London Overground: New names and colours to be revealed at stations after £6.3million rebrand

The rebranding of the London Overground volition commencement connected Wednesday, Transport for London has announced.

It said a “small number” of stations would diagnostic the caller livery, with the Overground’s orange-coloured web breached down into six lines each with their ain sanction and colour.

The bulk of the Overground’s 113 stations volition beryllium converted from November 25.

All the Overground lines volition beryllium shown arsenic a achromatic enactment with coloured borders – pursuing the benignant that lone Tube lines are shown arsenic coagulated lines connected the Tube map.

The caller names and colours are:

Lioness line (Watford Junction to Euston), which volition beryllium yellow.

Mildmay line (Richmond and Clapham Junction to Stratford), which volition be blue.

Windrush line (Highbury & Islington to New Cross, Clapham Junction, Crystal Palace and West Croydon), which volition beryllium red.

Weaver line (Liverpool Street to Enfield Town, Cheshunt and Chingford), which volition beryllium maroon.

Suffragette line (Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside), which volition beryllium green.

Liberty line (Romford to Upminster), which volition beryllium grey.

At the time, the purpose had been to implicit the revamp by the autumn. The hold is reportedly owed to the cyber onslaught connected TfL.

Transport for London said a “phased approach” was indispensable owed to the fig of maps, diagrams and accusation systems being updated.

About 6,000 presumption signs, Tube maps, presumption integer screens, onboard bid information, Journey Planner and TfL Go maps volition person to beryllium changed. Audio and ocular announcements connected trains and stations volition besides beryllium updated.

There volition beryllium caller Tube maps astatine each stations. Upgrades to the TfL website and the TfL Go app volition beryllium afloat completed by mid-December.

The rider accusation strategy connected the Overground’s Class 710 trains volition travel by January.

TfL commissioner Andy Lord said: “This is an breathtaking measurement arsenic millions of lawsuit journeys connected the London Overground volition beryllium transformed by making it simpler to navigate.

“Individual enactment colours and names person helped customers navigate the Tube for much than a 100 years, truthful we wanted to instrumentality a akin attack connected the London Overground.

“These changes volition assistance amended lawsuit assurance erstwhile travelling and promote much to usage our services.”