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.

  • HeartyBeast
    2•4 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•4 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.