Underground, overground Weavering free

Have we discussed the new names for the London overground rail lines?

London Overground: New names for its six lines revealed – BBC News

My quick take as a former native of the Weaver line:

Lioness line – Really? Bit soon innit?

Mildmay line – OK, if you say so.

Windrush line – Yep, this works.

Weaver line – What was wrong with Lea Valley line? Or the Chas and Dave line?

Suffragette line – Maybe, but why not the Pearly line?

Liberty line – Oh, I don’t **** know.

Overall, even as something of a leftie libtard, it smacks of an out-of-control focus group and it’s too focused on the city vs. the places the lines go.

Suffragette has too many syllables.

Lioness is lame, assuming it’s the football connection

And Mildmay? Huh?

Here is how the underground lines got their names, maybe we could try some of the same ideas?
https://londonist.com/2015/08/how-the-tube-lines-got-their-names

Would make a bit more sense & be more helpful/memorable to name them based more on where they go than some tormented connection, but then again “Jubilee” & “Elizabeth” lines don’t follow that pattern.

Anyone get confused by the Bond st temporary rename Burberry recently? What a cluster **** that was.

Most seem to be based on abbreviations of the stations they serve so perhaps:

Watford Junction > Euston = Wat-Use
Richmond > Straford – Rich-ford
Highbury & ISlington > West Croydon = His-don
Liverpool St > Enfield Town = Live-town
Gospel Oak > Barking Riverside = Oak-Bark
Romford > Upminster = Romf-Up

I saw Wat-Use and thought the rest might be amusing but I failed.

For the first time ever, our six Overground lines are each getting a new name and colour.

Read more about the inspiration and meaning behind each new name ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/gnDUfutNgp

— Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (@MayorofLondon) February 15, 2024

Twitter thread from Sadiq Khan earlier. I like it, it’s got all the gammons massively riled so it’s got to be a good thing.

Does the Windrush line take you home without your consent?

it’s got all the gammons massively riled so it’s got to be a good thing.

But when even the leftie snowflakes are a bit WTF about it, I’m not sure it has got to be a good thing.

Real life isn’t as polarised as Twitter.

The anti-monarchist part of me thinks this is good, for too long I’ve been forced to use lines and stations named after kings and queens and even one commemorating a queen’s anniversary. :-)

Windrush is the river, I assume, I guess they could have referenced some of the other ‘lost’ rivers, but that would need some local connection to the rivers, and without diving into that rabbit hole, I don’t know if it would work.

As someone who lives literally a hundred miles from the city, I honestly have no opinion and really I don’t care for that reason. It’s entirely up to London’s residents to make any decisions regarding the infrastructure of their city and how it’s named.

Should’ve thrown it to a public vote. What could possibly go wrong there.

Liney McLineface?

My views don’t matter… but I’ll share them anyway… why change…

Lioness line – This is just lame.

Mildmay line – Hard to say.

Windrush line – This is the best one, by a long way, in every way.

Weaver line – It’s a name, I can say it, I can remember it, it’ll do.

Suffragette line – Suffrage line is easier to say, perhaps less understood.

Liberty line – Sounds American.

The filthy leftie socialist rag has come up with their take on it. 😉

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/15/angry-tories-windrush-line-woke-rail-routes-suffragette?CMP=share_btn_tw

“Weaver Line” named after Jackie Weaver right?

Personally, as someone from the West of England, who lives a hundred miles from London, I have no dog in this fight, but a do have a suggestion that would fit quite nicely, and that’s naming these lines after some of the ‘lost’ underground rivers of London, here’s a list of eleven:

Counter’s Creek

Effra

Falconbrook

Fleet

Hackney Brook

Neckinger

Peck

Stamford Brook

Tyburn

Walbrook

Westbourne

There’s also a bunch of tributaries, like Black Ditch, Moselle, Lorteburn, River Quaggy, Graveney, Beverley Brook, Sudbrook.

Does the Windrush line take you home without your consent?

Could be worse…. It could take you to Tilbury.

dakuan
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“Weaver Line” named after Jackie Weaver right?

Sigourney, for her work on Alien

Cringingly awful but exactly what you’d expect from that piece of work.

Best take a pair of scissors.

https://baslag.fandom.com/wiki/Weaver

should have gone the whole hog and given Gbeebies & the fail (though they are outraged!)  a complete melt down and named them after Napoleons most famous victories.

Putting the tf in TfL!

the names are a bit meh,  i really couldn’t give AF about the names of the existing lines and ive used them for many years

but they have triggered the gammons (most of whom live nowhere near London) so spectacularly, that I quite like them, of course they do seem to hate kahn with a religious fervour so whatever he named them they’d be frothing

eg

Cringingly awful but exactly what you’d expect from that piece of work.

ultimately the names are irrelevant, but adding colour to the overground map is long overdue and that will be really useful

Sigourney, for her work on Alien

Do the trains come at night, mostly?

The names all have a lot of significance and it’s all ways good to try something different. A few seem slightly odd to say though

Do the trains come at night, mostly?

Late at night is when they don’t come, mostly…

😉

As a Londoner who uses four of the lines on a regular basis, I like the new names. A lot simpler when trying to explain how to use the Overground system to others. And if they anger ignorant bigoted right wingers, all the better.

The  truly offensive naming of a line is what they gave to the Purple line. Thankfully most people refer to it as just that. Perhaps one day it too can be renamed to something more appropriate to London.