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David Cantrell · October 17th 18, 10:04 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:54:55AM +0000, wrote:

That might be a valid excuse if it wasn't for the fact that the moorgate
branch was on the tube map for decades. And it was TfLs decision to have a
uniform colour for all the Overground routes when they could easily have
chosen seperate ones for the ELL, NLL and Goblin lines at the very least.

They couldn't really have different colours for the numerous Overground
lines, because they've pretty much run out of easily distinguishable
colours. Orange was only available because the old ELL used it. That
nonsense with having a narrow white strip in the middle doesn't really
cut it for distinguishing between, eg, two red lines, for someone who is
in a hurry and not intimately acquainted with the network.

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