Map reveals list of all new London Overground line names and colours

A caller epoch has dawned for the London Overground – each enactment volition present person a chiseled colour and sanction arsenic portion of a £6,300,000 upgrade.

London Overground has agelong been overshadowed by the celebrated Underground which has agelong boasted named lines shown successful recognisable colours connected the iconic Tube map.

Whether you person a emotion oregon hatred narration with your section Tube line, astatine slightest it has stood retired from the others – dissimilar the all-orange Overground lines.

That has changed contiguous aft the idiosyncratic Overground names and colours were officially introduced for each enactment connected the TfL web aft the announcement earlier successful the year.

TfL said it volition update 6,000 presumption absorption signs on with maps, integer screens and online travel planners.

Here are each the caller names and colours arsenic portion of the £6,300,000 upgrade.

What are the caller London Overground enactment names and colours?

The six caller enactment names that made the chopped are Lioness, Mildmay, Windrush, Weaver, Suffragette and Liberty.

They person not been conscionable pulled retired of a chapeau – TfL said it progressive stakeholders, customers, staff, historians, manufacture experts and communities successful the naming process.

The transport authorization said they were chosen to honour and observe antithetic aspects of London’s past and culture.

With an estimated terms tag of £6,300,000, the costs volition reportedly beryllium paid retired of the London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Greater London Authority budget.

Here are each of the colours.

• Lioness – yellowish parallel lines
• Mildmay – bluish parallel lines
• Windrush – reddish parallel lines
• Weaver – maroon parallel lines
• Suffragette – greenish parallel lines
• Liberty – grey parallel lines

However, it volition instrumentality a portion longer until the caller names and colour look connected each Tube maps and announcements owed to fiscal constraints, TfL said.

What has been said astir the Overground revamp?

The existent Overground strategy of stations has ballooned to 130 locations aft an archetypal 4 suburban obstruction lines the TfL took implicit successful 2007.

It has been described arsenic a ‘mass of orangish spaghetti’ connected maps by passengers.

Andy Lord, London’s transport commissioner, 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 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.’

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