Dave Arquati wrote:

Rather than opting for the brown "Rail" roundel, the branding scheme is
an orange (!) "Overground" scheme - not to be confused with South
London's "Overground Network" branding.

Trains and signs will have an orange trim, there will be an Overground
roundel almost identical to the Underground one but with an orange
circle (and obviously the different word).


Going back to the branding, all "Overground" lines will appear on the
Tube map, which TfL has released a sample of for 2010. Interestingly,
the line style (white centre with orange edges) looks much like the old
style used to show selected British Rail lines (like Thameslink and the
NLL) about fifteen years ago.

But why on earth have they lumped all the Overground lines together as
if they were one line. The Underground lines being different colours
and names makes it pretty clear where trains are going. But the
Overground lines as shown make it appear that you could, for example,
catch a train direct from West Croydon to Richmond or Clapham Junction
via Gospel Oak, should you want to. At the very least, the East London
Line Extension should run in to Highbury parallel to the line from
Stratford, and terminate there. In the same way as the Metropolitan
does at Aldgate or the District at Edgware Road.

Peter