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Mayor Khan's rebranding sees London's Overground metro lines named for political ideas, social issues, and migration.

LONDON (AP) — For anyone with even a passing acquaintance with London, the city's Tube map is as iconic as the red buses or the black cabs.

Lioness, Windrush and Suffragette are among new names in for London Overground lines, which now have their own names and colours

The London Overground has been revamped, with the six separate lines which make up the network each being given a new name.

When she formally opened the Victoria line in 1969, the Queen became the first reigning monarch to ride on the London Underground. Other suggested names included the Viking line.

TfL has renamed its London Overground lines, with a piece of LGBTQ+ history honoured in the new Mildmay Line.  The line, which runs between Richmond,

Sadiq Khan has announced six new names for the previously boringly-named Overground. The practical point of it is that the Overground goes everywhere and is quite confusing to navigate if you’re an occasional visitor. Breaking up the orange (which only stayed that way because Boris Johnson liked it being the same colour when he was

For anyone with even a passing acquaintance with London, the city's Tube map is as iconic as the red buses or the black cabs. But for the past few years, there's been something not quite right about the map originally designed by Harry Beck in 1933 — a collection of orange train lines, mostly orbiting the city, known as the London Overground.

Six new names and colours have been revealed for the rebrand of the London Overground rail lines. The six lines will be renamed to Liberty, Lioness, Mildmay, Suffragette, Weaver and Windrush, Sadiq Khan announced on Friday, 15 February. The London Mayor has said they celebrate “different parts of London’s unique local history and culture.” The current map of the lines has been likened to a mass of “orange spaghetti” but the six sections will appear on Tube maps as parallel lines once t...