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It's a prediction contest, so...
• just one suggestion, for one station, per person.
• first person with the name claims it.
• don't leave the 'Name' box blank.
Boring suggestion: OKR1 = Burgess Park.

Commercial suggestion: Naming rights to the biggest paying developer, which names it after themselves.
Sans developers I would have to agree with Malcolm's suggestion. In 2029 there will be no park, it'll have been replaced with Walworth International Towers or such like and that'll be the name of the station.
Another boring suggestion: Old Kent Road (if the other one is called something different)
Bricklayers Arms?, sadly its possible that neither of them will be called Old Kent Road.

I suspect TfL have already decided the names internally, and this is just a PR stunt.
Walworth
I also suggest calling OKR1 Burgess Park - makes complete sense to me. It's one of the largest green spaces in the area (though it's invisible on Google maps at the moment for some reason) and ought to be better known.
Bricklayer's Arms would be great, I vote for that
Well the name won't be anything short and useful, with Battersea now being called "Battersea Power Station Station", OK1 is going to have to be called "Tesco Southwark Superstore Station".

Right, i'll go and have my first tea of the day now. That might cut down on the cynicism.
As with the end of the 168 bus, I would suggest Old Kent Road, Tesco.
'Becket' for OKR1 has the merit of bringing in the name of the saint (the reason the Canterbury Pilgrims made their way down the OKR) and it is the familiar name of the local Thomas A Becket pub ("The Becket", closer than Burgess Park and actually on the OKR).

'Becket' has the advantage of three strong nouns in a short two-syllable word, easier to hear and understand during the usual echoing public address announcements.
I expect somebody will spot the proximity of OKR1 to Mandela Way, whether that street is, or a station in the vicinity would be, worthy of the man is open to question.
Burgess Park
OKR1: Mandela Way. After the nearby road. Also bigs up London's forward/outward-looking thing and the area's multicultural nature.
OKR1: East Street Market - as the council says 'East Street Market is one of London's oldest, largest and busiest markets and is as fondly visited now by local people as it has been for decades.' and it's just round the corner from the station.
Dunton Road
Old Kent Road West
Bermondsey West (option one)
David Copperfield
Dun Cow. After the famous pub, I mean surgery. Plus I think think it would be amusing to hope one stop from the Elephant to the 'Cow
'tube stop M'
Burgess Park
OKR1 - Frog & Nightgown (after a demolished pub, it would follow on well from Elephant & Castle)

There's also the World Turned Upside Down which is now a branch of Domino's Pizza (plus flats) but I doubt TfL would be up for a four-word station name.
Albany Road
Old Kentish Road

(in honour of the residents of West Kent)
OKR1 = East Walworth
OKR1 = Mandela
I'll go for Putin on this one
Donald J. Trump Station? Along the lines of Franklin D. Roosevelt metro station on the Champs Elysees
The next consultation is out, and it looks like we're down to a shortlist of two...

Burgess Park (Malcolm)
or
Old Kent Road (Andrew)











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