[Misc] London Overground lines renamed

[Anger]

Weaver line is the best.

Jackie deserves the honour (and after a while no-one will remember the real inspiration).

 

[Eeyore]

I think they missed a trick. The Mildmay line I would have called the Diana Line as she did so much to change the perspective on HIV. She also helped a lot of other good causes too.

I quite like the Weaver line thing having looked at it.

The Suffragette line, I would have called the Pankhurst line

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

The good news is that the renaming of the lines seems to have appeased the unions, who have now called off the planned strike on the Overground next week.

Maybe one line should have been called the Lynch Line to memorialise the role Mick has done to bring happiness to Londoners.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I'm a bit disappointed that the Suffragette line isn't coloured purple and green (I.e. the suffragette colours).

 

[clapham_gull]

This thread is resembling one arguing about the colours of Palace's new kit and sponsor.

 

[A1X]

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

what’s my line?

 

[jcdenton08]

Money well spent, lads.

 

[clapham_gull]

Money well spent, lads.

Manifesto promise and makes perfect sense to most Londoners like me.

 

[cunning fergus]

Manifesto promise and makes perfect sense to most Londoners like me.

Surely it would only make sense to spaff over £6m on these changes if Khan wasn’t warning Londoners that they face rising council tax bills (or increasing TfL fares).

Sadiq Khan warns Londoners city hall council tax bill will go up by almost £30

The Mayor of London has published a first draft of the Greater London Authority’s budget for 2023/24

www.standard.co.uk

As for promises in manifestos, surely any significant policies not included in them must mean there isn’t a valid democratic mandate and active resistance to them is acceptable.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/sadiq-khan-insists-ulez-mandate-27175790

 

[smillie's garden]

In all honesty, the only one I really like is the Windrush. I think that's a great name.

Suffragette seems okay, but the others aren't so striking for me.

The Lioness is very lame. I can see what they are trying to do, but I think a single Euro victory reminder could have been replaced with something more powerful.

Shame there isn't a cricket one in there. But I would say that, wouldn't I ?

Bodyline?

 

[Eeyore]

Bodyline?

Top marks 10/10

 

[Baldseagull]

Missed a trick, could have made money and opened them up for sponsorship, like football stadiums are.
Coca Cola would have been good, shortened to Coke line.
Foxtons Estate Agents, shortened to the Flat line.
B.T., The Telephone Line.
Persil, The washing line.
Then sponsors for the canals too, Cadbury maybe?

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

Bloody pointless. Really find all of this kind of thing very cringe and shoving things down our throat. I know that makes me sound Daily Mail anti progressive brigade, but it is just how I feel. Great British achievements would have been better, those within science, sport or other. Either the persons name of the achievement itself. Windrush is cool, mind.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Manifesto promise and makes perfect sense to most Londoners like me.

The democratic will of the people!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I remember the quite horrific Silverlink Metro which had individual line names like "North London Line" and " West London Line".

I occasionally used this when I lived in Camden. It was scary if used after dark.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Bloody pointless. Really find all of this kind of thing very cringe and shoving things down our throat. I know that makes me sound Daily Mail anti progressive brigade, but it is just how I feel. Great British achievements would have been better, those within science, sport or other. Either the persons name of the achievement itself. Windrush is cool, mind.

You have postage stamps for this.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Missed a trick, could have made money and opened them up for sponsorship, like football stadiums are.
Coca Cola would have been good, shortened to Coke line.
Foxtons Estate Agents, shortened to the Flat line.
B.T., The Telephone Line.
Persil, The washing line.
Then sponsors for the canals too, Cadbury maybe?

Hovis. The breadline.

 

[Grassman]

assume was a wind up then saw it was BBC and it all made sense.

Disappointed the trans haven't got a line. Could be large protests coming

I went on the trans-Siberian railway once. Came back a new woman.

 

[cunning fergus]

Bloody pointless. Really find all of this kind of thing very cringe and shoving things down our throat. I know that makes me sound Daily Mail anti progressive brigade, but it is just how I feel. Great British achievements would have been better, those within science, sport or other. Either the persons name of the achievement itself. Windrush is cool, mind.

The use of the term “Windrush” is childish at best, insulting at worst. For a start if it’s genuinely being referenced to the ship that docked at Tilbury then was the Empire Windrush. A ship originally built in Germany and used by that lot before the war, whilst during the war it was used to ship Jews from Norway to the their doom in Poland etc. A somewhat chequered and controversial history I suspect isn’t celebrated.

As for the belief in the concept of invitation and the skilled workers it brought on its fateful voyage this should be seen for what it was…………

Telegram about Windrush passengers - The National Archives

Telegram from the Acting Governor of Jamaica to the Secretary of State for the Colonies informing him of troop deck passengers booked on the Empire Windrush, 11 May 1948. Catalogue ref: HO 213/714 Find out what the term ‘troop deck passenger’ means. Does this telegram provide different...

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Uninvited chancers with no skills or money landing in U.K. for a better life. No invite at all, and if it wasn’t for Attlee they would likely have been shipped back. So better the Clement Attlee line.

And Tommy Flowers line while we’re at it.