London Banter - Future Tube Map

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.

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).

4 months later, that appears not to be the case, although it's still
possible that these names will be used on signs within interchange
stations. Although the Overground long ago figured out a technique for
minimising the worry about what signs to use in interchange stations.

How about ...

The Goblin for the, er, Goblin.

The Trendy for the North London Line (what else can you call a line
that goes to Dalston and Camden). I guess the West London Line would be
part of the Trendy, although I'm not entirely happy about that.

The East / South London Line could be The Isambard (since Brunel
starts with the same letter as Bakerloo, and is the name of a university
elsewhere).

The DC line used to be called The Harlequin Line, although reusing
the letter H is not ideal, but the line already has a handy 2-letter
abbreviation. Having said that, the H&C is a mouthful and should
probably be renamed.

As for imminent additions to the Overground,

Liverpool Street to Cheshunt / Enfield Town - the Ermine (after
Ermine Street).

Liverpool Street to Chingford - the Forest Line (since the original
Forest Line plan will presumably not be built now).

I can't think of a name for the Romford - Upminster single-track
line, although I'm tempted to go for The Only Way I suppose the Emerson
Park Shuttle would do, since the line is discussed so rarely it hardly
needs a snappy name. I'm not sure it will be on the tube map.

As for colours, the tube colours can be reused but with a white
stripe in the middle. The lines can be arranged such that the Overground
and Underground lines with the same colour don't meet.

So T coloured as W, I orange as now, G same as J, E as P, F as D.

The DLR services should be advertised as four white-striped lines:

Beckton - Stratford / Tower : ExCeL Line, (X for short) - use B colour

Woolwich - Stratford / Bank : Airport Line (use V colour)

Stratford - Canary Wharf / Lewisham : Zulu Line (after Zulu Time)
(use M colour, dashed south of Canary Wharf)

Bank - Lewisham : Riverbank Line (use Central colour)

BTW. My spellchecker tries to turn Isambard into Disembark