By and large the London transport system is pretty unremarkable in terms of names. Unlike the Paris metro on which stops are sometimes named after battles (like Sébastopol) or individuals (Franklin D Roosevelt) a line or a stop in the London network is normally noncommittal.
The Northern line, self-explanatory; the Metropolitan for the oldest line. The nearest anyone got to politicising the network was Waterloo station and the naming of the Jubilee line after the late Queen’s Silver Jubilee, and the Elizabeth line also after her.
That was, until now. TfL has named six of its hitherto anonymous overground lines – the twin objectives being to help passengers get round the system and ‘showcasing London’s rich diversity.’
So, what do we get? We’ve got the Lioness’s line, running through Wembley, to celebrate the women’s team winning the Euro Women’s final in 2022, an event that few can now remember but is somehow good enough to immortalise with a railway line.
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