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More than nine months after details were revealed about the London Overground’s rebrand, it’s now officially happening. The Overground’s splurge of orange is being divvyed up into six new lines, each with its own name and colour – and the rebrand starts tomorrow (November 20).
Transport for London says a ‘small number’ of stations will start seeing the new lines and colours from Wednesday, November 20, and that most stations will be updated from next Monday, November 25. Some Overground commuters may have already noticed changes to the network. Bits of signage had been taken down on trains and at stations this morning (November 19), prepping for the rebrand.
The rebrand will require TfL to update a whopping 6,000 way-finding signs and update 113 Overground stations, as well as change in-train maps across the fleet. All stations will need new tube maps, while online and app versions of maps will also require changing.
Not all screens and announcements will be updated in the initial roll-out. On the Overground’s Class 378 trains, which run on the Lioness, Mildmay and Windrush lines, audiovisual passenger information system will be upgraded in the coming weeks, but other lines will see the full changes by January 2025. Digital channel updates, including on the TfL website and TfL Go, will be changed by mid-December.
If you need a refresh, here are the new Overground line names and colours:
- Lioness (Watford Junction to Euston) – yellow
- Mildmay (Richmond and Clapham Junction to Stratford) – blue
- Windrush (Highbury & Islington to New Cross, Clapham Junction, Crystal Palace and West Croydon) – red
- Weaver (Liverpool Street to Enfield Town, Cheshunt and Chingford) – maroon
- Suffragette (Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside) – green
- Liberty (Romford to Upminster) - grey
You can find a full guide to the lines, including their meanings and what they look like on a map, here.
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