LO line name changes roll-out

[Recliner]

From

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/london-overground-name-changes-to-start-tomorrow-77152/

In total, it’s taking nine days for the makeover to be completed.

TfL says that the name change has required them to update around 6,000
station wayfinding signs, Tube maps, station digital screens, onboard train
information, Journey Planner and TfL Go. Audio and visual announcements on
trains and stations will also be updated.

The new names and colours are:

Lioness (running from Watford Junction to Euston) – yellow

Mildmay (running from Richmond and Clapham Junction to Stratford) – blue

Windrush (running from Highbury & Islington to New Cross, Clapham
Junction, Crystal Palace and West Croydon) – red

Weaver (running from Liverpool Street to Enfield Town, Cheshunt and
Chingford) – maroon

Suffragette (running from Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside) – green

Liberty (running from Romford to Upminster) – grey

Although most stations and trains will be updated by the end of the month,
the audiovisual passenger information system on the newer Class 710 trains
will follow by January 2025.

[Marland]

Post by Recliner
From
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/london-overground-name-changes-to-start-tomorrow-77152/
In total, it’s taking nine days for the makeover to be completed.
TfL says that the name change has required them to update around 6,000
station wayfinding signs, Tube maps, station digital screens, onboard train
information, Journey Planner and TfL Go. Audio and visual announcements on
trains and stations will also be updated.
Lioness (running from Watford Junction to Euston) – yellow
Mildmay (running from Richmond and Clapham Junction to Stratford) – blue
Windrush (running from Highbury & Islington to New Cross, Clapham
Junction, Crystal Palace and West Croydon) – red
Weaver (running from Liverpool Street to Enfield Town, Cheshunt and
Chingford) – maroon
Suffragette (running from Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside) – green
Liberty (running from Romford to Upminster) – grey
Although most stations and trains will be updated by the end of the month,
the audiovisual passenger information system on the newer Class 710 trains
will follow by January 2025.

Thought TFL was broke, how much is this exercise costing?
When TFL comes to the government with the begging bowl because Diversity
and Wokeness
has turned London into a City people no longer wish to work in and not a
small number moving out to live elsewhere if they get opportunity has lead
to a drop in passengers they should be told to go and swivel on it.

GH

[Recliner]

Post by Marland

Post by Recliner
From
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/london-overground-name-changes-to-start-tomorrow-77152/
In total, it’s taking nine days for the makeover to be completed.
TfL says that the name change has required them to update around 6,000
station wayfinding signs, Tube maps, station digital screens, onboard train
information, Journey Planner and TfL Go. Audio and visual announcements on
trains and stations will also be updated.
Lioness (running from Watford Junction to Euston) – yellow
Mildmay (running from Richmond and Clapham Junction to Stratford) – blue
Windrush (running from Highbury & Islington to New Cross, Clapham
Junction, Crystal Palace and West Croydon) – red
Weaver (running from Liverpool Street to Enfield Town, Cheshunt and
Chingford) – maroon
Suffragette (running from Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside) – green
Liberty (running from Romford to Upminster) – grey
Although most stations and trains will be updated by the end of the month,
the audiovisual passenger information system on the newer Class 710 trains
will follow by January 2025.

Thought TFL was broke, how much is this exercise costing?
When TFL comes to the government with the begging bowl because Diversity
and Wokeness
has turned London into a City people no longer wish to work in and not a
small number moving out to live elsewhere if they get opportunity has lead
to a drop in passengers they should be told to go and swivel on it.

I dislike the desperately-woke new names, but there’s not much doubt that
the lines did need official names. The LO route map is very confusing
otherwise. So the cost would have been incurred anyway.

But, like many people, I’d have much preferred names based on geography or
convention. So, for example, the ‘Suffragette’ line should obviously have
been the Goblin. The new name is desperately contrived (‘The Suffragette
line celebrates the working-class movement born in the East End that fought
for votes for women. Barking was home to Annie Huggett, the longest
surviving Suffragette.’). By all means celebrate the Suffragettes in some
appropriate London location, but not on a line whose route actually has no
connections with them:

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/the-suffragettes/