On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Roy Badami wrote:

Subject says it all. Is London Overground part of the National Rail,
network, or not?

You've had a salvo of answers on this specific question, to which i won't
add.

The observation that triggered the question was seeing, on one of the
maps on board a tube train, a station showing an interchange opportunity
with London Overground, but *not* showing the National Rail symbol
against the station name. Which would seem to imply not.

Which map, and which station?

TfL do have policies about what symbols get shown. For signs outside
stations (ones they run, at least), it says [1]:

Where a station is owned by London Underground, but has separate
platforms for London Overground trains

The totem outside the station will lead with an Underground roundel
followed by an Overground roundel and National Rail logo (where the
Overground network is not part of the National Rail network, no National
Rail logo is to be used).

But the rules for line diagram design [2] say:

(always display National Rail logo at Overground stations)

Now, AIUI at the moment there are no bits of the LO network which is not
part of the NR network, so both these rules mean the same thing in
practice, and both disagree with the map you actually saw.

However, if it was a network map rather than a line map, then it wouldn't
really be covered by either, and i can't find the rules for network maps.

tom

[1] http://www.tfl.gov.uk/microsites/int...rd-issue04.pdf
[2] http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...rd-issue03.pdf

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