I used to get it from Dalston to Camden.
We used to call it the heroin line because of the state of the other passengers.
Sometime I do remember well is nobody paid for it, except me cos I can't stand the hypocrisy of complaining about services and not paying for them.
That said it was well...
They also share the lines with the tube.....
They are inner city metro trains quite distinctive from (for example) the Southern Service which you get from Balham to Shepherds Bush.
In terms of frequency or reliability, depends where you want to go. They have far more in common with the...
It's quite funny. Anyone who lived in London prior to re-branding will remember the lines were previously named.
The "London Overground" name is relatively recent.
I remember the quite horrific Silverlink Metro which had individual line names like "North London Line" and " West London Line"...
Because they are just like tube lines and you can interchange between them to get around.
Single operator, same rolling stock with limited seating to get as many cattle to work and home again.
The renaming makes particularly visitors think of them as the underground, use them and take pressure...
Sensible move.
I always though it a bit odd that they cobbled together old and new surface lines and branded the whole thing as "over ground" when the rest of the "network" (i.e. underground) have line names.
Like buses, visitors to London are a bit scared of them because they aren't sure what...