Talk:London Overground Rail Operations

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BetacommandBot 04:39, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Change of name
MTR Laing has changed its name to London Overground Rail Operations Ltd Marcgr 09:34, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Reason for redirect
From : "London Overground Rail Operations Ltd (formerly known as MTR Laing)".

In summary MTR Laing has been rebranded as London Overground Rail Operations Ltd. Therefore there is no need for this page, as all information is now covered on the London Overground page, including details on the operator, and the change of name. --Jorvik 13:49, 14 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I beg to differ, "MTR Laing" have in recent years bid for several rail franchise, with only the Overground bid being successful. thus historically, its important to keep have an MTR Laing page describing not just their overground efforts, but their other attempts, even in unsuccessful (and i would guess they will bid again at further rail franchise opertunites). Pickle 21:55, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Laing Rail --> Deutsche Bahn
Please see WT:Rail for query. Simply south (talk) 17:36, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

LOROL merge suggestion
I suggest the merge as the company seems to be trading fully as LOROL, is no longer part-owned by Laing, and MTR Laing only existed for about 6 months before being bought out. Unless the former company has a long and illustrious history, it would seem less confusing to stick everything in LOROL, with a bit in its history about the former name.Wikidwitch (talk) 18:34, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Indeed - even if the company did have more of a history, it would still be misleading to have two articles just because it had changed its name. David Arthur (talk) 19:52, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree that a merger of MTR Laing into LOROL makes sense, as there is very little additional info in the former article (apart from the defunct logo). -- MightyWarrior (talk) 13:22, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * If it was purely a change of name (or amounts to that in practice) then a single article is appropriate to what is a single entity. A redirect and a "History" section ought to take care of it adequately--MBRZ48 (talk) 02:08, 11 June 2009 (UTC).

error
If "LOROL was formed in 2007 as MTR Laing", how could it have bid for the Thameslink franchise in 2005? Should it read that LOROL was formed from MTR Laing in 2007? If so, when was MTR Laing created?- J.Logan`t : 12:35, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

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