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The six lines will be called Lioness, Mildmay, Windrush, Weaver, Suffragette and Liberty. Mayor Sadiq Khan launches new London Overground lines and colours Skip to main content
The name proposed for this service in 2015 was the East London line. [3] 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. [4]
The line runs to Barking, home of the longest surviving suffragette Annie Huggett, who died at the age of 103 in 1996. It will be shown with double green lines on the map.
Transport for London (TfL) said it will update 6,000 station direction signs as well as maps, digital screens and online journey planners.
First proposed in the Mayor of London's £1.3trn London Infrastructure 2050 plan, the line would use some existing National Rail and London Overground lines, linked by stretches of new railway. Orbirail was a 2012 proposal for an outer "super loop" service roughly equivalent to a M25 for rail. The West London Orbital proposal makes use of some ...
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 ]
In October 2017, Transport for London began a public consultation on the construction of two new Overground stations, Hythe Road on the West London line and Old Oak Common Lane on the North London line. [5] [6] In December 2018, TfL stated that the construction of the two stations would be heavily dependent on securing government funding. [7 ...
The line names were chosen to honour and celebrate ‘different parts of London’s unique local history and culture’, Sadiq Khan said. London Overground rail lines get names and colours to ease ...