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Dr. Furface
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I get the point but really don't like these changes. The names at least are more considered than the usual royal shite.
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That looks much better then the current Overground map, will be interesting to see how it fits into the wider tube map
surreybrowncap
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andysays
Love and solidarity
I think that works better than the current map, making it easier to separate out the different lines currently all lumped together as the Overground.
It also worth remembering that's it's showing about twice as many lines and stations as the Beck map, so no surprise that it's still a bit cluttered in places.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
yep, regulars already called the Gospel Oak - Barking Line, the Goblin - that will probably stick. Is that the Mildmay line now? that is a bit mehmay
andysays
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The Goblin Line is now the Suffragette Line.
The Mildmay is the one from Stratford to Richmond, the one that used to be the North London Line.
That's the real problem with the new names, they have no clear geographical significance
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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The Jackie Weaver line looks too much like the Windrush when next to each other.
Silas Loom
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Mildmay is a proper geographical name. Eponym originally, but now very much Islingtonian.
Silas Loom
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If they had reified Goblin, everyone would be happy.
andysays
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I know (though many won't) where Mildmay Road and Mildmay Estate are, but it still seems unclear why a line that goes from Stratford to Richmond should be named this way.
And why that one, and not the other line which goes through Highbury & Islington and Canonbury?
I'm not sure if the tube line names will have sounded peculiar when new, but I don't like the sound of these.
What we have at present for tubes all sounds quite anonymous, with the exception of royal related names. All of these have meanings.
I'm not saying that is right or wrong, it just sounds different to what I am used to.
The East London Line was a previous name of what is going to be the Mildmay Line. That could have been re-used quite easily.
What we have at present for tubes all sounds quite anonymous, with the exception of royal related names. All of these have meanings.
I'm not saying that is right or wrong, it just sounds different to what I am used to.
The East London Line was a previous name of what is going to be the Mildmay Line. That could have been re-used quite easily.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Yeah, got mixed up there , Mildmay is a place tbf , but there isn't a Mildmay station .
Or Blood Bowl teams so: Goblin, Halfling, Chaos Dwarf, Norse, Nurgle and Skaven.
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Or makes of meat pudding. Goblin, Fray Bentos …
maomao
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I've always called the Liberty Line 'the Harry Potter line" because it leaves from a secluded platform and is a bit weird. But at least it has a name now because in conversation it has always been called 'you know, the little train that just goes to Upminster and back all day'. Used to enjoy it being part of my commute (though I prefer my current commute).
maomao
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Well one end of it meets the Elizabeth line anyway. Locals just call it 'the train' though (as opposed to the liberty line which currently requires explanation).
skyscraper101
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I'm not enamored with the names but as Crispy says the names are largely irrelevant. It's the distinction between the different routes what counts.
I'd have called the 'Liberty line' something a bit more relevant though. Maybe the Underworld line, as in "...mega mega going back to Romford"
I'd have called the 'Liberty line' something a bit more relevant though. Maybe the Underworld line, as in "...mega mega going back to Romford"
It could be the Stanford line.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
hmm
the choice of names will piss off the gammonsphere, and doing it at all will piss off the contingent who argue that anything that TFL does (either at all, or under the currrent mayor) is 'a waste of money'
agree that it probably wanted something doing - journeys that involve catching the overground, changing to the overground at clapham junction (or wherever) could be difficult to explain.
bits of the overground used to be the east / west / north / south london lines (although the extent they were known to the public as that varied), although the bit between wandsworth road and queens road peckham used to be the south london line, and those trains now join the east london line.
dunno really.
i may be out of date, but think the berlin S-bahn (nearest equivalent there to the overground) just has lines S1, S2 and so on. would O1, O2 etc have worked?
the choice of names will piss off the gammonsphere, and doing it at all will piss off the contingent who argue that anything that TFL does (either at all, or under the currrent mayor) is 'a waste of money'
agree that it probably wanted something doing - journeys that involve catching the overground, changing to the overground at clapham junction (or wherever) could be difficult to explain.
bits of the overground used to be the east / west / north / south london lines (although the extent they were known to the public as that varied), although the bit between wandsworth road and queens road peckham used to be the south london line, and those trains now join the east london line.
dunno really.
i may be out of date, but think the berlin S-bahn (nearest equivalent there to the overground) just has lines S1, S2 and so on. would O1, O2 etc have worked?
skyscraper101
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It would've felt out of step with the naming conventions for London train lines and I'm sure there'd have been a heck ton of complaints about it being too 'foreign'.
I'm not really feeling these names, but the fact they have names is at least in line with how TFL does this stuff.
Yossarian
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I think Vodafone etc. would probably have complained if there was an O2 line
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