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InTheNews: The latest rail news on Thursday 15th February 2024
The London Overground is being rebranded and divided into six lines with their own names and colours.
An article on the Sky News website says it currently appears on the Tube map as a sprawling orange network that some say has become too tricky to navigate.
The six lines will be renamed Mildmay, Liberty, Suffragette, Weaver, Lioness and Liberty.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said they celebrate “different parts of London’s unique local history and culture”.
Train drivers at five rail operators have voted to continue taking strike action for six months in the long-running dispute over pay and conditions.
An article on the ITV website says Aslef announced that its members on Chiltern, c2c, East Midlands, Northern and TransPennine railways had overwhelmingly backed carrying on with action.
Unions involved in disputes have to re-ballot their members every six months on continuing with industrial action.
A historic Sussex seaside attraction has been named Railway of the Year.
Volk’s Electric Railway, which runs along the seafront in Brighton, was given the accolade by the Heritage Railway Association.
Founded in 1883, the tourist attraction beat off 200 heritage railways across the UK to the title.
York’s National Railway Museum has opened a temporary exhibition that showcases authentic and underrepresented stories about disability, alongside 20th century railway artwork.
Titled Go as You Please, the exhibition opened on 8 February, and explores rail travel from the perspectives of people with lived experience of D/deafness, disability and neurodivergence.
It features objects from the collection, including railway artwork and marketing posters.
