‘Not everyone is going to be happy’: Sadiq Khan defends £6.3m London Overground 'Lioness and Suffragette'...

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Sadiq Khan has defended the renaming of the six London Overground lines after being accused of ‘virtue signalling’.

The six lines will be renamed and given different colours, after previously all being referred to as the Overground, and being coloured in orange.Defending the rebrand decision on Thursday, the mayor of London insisted that the names have pleased “most people”.He said: “It’s been a long process, we’ve been engaging with customers, communities, people across our city.

It runs to Barking, which was the home of the longest surviving Suffragette, Annie Huggett, who died at 103. It will be green parallel lines on the map. The Liberty line: Romford to Upminster, which "celebrates the freedom that is a defining feature of London and references the historical independence of the people of Havering", through which it runs. It will be grey parallel lines on the map.

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