London

1050 readers

1 users here now

"who’d a thunk it"

For discussion about London including the surrounding Greater London area. Discuss all things from news, travel, culture, and general life around the capital and largest city of England!

Rules and other welcoming info can be found here.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Naming the London Overground Lines | TfL (madeby.tfl.gov.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would say Liberty is the weakest by far. The rest I’m fairly happy with (after initially wondering why they didn’t bring back East London Line, or North London Line)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good point. I wonder if it’s because there’s not an obvious abbreviation. “The Metty”?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It’s always been the Met line?