London Overground New Names

[brainiac]

The names of the six new London overground lines have been released:

Liberty, Mildmay, Lioness, Suffragette, Weaver, Windrush

I don't have any particular problem with their choices, but the new map looks rather daunting:

https://content.tfl.gov.uk/tube-map-with-the-new-lo-names.pdf

[Maydup]

I think that's why they've named the overground routes because it's all so busy and complex now. The map seems familiar but naming these might assist people when they arrive at a station I suppose.

personally I don't care for any of the names chosen. I'd feel happier with something more neutral and some might say boring names,  like colours or numbers.

[jno]

not half as daunting as the old maps, in which all the lines are in orange, none has its own name, and you wander through the carriage looking for the one showing which line you're on. They'll be distinguishable from tube lines by not being in solid colour.

The names are fine, a change from naming everything after the royals, though Lioness is a bit of a stretch.

[mushroom25]

// a change from naming everything after the royals //

which royal is the District Line named for? or the Bakerloo Line?

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[NoseyNose]

jno

Surely Lioness is after the womens football team?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_women%27s_national_football_team

[Peter Pedant]

Brainiac - you said you went to uni at 16 - can you say a bit more about that? ( I got in at 16 but waited 2 y)

what is in a name ?

Mildmay is a part of London -  Libert I think is just to annoy the Americans and French

[Buenchico]

For those who want to know the reasons behind the naming of each line:
https://madeby.tfl.gov.uk/2024/02/15/overground_line_names/?intcmp=75213

[jno]

mushroom, the three most recent lines have been the Victoria Line, the Jubilee Line and the Elizabeth Line. Some say the Victoria line is named after the station, which is named after the street, which was begun in the 1850s and could have been named after... anyone at all.

The exceptions are the Hammersmith and City Line and the Circle Line, which were just renamed lines that were already there.

Before that you have to go back to 1906, when a new line was not named after Prince Piccadilly. But I definitely see a pattern over the last more-than-100 years.

[jno]

Nosey, yes, it is. But I'm not happy with names commemorating something recent and perhaps fleeting. (If England win the next Ashes, will they rename it the Bazball Line?) The other names reflect genuine history rather than current affairs.

[Peter Pedant]

Mildmay was also involved in the EMS ( emergency medical service that  is! ) during the Blitz.

Mildmay and HIV - big discussion about single disease hospitals ( erm HIV that is!) - [ not things like " icky-boo tummy Hospital] and that wd allow the authorities to dismiss them as 'ghetto' hospitals - where no one wd go unless you were gonna die.

In fact the old infectious diseases hospitals ( fever hospital) took a lot of HIV cases ( and other infectious diseases)

[Buenchico]

From Wikipedia:
>>> The name "Victoria line" dates from 1955; other suggestions were "Walvic line" (Walthamstow–Victoria), "Viking line" (Victoria–King's Cross), "Mayfair line" and "West End line". During the planning stages, it was known as Route C and named the Victoria line (after the station) by David McKenna, Chairman of British Transport Advertising, whose suggestion was seconded by Sir John Elliot. The board decided that the Victoria line sounded "just right" <<<

I'd have gone with 'Viking Line'.  After all, National Rail's got a Bedpan Line (from Bedford to St Pancras) 😊

[jno]

the Jubilee Line was going to be the Fleet Line (and go along under Fleet St) until the brown noses turned up. I still have a "Don't Jubileeve It!" badge somewhere.

[Maydup]

I suppose I should be pleased they are not the Katherine, William, George, Charlotte and Louis Lines. 

[douglas9401]

If it wasn't for the fact that it's London I'd say 'First World problems'.

[Togo]

Very disappointing. Why is it not now called Trans Sport for London? 

[Old_Geezer]

I wasn't taking much notice of this news item, save to wonder if the lines already had names, why there was any need to change them. But I've just noticed the actual new names chosen. What a load of bull excreta ! Who was the idiot who chose that lot ?

[Hopkirk]

The London Overground spaghetti was very confusing.

[NoseyNose]

Buenchico,

Thank You for the link,re the names of the lines.

I realise that have an affinity for the Weaver line,as my ancestors were Huguenots!

They had a vineyard in Bordeaux,which still produces wine with our surname,Chateau *********.I was going to buy some,until a friend said"Oh,people would say that you had printed the bottle label on the Computer!"

There are two(small) Chateuax in Bordeaux with our family name,one in the city,and a Summer one right in the vineyards!

Maybe I should be like the guys in the ceased Communist countries,and go and claim my property back?

However,I think that it might be a bit late guys, as we haven't been in France since 1685! LOL