Naming the London Overground Lines
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We’re naming the six London Overground lines to make journeys simpler and brighter. Find out about the changes 🤩 🎉

TfL have announced official names and colours for the Overground lines:

We’re giving the lines on the London Overground names that celebrate London’s wonderful and varied cultural heritage. In this blog post, we tell you all about the names, the stories behind them and when the changes will come into effect.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•7 months ago

    I would say Liberty is the weakest by far. The rest I’m fairly happy with (after initially wondering why they didn’t bring back East London Line, or North London Line)

    • HeartyBeast
      2•7 months ago

      Sufragette feels a bit of a mouthful - I can see it becoming “The Suffy” or something. My feelings about ‘Liberty’ have probably been poluted by the way that some American extremists abuse the word.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•7 months ago

        We’ll see about Suffragette. The Metropolitan has two more syllables and doesn’t get abbreviated, but Lizzie does, and that has one less than Metropolitan.

        • HeartyBeast
          1•7 months ago

          Good point. I wonder if it’s because there’s not an obvious abbreviation. “The Metty”?