Today’s London Overground: A Pictorial Overview

The Orange Line, the Ginger Line or the M25 Railway, call it what it what you will, the London Overground, born in 2007, has become one of London’s transport success stories. Running complimentary to, and in some places, in combination with, London Underground, it carries more than 180 million passengers a year on 9 lines and serves 112 stations over a combined length of more than 100 miles. An amalgamation of several commuter lines (and one London Underground Line) that ring London it now branches out to all points of the compass. Over recent years it’s also undergone unprecedented change and investment (with a few troubles along the way) with the phasing out of old and the introduction of new rolling stock. This book takes a photographic look at these changes including a look at the routes, the stations and the trains including Classes 172, 315, 317, 378 and the brand new 710s with a brief history of each. And with so much freight sharing the Overground routes this is briefly looked at as well. AUTHOR: Justin Bailey was born in Woolwich South East London, having grown up with a lifelong passion for trains, transport and history related subjects. He has worked in the book industry since the age of fifteen as a bookseller for two leading specialist transport bookshops, Motor books and the Ian Allan Transport Bookshop, also working as a sales rep for a book distributer. He is a keen photographer of all things transport and travel related, he combines these subjects whenever he can. His first book The Lost Railways of Wiltshire published in 2006, went into a second print run. He has also contributed to railway magazines and periodicals, Justin currently lives in West London with his wife Vicky.
200 colour illustrations and a system map