All six of London’s Overground lines are receiving caller names to marque the web easier to navigate — and the changes volition statesman connected Wednesday, November 20.
The web covers 113 stations crossed its six lines but, until now, it has been known arsenic the Overground and coloured successful orangish connected each Transport for London (TfL) maps.
The rebranding volition spot each conception fixed its sanction and a chiseled colour.
TfL volition update a tiny fig of Overground stations connected November 20, with the remainder being fixed their caller look connected Monday, November 25.
A phased attack volition past spot changes crossed the remainder of the web (including caller maps, accusation surface adjustments and caller PA announcements) rolled out.
Sign of the times: the renamed London Overground
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“In reimagining London’s Tube map, we are besides honouring and celebrating antithetic parts of London’s unsocial section past and culture,” London Mayor Sadiq Khan antecedently said.
“The caller names and colours person been chosen done engagement with passengers, historians and section communities, reflecting the practice and diverseness of our astonishing city.”
Here are each the names and colours you request to know.
The Euston to Watford Junction portion of the Overground, which calls astatine Wembley Central Station, volition present beryllium known arsenic the Lioness line. This is successful honour of the England women’s shot team, the Lionesses, that won the European Championship astatine Wembley Stadium successful July 2022.
The 2-1 extra-time triumph implicit Germany earned their archetypal large tourney victory. The Lioness enactment volition beryllium marked with yellowish lines connected the caller map.
Covering Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside, the Suffragette enactment was named to observe London's East End working-class assemblage warring for women's rights.
In a peculiar nod, the enactment runs to Barking, location of Britain’s longest-surviving suffragette, Annie Huggett, who died aged 103 successful 1996.
The Suffragette enactment volition beryllium marked with greenish parallel lines connected the map.
Marked with reddish lines and travelling betwixt Highbury & Islington and Clapham Junction/New Cross/Crystal Palace/West Croydon, the Windrush enactment honours the Windrush community. This refers to those who migrated to the UK from the Caribbean betwixt 1948 and 1971.
The enactment covers respective areas with beardown ties to Caribbean communities, including Dalston Junction, Peckham Rye and West Croydon. This enactment volition beryllium reddish connected the caller maps of London transport.
Running done Liverpool Street to Cheshunt/Enfield Town/Chingford, areas with precocious value to the textile trade, the Weaver enactment celebrates this important metropolis industry.
It volition beryllium marked with maroon lines connected the map.
Traversing Stratford to Richmond/Clapham Junction, the Mildmay enactment shares its sanction with a tiny charitable infirmary successful Shoreditch.
Mildmay Mission Hospital played a captious relation during the HIV/Aids situation of the 1980s, earning its spot among the London Overground name. This enactment volition beryllium coloured blue.
Running betwixt Romford and Upminster, the TfL described the Liberty enactment arsenic referencing "the humanities independency of the radical of the borough of Havering" and celebrating "a defining diagnostic of London".
It runs done the borough of Havering, among others, and volition beryllium marked with grey lines.