Someone seems to be very anxious to make sure that humble commuters notice the recent change in our railway arrangements.
Looking at the festive decorations in my local branch of what we must now, I suppose, call the former KCR, I had to remind myself that actually no tracks had been laid, stations opened, locomotives launched or services upgraded.
We do have an interesting new map, but it merely records the existing arrangements. Whatever the future holds for the two merged railways, the immediate import of the merger is purely financial.
So why, one wondered, the triumphalism? After all, this was not the culmination of a long and arduous campaign to put our tubes on a new track, or our tracks in a new tube.
It was the government's wish that the two bodies should merge, and nobody resisted very vigorously. Yet someone seems to be very keen on the new arrangement.