Croydon commuters using Transport for London’s Overground will today have been travelling on the renamed Windrush line, part of a network rebranding aimed at untangling the orange “spaghetti” of rail lines on London’s iconic Tube map.
All change: the bright red double line on the Tube map of the newly named Windrush line from West Croydon
But the £6.3million exercise has not passed without politically opportunist criticism from London’s Tories, while also having the effect of boiling the piss of racists and Islamophobes on social media.
The names were chosen after a two-year-long consultation, “through engagement with passengers, historians and local communities”.
London’s six London Overground routes have all been renamed and given different colours on the Tube map. The Windrush line, which runs from West Croydon to Norwood Junction, Clapham Junction, New Cross, Crystal Palace, through Surrey Docks to East London and on to Highbury and Islington, has been allocated a smart, London Bus-red double line.
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