Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Overground, underground


So here's the new tube map (click on it to make it bigger) with the Overground lines separated out into named lines with their own colours. From this Autumn we'll have the following lines,

Liberty
Lioness
Mildmay
Suffragette
Weaver
Windrush

Each line name has a particular meaning, for example the "Lioness" line refers to our Women's football team and their achievements, the "Weaver line" has stops that include Liverpool Street, Spitalfields, Bethnal Green and Hackney all areas known for their importance to the textile trade. The "Suffragette line" celebrates celebrate how London's East End working-class community fought for women's rights, the line also runs to Barking, home of the longest-surviving suffragette, Annie Huggett, who died aged 103.

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