I have read with interest all the comments about the new names for the London Overground lines. Having been born in Romford, in the ancient Liberty of Havering, I welcome the naming of the Romford to Upminster line as the Liberty line. My father and uncle attended the Royal Liberty School in Gidea Park. The Liberty line is of course part of the old London Tilbury & Southend (LTS) line. When I lived there I was always a bit puzzled why the "No trespassers" signs at Gidea Park said "London North Eastern Railway", whereas those on the line between Romford and Upminster said "Midland Railway". The line which is now platform 1 at Romford even had a separate station entrance. I guess it got cut off at some point when the District Line was electrified and trains could no longer run through from Tilbury. It was not possible to buy tickets to stations on the LTS such as Chalkwell from stations on the LNER such as Gidea Park, even in the 60s when they were both part of BR Eastern Region. There were at least two attempts to close that line. For a long time a DMU had to come down from somewhere near Ipswich every day to operate it. Eventually electrified.
I am also proud of my Huguenot ancestry when my 7 x great grandparents, silk weavers from Paris came over to Spitalfields in the late 17th century. Many of the weavers houses are still there with their large windows at 2nd floor level to let in the light. There is a recreated weaver's family house there open to the public. I have an embroidery hanging on my wall made in 1791 by my ancestor whose father was a weaver until the weaving business collapsed, when he became a butcher! So I fully support the Weaver line.
My grandmother was born and raised in Forest Gate living in Lorne Road, right next to Wanstead Park station on the new Suffragette line She would have been one of the first group of ladies to benefit from the right to vote.
Admittedly the former East London Line and the former North London Line have names that are a bit contrived. But the Windrush line is so much better than what was left of the East London line when it was part of the Metropolitan Line. I once had a guided tour of the Thames Tunnel. The tour guide arranged at Rotherhithe station for the tunnel lights to be switched on, then hailed the driver of the next northbound train, and asked him to take it through at walking pace, so that we could see all the preserved Victorian architecture, doric columns and all. The group alighted at Wapping, much to the bemusement of the ordinary passengers. I wonder if you could do that today?
At Camden Road on the Mildmay line, you can stand well back from the station building, and see clearly the name of the station "Camden Town" and "North London Railway" in the stonework. Mildmay is a good name for the line. All they need to do now is build a new station where Mildmay Park station used to be. That line has a rich but maybe chequered history. My daughter referred to it as the "smelly" line when she used it to commute in the Silverlink days. Something about the personal hygiene of the average passenger I think.
There was mention somewhere in this very long thread about sections of line which were reinstated to create the London orbital line. Everyone knows about the length between Shoreditch and Dalston, but I'm not sure anyone mentioned the length between Old Kent Road Junction and Silwood Junction which closed in 1911 with the rails lifted in 1913, but relaid and reopened in 2012 for London Overground. I have once availed myself of a TravelCard for the sole purpose of travelling all the way round from Stratford to Clapham Junction, and then onwards to Stratford again, all the way round. Lunch was a picnic at Willesden Junction.