{"id":621019,"date":"2025-12-08T23:36:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/621019\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:36:26","slug":"the-capital-city-could-soon-be-getting-a-new-london-overground-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/621019\/","title":{"rendered":"The Capital City Could Soon Be Getting A New London Overground Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/shutterstock_2475369835-min-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"A London overground train pulled into a platform with high rise buildings in the background\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCredit: Tom Spender, Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>    Save<\/p>\n<p>London\u2019s trusty transport network is a topic that\u2019ll never fail to get me yapping. And today\u2019s transport talk comes in the form of a north London rail route that could soon become the <strong>latest London Overground line<\/strong>. The route in question currently runs from Moorgate to various spots in Hertfordshire, and <strong>Transport for London<\/strong> have formally applied to take over the train line and increase the number of services running along it.<\/p>\n<p>The railway line that could soon become the proud property of TfL is a section of the <strong>Great Northern route<\/strong> called the \u2018Great Northern Inners\u2019. The rail route runs from <strong>Moorgate to Alexandra Palace<\/strong> (via the likes of Essex Road and <a href=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/things-to-do-in-finsbury-park\/\" rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/things-to-do-in-finsbury-park\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_0\" data-category=\"click_internal\">Finsbury Park<\/a>) before splitting and heading to <strong>Welwyn Garden City<\/strong> and <strong>Stevenage via Hertford North<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The information comes from a <strong>Freedom of Information<\/strong> request (submitted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ianvisits.co.uk\/articles\/tfl-bids-to-take-over-moorgate-mainline-with-plan-to-increase-great-northern-services-85918\/\" rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.ianvisits.co.uk\/articles\/tfl-bids-to-take-over-moorgate-mainline-with-plan-to-increase-great-northern-services-85918\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_1\" data-tracked=\"1\" data-category=\"click_sales\" data-cp_smn_source=\"secretldn\" data-cp_smn_content=\"new-overground-line-north-london\" data-cp_smn_term=\"text_cta_1\">IanVisits<\/a>) detailing the business case that was proposed by TfL.<\/p>\n<p> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-179842 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/shutterstock_2167133361-1.jpg\" alt=\"an overground train stopped on the line\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\"  \/>Credit: Johnscoolphotos, Shutterstock <\/p>\n<p>The business case includes plans to double the number of off-peak services running from <strong>London to Welwyn Garden City<\/strong> from two to four per hour. TfL also plans to potentially increase the frequency of trains running on the <strong>Hertford North<\/strong> line to six per hour (which is supposedly the maximum number of train that the line can facilitate).<\/p>\n<p>If all goes to plan, 20 stations could be added to the<strong> London Overground network<\/strong>, including Finsbury Park, Essex Road, and Alexandra Palace. The proposal would require Transport for London to invest in station upgrades, as their branding, roundels, seating, ticket machines and departure display boards would all need to be<strong> TfL-ified<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The takeover would supposedly cost around <strong>\u00a347 million<\/strong> (more if Crews Hill were to be included in the upgrades). And if the proposed plans get the green light, the wheels could be fully in motion by <strong>autumn 2027<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the details provided in the Freedom of Information request <a href=\"https:\/\/tfl.gov.uk\/corporate\/transparency\/freedom-of-information\/foi-request-detail?referenceId=FOI-2712-2526\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/tfl.gov.uk\/corporate\/transparency\/freedom-of-information\/foi-request-detail?referenceId=FOI-2712-2526\" data-action=\"text_cta_2\" data-category=\"click_non_sales\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Tom Spender, Shutterstock Save London\u2019s trusty transport network is a topic that\u2019ll never fail to get me&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,17009,257,19658,10763,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-621019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-local-trip","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-public-transport-tickets","14":"tag-trip-travel","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115686578722950754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}