Great Eastern wrote:
1506 wrote:
This is something I have wondered for some time. The Overground name
is contrived.

Indeed, its also quite interesting the way the term 'overground' has
become a way of describing National Rail trains within London for some,
even if not run by LOROL.

Its fairly common on LBC 97.3 when callers phone in and talk about rail
services as overground trains.

People have been calling National Rail trains in London "overground" for
a lot longer than LOROL has existed. There was even an Overground
Network branding on a few routes, which lasted about as long as it took
for people to say "WTF are the new signs about?" - but many of the signs
are still there.

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK