On 2015\01\24 13:22, Peter Smyth wrote:
Basil Jet wrote:


I found this amateur map showing the tube map with most of the "new"
overground lines.

http://www.projectmapping.co.uk/Revi...A%20routes.gif

It's obviously not finished, but the cluster of orange lines around
Hackney is a disaster and will be hard to avoid even on a finished
version.

Also, the device on the official tube map at Clapham Junction is very
clumsy compared to Ealing Broadway, and Canonbury / Highbury &
Islington is very clumsy compared to East Ham / Barking.

I think it's about time the Overground was given line names and
different colours on the map. How about ...

I believe that is exactly what is planned from May. The names will be
rather more prosaic than your suggestions though (North London Line,
East London Line, Watford Line, Barking Line, Lea Valley Line).

Do you have any inside information on whether any stations will be
renamed? It just occurred to me that Bethnal Green NR station could do
with being renamed, since having two stations with the same name is a
bad idea, and I believe the London Fire Brigade agrees with me on that.

Renaming it Whitechapel North would encourage people to use it as a
route to the Royal London Hospital... anyone from, say, Clapton wanting
the Royal London Hospital could do worse than get a train to Bethnal
Green NR and walk.

Curiously the TfL journey planner won't allow you to walk from Bethnal
Green NR to Whitechapel... if you say no buses, no underground, no
overground, then it tells you to get NR to Liverpool Street, get a coach
to Stansted and then get another coach back to Whitechapel!