‘Windrush’, ‘Suffragette’, ‘Lioness’ – This will be the new Tube map, following the announcement of new names for the London Overground lines by TfL and Sadiq Khan. Full story: bit.ly/3weAb8d

by SeldonMoore

18 comments

  1. Some cool, some strange. Colour change be cool. Not sure when going to Croydon I’m going to say let’s get the wind rush line. May need time to bed in.

  2. Horrendous names chosen only for their virtue points and not even close to being in keeping with the rest of the network, nothing whatsoever to do with their location and not even remotely memorable to make them distinctive from each other in a geographical sense.

    Just outright awful.

  3. Wow, looks like someone hired a diversity and inclusion consultant to come up with these awful names.

    Idk why they don’t just ask local people in a poll or something. We’d come up with much better names and for free.

  4. Hahaha worst most overtly political names ever.

  6. While I’m not a fan of some of the name choices, one interesting point is that the branding and presentation effectively makes the Elizabeth line just another Overground line, ending the notion that it its own special distinct mode.

  7. I’ll leave the name comments for everyone else, but in terms of design I feel that the east London line colour is too close to the Elizabeth line colour, so may confuse tourists. Would swap that colour with a branch that doesn’t intersect / go so close to it

  11. This is absolutely bloody brilliant.

    The overground is a complete pain in the arse to figure out service interruptions because the end points of the line don’t reflect the journey you’re on. Clapham junction can be reached via north west and south east routes. Having the same destination accessible from the same starting point that go through completely different routes causes constant confusion for anyone not familiar with the lines.

    Massive convenience for tourists too.

    Seeing gammons enraged because the new lines weren’t named after a genocide or a former millwall full back is a bonus.

  12. So all the complaints that the mayor said that TFL is underfunded, then they went on to decide to spend money on something frivolous. Why not use that money to for something that helps increase reliability?

  14. These names are indefensible to any right wing claims of wokeness infiltrating our institutions ffs. Utterly ridiculous names that have little to do with the history or location of the lines themselves.

  15. Horrendous names. What was wrong with their operational names (GOBLIN, NLL ect) or simply renaming them like other European cities do (Line A, B C etc)

  16. It used to be iconic and beautiful but it’s just a cluttered mess now.

  18. I did wonder if it was April Fool’s Day when I saw this appear on the news.

    What’s less of a joke is that this exercise cost over £6 million.

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