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Instead of tube station names sponsored by companies, now you can have whole line sponsored by orange(tm) 
Sekula | Homepage | 06.09.06 - 9:54 a.m. | #
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interesting stuff. it does make these lines more prominent, especially to people just getting familiar with london. hell, i've been here for over two years and i just learned a few months ago about the line from euston through kilburn. and it is pretty easy to forget about the north london line, unfortunately. hopefully frequency of trains will be on par with those on other LU lines!
veronica | 06.09.06 - 11:23 a.m. | #
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Did they have the wrong kind of craic in Cricklewood or what? Is it now a "closed industrial city". Anyway, it's not on the map. But I still have to go there shortly to pick somebody up from the Silver Link line.
Ogden Gnash | Homepage | 06.09.06 - 12:10 p.m. | #
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Ogden Gnash,
Curious - especially as Ken lives there.
Pedantic of Purley | 06.09.06 - 1:09 p.m. | #
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Did anybody else get the Wombles theme tune "Underground Overground wombling free" the minute you read London Overground?
Just me then....
verity74 | 06.09.06 - 1:16 p.m. | #
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There is the non-TfL train from New Cross or Crystal Palace through Streatham Hill, Balham and Clapham Junction to Victoria. It's a little slow, but would make perfect sense on this map.
Ross | Homepage | 06.09.06 - 3:33 p.m. | #
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The North London thingy is exciting, cos of the big long tunnel that goes all the way under Hampstead. I would recommend it for any tunnel enthusiasts.
JonnyB | Homepage | 06.09.06 - 4:22 p.m. | #
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Dalston's my nearest station so I guess I should be excited by this, except it doesn't look as if anything's actually going to change except the signage for a long time yet.
We may get more staff and ability to use Oyster cards from 2007 (still a year away mind you) but new trains won't happen till 2009 and they may not actually be able to deliver on more frequent trains (the one thing that would actually be useful) because it depends in infrastructure developments that are out of TfL's remit! (Presumably something to stop trains getting held up everytime the London Overground line crosses one of the busy main lines leaving London from King's Cross, St Pancras, Euston, Paddington.)
Cal | Homepage | 06.09.06 - 5:50 p.m. | #
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Mr Geezer theres a mistake on the map and its very close to you! The New Langdon Park DLR station appears between Bow Church and Devons Road, when it should be between Devons Road and All Saints. Is there a spotters Badge for this?
Priest\\_Field | 06.09.06 - 8:01 p.m. | #
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Anything that gets the North London Line out of the dead grip of Silverlink would have to be a good thing ...
disgruntled commuter | Homepage | 06.09.06 - 8:37 p.m. | #
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No mention on the "2010" tube map of any potential croxley link, which is a slight dissapointment.
Another Andrew | 07.09.06 - 5:32 a.m. | #
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The New Cross to Victoria train actually runs from London Bridge but they're careful not to advertise the final destination too early in the journey in case people at Balham think the easiest way to get to London Bridge is to trundle through Crystal Palace et al.
A few years back I read a fascinating report by Lambeth Public Transport Group which demonstrated how by building stretches of track on open wasteland, sometimes just a couple of hundred yards long it would be possible to have a really clever network of overground trains.
I presume they were not working in a vacuum, and that absence-of-vacuum has been taken up by Ken.
Only possible with a Labour Mayor under a Labour Government
Gert | Homepage | 08.09.06 - 5:19 p.m. | #
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Remember what Tony Blair thought of Uncle Ken in 2000?
Inspector Sands | Homepage | 09.09.06 - 12:00 p.m. | #
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