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London Overground lines have all been coloured orange on TfL maps since the network was created in 2007, when the transport authority took control of services on four suburban rail lines ...
In July 2023 TFL announced that it would be giving each of the six London Overground lines unique names by the end of 2024. [3] [4] [5] In February 2024, it was confirmed that the Watford DC line would be named the Lioness line, to honour the England women's national football team who became European champions at Wembley Stadium in 2022, and would be coloured yellow on the updated network map.
London Overground (also known simply as the Overground) is a suburban rail network serving London and its environs. Established in 2007 to take over Silverlink Metro routes, it now serves a large part of Greater London as well as Hertfordshire, with 113 stations on the six lines that make up the network.
The line transferred to become part of the London Overground network in May 2015 and services were again provided by a single Class 315 unit. [18] Sunday service was restored from the 13 December 2015 timetable.
The name proposed for this service in 2015 was the 'North London line'. [4] In 2021, Sadiq Khan announced that if re-elected as Mayor of London, he would give the six services operated by London Overground unique names that would reflect London's diversity, working with his Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm. [5]
This included services between Liverpool Street and Enfield Town, Cheshunt, and Chingford, which were transferred from Greater Anglia to London Overground in 2015. The name proposed for this service in 2015 was the 'Lea Valley line', the established name used for the lines on which this service operates. [6]
The Gospel Oak to Barking line, [5] also shortened to GOBLIN, [6] is a railway line in London. It is 13 miles 58 chains (22.1 km) in length and carries both through goods trains and London Overground passenger trains, connecting Gospel Oak in north London and Barking Riverside in east London.
The Windrush line is the service operated by London Overground on the East London line and South London line, running north to south through the East, Docklands and South areas of London. The East London line was previously a line of the London Underground. Prior to the name being adopted in November 2024, [1] the service was labelled in ...