As you may already be aware - details about London Overground’s new look were publicly released by TfL this morning. These changes are expected to be introduced across the London Overground network in Autumn 2024.
Please also see Made by TfL Blog post covering this.
Obviously this will significantly impact TfL Open Data users, and your apps/digital products which cover the London Overground network.
To provide some reassurance, we will be in touch over the next few weeks with information about design specifications + other guidelines, and more details on how we will be managing the changes to our open data that support this.
EDIT (20/03/24): We have recently created a London Overground lines blog providing digital standards guidance for suppliers and third party developers, who will need to adapt their apps/websites/digital displays to reflect the changes by end of September 2024.
If you have any concerns or questions relating to this, please add a comment to this post.
@SarahLS This is going to be like ‘LM’ West Midlands Trains => is split into [‘LMLN’ London Northwestern Railway’ , ‘LMWM’ West Midlands Railway in publicly material, but not in the timetable data or legality of tickets?
(I did this for LOROL in the past…!)
And so will we purge the London Overground name from the output totally and just show the we names or are these London Overground Subnames with new colours?
Status update information has been particularly confusing as LO has grown and grown. If they really are to be treated as separate lines it should help.
I would have kept the Goblin (as quite a few call it) line name but promoted it to official brand status. I can see that the traditional “North London Line” name is no longer specific enough.
SEE EDIT IN MAIN POST: 20/03/2024 We have recently created a London Overground lines blog providing digital standards guidance for suppliers and third party developers, who will need to adapt their apps/websites/digital displays to reflect the changes by end of 2024.
