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

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I like what they were going for but Liberty Line feels like a bit of a cop out, named after "the freedom that is a defining feature of London". Better than just more monarch names though I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Liberty Line sounds like something american GIs would snort after clearing a town.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It’s always been the Met line?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it's a bit vague, really. Named after both the concept of freedom and the... medieval municipal administrative unit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Apparently it's the Liberty Line because the "we've spent far too much time trying to find something nice to say about Romford" Line wouldn't fit on the signs.