New Names of London Overground Lines - an important question.

[IvorTheEngineDriver]

How will this affect the rules of Mornington Crescent?

If the lines have names can we now include them?

Discuss.

There will be the Mildmay rule and others no doubt, if the next convention approves them.

Good question. It could certainly be controversial - I’m old enough to remember the shenanigans when they opened the Dockland Light Railway!
But I think the interim report should come out later this month and then we’ll have a clearer idea.

As the new names have now come into force, time to revive this thread. Though I am not sure I have the authority to discuss the Weaver line, as I have not read the Standing Orders.

It's hard to see how northward shunts will be possible on the Weaver line. Harrington's gambit is now a purely lateral tactic, of course.

Never mind the Weaver Line, I'm a bit stunned that no-one seems to be taking the Wilson Regulations into account in all this. I'm not a lawyer, but I think that the report that came out of the Budapest Convention could be argued to set a precedent there. I guess time will tell!

Gosh, you're right TotallyTwisted. I must admit that I hadn't considered the implication of Wilson until you pointed it out. I wonder how many other players are yet to make the connection. Time will tell, as you say!