds on their being some royal fawning like with the Elizabeth line. The 'King Charles Line' etc.

Khan should name one after himself purely for the subsequent gammon rage lol.

 

[T & P]

The LTN Line.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

The Gospel Oak to Barking line is known as the Goblin line so that should definitely be made official.

Gospel Oak to Barking line - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Puddy_Tat]

how about the WatEus line?

(ETA - for Watford - Euston, in the way that the Bedford - St Pancras line was often referred to as the BedPan line in the days before it became Thameslink)

 

[Leafster]

how about the WatEus line?

The You what line?

 

[A380]

The Onedian Line - showing my age there.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

The Barking Gospel Line.

 

[Sue]

Safe money is on them all staying orange though. The brand is very well established.

Ginger. Well that's how we refer to the H and Islington - South line locally anyway...

 

[hash tag]

If we gave a nod to recent London Mayors, we could have the Johnson line.

 

[Maggot]

What are the odds on their being some royal fawning like with the Elizabeth line. The 'King Charles Line' etc.

Khan should name one after himself purely for the subsequent gammon rage lol.

The Wrath cos of Khan

 

[skyscraper101]

They should just kick it old school and call the Shoreditch to New Cross bit the 'East London line' like back in day.

 

[Dogsauce]

Can I suggest the following names for maximum gammon piss-boiling potential: Corbyn, Khan, Abbott, Markle, Sturgeon, Lineker.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

They should just kick it old school and call the Shoreditch to New Cross bit the 'East London line' like back in day.

(although snag is, some of the trains on the east london line now start on the north london line and go on to the south london line, and some of the trains on the west london line go on to the north london line)

 

[PR1Berske]

We have the newly proposed Overground Line names:

London Overground: New names for its six lines revealed

With each line given separate colours, the rebrand means major changes to London's famous Tube map.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[PR1Berske]

From that article:

"The new names of London's six Overground lines have been revealed, significantly changing the look of the famous Tube map.

Last August, Transport for London (TfL) announced it wanted to give the routes distinct identities to make it easier for passengers to navigate the network.

The services will become known as the Lioness line; the Mildmay line; the Windrush line; the Weaver line; the Suffragette line; and the Liberty line.

Each will also have its own colour.

TfL said it had worked with customers, stakeholders, historians, industry experts and local communities, with the names representing the areas the lines travel through, while marking London's history and cultural di"versity.

 

[andysays]

Be interesting to see to what extent those new names are taken up by the travelling public.

I'm not sure I'm going to take to referring to either the Weaver line or the Suffragette line (the two bits I travel on fairly frequently).

 

[pbsmooth]

Suffragette?! Not sure about some of these but maybe in time…

 

[klang]

Changes to be rolled out in August.

 

[klang]

Be interesting to see to what extent those new names are taken up by the travelling public.

With time....

 

[Sue]

Be interesting to see to what extent those new names are taken up by the travelling public.

I'm not sure I'm going to take to referring to either the Weaver line or the Suffragette line (the two bits I travel on fairly frequently).

They're a bit rubbish. Which is a shame as it's a good idea.

 

[andysays]

They're a bit rubbish. Which is a shame as it's a good idea.

Maybe we should come up with our own alternative names.

 

[klang]

They're a bit rubbish. Which is a shame as it's a good idea.

Thet should have just called them all the 'overground line'.

 

[andysays]

Thet should have just called them all the 'overground line'.

I think it's a good idea in principle to separate them out and give them each their own colour on the map, and even their own name. Not sure if the names chosen will gain acceptance or not.

Worth remembering that the Underground lines weren't originally known by the names they have now. I'm not sure without looking it up when those were dreamed up, though I would guess it was at a similar time to when the first underground map by Harry Beck was created.

 

[salem]

Those names are a red rag to a bull in the culture wars while also being a bit shit quite frankly.

They already had the goblin line as established by the users, catchy and a bit quirky - why on earth wouldn't you keep it.

The Liberty Line? As suggested by TfL?

I'd almost have preferred they called them King Charles lines 1 to 6 which is probably why as the next Conservative mayor will suggest.

 

[Plumdaff]

The only one of these I'm likely to travel on with any regularity is the Windrush Line, a name I like, but let's be honest, this will take a generation to bed in. Some of the other names are much worse. We'll be like our parents talking about listening to stuff on the 'wireless'; just off to get the 'Overground'.

 

[Yossarian]

New names are better than any royal-related crap - though if they had a Goblin line already, maybe they should have stuck with the theme and had Wyvern, Boggart, Redcap, Kelpie, and Ogre lines

 

[Sue]

They're pretty lazy I think. Meh.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Mixed feelings, but on brief reflection I am probably just immediately defensive about 'change'.
The names sound odd, but then maybe some of the others did at some point too. Better than more bollocks linked to the monarchy.
Future questions like "Dad, why is it called the windrush line?" "Why is it called the suffragette line" can only be a positive thing.

Ultimately, I don't really care that much, but it will be nice to see the lines separated. Still a bit peeved that the Windrush will be the same for the the clapham split etc.