Taking the Tories' likely candidate for London Mayor into consideration, should she by some awful chance win the next mayoral election, I'd fully expect her to rename one of the Overground lines after her heroine, and rename the others after things that would appeal to her part of the electorate, the Empire Line is a contender.
Indeed, and I would have also distinguished the lines in a way that keeps a similar hue for each service group. For example, if Overground was just the GOBLIN, North and East London Lines, I would have used a darker orange for the former two and a lighter orange for the latter. TfL Rail with the Elizabeth Line, Watford DC Line, Romford - Upminster shuttle and Lea Valley Lines could have used variations of purple for each route.
"The son". With that logic Queen Elizabeth was evil because her ancestors inslaved alot of people?
A more apt comparison would be with Yerkes' original UERL lines but yes, you're right. Naming them is an excellent idea on paper, but, the controversy aside, the execution is rather lacking. I can certainly see people getting mixed up between whichever the blue line is and the DLR.
What's bad about that? Same logic as the Bakerloo, but funnier.
Doesn’t that also apply to “Lioness”? It’s supposed to refer to Wembley links, so outsiders will assume that’s the line you need for wembley?
Its stupidly confusing. Tell someone they need to change to the Suffragette line, the double green line one, but they need to know it’s Orange Overground as well.
They have to keep ‘line’ because they choose stupid names that look silly on their own, and are possibly confusing.
Well to be fair, the Underground lines are named too, and I don't think anyone would advocate getting rid of that.
You need to replace every single sign.
Sadly I think you're probably right.You know being a grumpy Northern sod, I couldn't give a stuff what London calls it's lines. But now that the boy wonder Khan has spent millions of quid renaming some with these names, every Labour mayor in the country is going to want to do the same. I can't wait for Labour to come in and spend more time and effort in inclusive branding than actually improving services...
I highly doubt it as the same units are used on several different lines. Only the 710/1 & 378/1 are used on the same lines but I imagine they'll all keep the same Overground livery.
Apologies- I was having a "Mandela effect" moment and thinking of the World Cup during 2023.
I was thinking of the Women's World Cup which took place in 2023, in which England lost to Spain in the final.
That would certainly help with overcrowding!
Similarly to how tube trains all have a red-and-blue Underground livery, yes. We are told PA announcements will be re-recorded, so I assume the line/route names will be displayed on the in-car displays and maybe on the sides of the train.
I know the Overground, like the Tube, is predominantly north of the Thames. My point is that if, as often discussed, all suburban NR lines in the capital become part of the Overground, someone is going to have to sort out the tangle of routes.
They have names
I think most of the lines south of the Thames are used very heavily. It is not going to be possible to add more frequency. One idea touted in the past was to simplify routes so there were more changes required for many journeys but a better frequency. That might make for more resilience.
