This is less the fault of Calvert and Kubel and more of a fault of the obvious disconnect between the wayfinding guidance and the physical implementation which in most cases has been cheap and temporary. RA2 could be so much more than this.
I haven't seen/heard of any going up (though I haven't been visiting many stations to check).
What happens to the two big stations that don't have the ScotRail branding?
That’s because we are run by a horrible, talentless, power centralising Government that uses every opportunity they can to make their grubby little points. Hence instead of creating a structure to sort out the mess they created in the first place with the sort of humble pie that requires, they couldn’t help themselves from doing the old Westminster forcing the colonies to accept something without reasonable debate and consultation with the devolved authorities piece.
My view is that a significant piece of research was done by people with expertise in accessibility, and they found that the new Network Rail standards are more visible and usable by everybody. You're perfectly entitled to prefer the Danish ones, but that doesn't make them more inclusive or accessible
In the latter years of BR there were always different brands: InterCity, NSE, Regional Railways, ScotRail, &c. GBR can have different brands but all be tied together with the old BR logo. No problem there.
I don't know why anyone needed to do a significant piece of research when there's plenty of research already out there, accessed by the power of Google. General concensus seems to be that the wording and background need to be sufficiently contrasting but there's no one colour combination that is better than others.
Couldn't have put it better myself.
"Great British Railways" is in fact to be an English body responsible for English-controlled services only, so it is indeed a rather stupid name. Objecting to Wales and Scotland, where transport is devolved, not dropping the Scotrail and TfW brands is to my mind arguing it the wrong way round. It's the Westminster government calling their England-specific body "Great British" that is the real problem. (It also sounds pretentious but that's for another thread)
Interesting that Denmark has now adopted signage with white lettering on a blue background. Back in the late 'seventies/early 'eighties, they were the first - and possibly only - other country to adopt the BR standard black-on-white signage on stations and platforms and retained it for many years.
April fool?
You want three entirely separate organisations when we used to and should have one, puting politics ahead of passenger needs. What is the benefit?
Yes. From the Shapps plain for rail:
That exact same argument is an argument for one TOC for the whole of Great Britain, except your argument creates unnecessary boundaries.
Nonsense. Even if that were that case, it is not the case now.
Perhaps because it doesn't affect you?
I can't find anything within National Rail/Network Rail where Meadowhall was described with the "Interchange" suffix, so was that just used for the SuperTram?
Yep. Looks awful.