[Trivia] Stations with non-standard signage

causton · 29 May 2019

pdeaves said:
Northampton (https://www.flickr.com/photos/96855735@N08/29940585963) and many others had them. London Midland did gold originally to commemorate Olympic medal winners.

Bromsgrove is in a different font and without the LM logo though, so a bit different.

Similarly, Kenilworth has a more neutral Network Rail style of signage?

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Train Maniac · 29 May 2019

Not sure if either of these are original but:
Looe Valley Line- Cream font on Chocolate background
Island Line- Southern Railway style green

bengley · 30 May 2019

BigCj34 said:
Lancaster does not use the Virgin Trains style of signage, they're still the BR Transport font.

Same as most Virgin stations north of Stoke.

Sprinter107 · 30 May 2019

adrock1976 said:
There are various station signs of the former Great Western Railway company in their style at places such as Hanwell (Hanwell and Elthorne), Wootton Wawen, Charlbury, Tyseley, Bewdley (from what I remember when I did the Severn Valley back in 1989) etc.

It is noted that these historic signs are also in addition to the present day TOC and Passenger Transport Executive branding and logos.

Not seen any GWR signs at Wootton Wawen.

LeeLivery · 30 May 2019

Farringdon with Tube rounds on the Thameslink platforms. Must be the only platforms exclusively served by National Rail services with Underground signage in London.

t_star2001uk · 30 May 2019

High Wycombe has a former GWR sign on platform 2...

Strathclyder · 30 May 2019

In a similar vein to Southall, Partick had bi-lingual English/Gaelic signs put in place for the area's significant Gaelic-speaking population in the early/mid-2000s. Of course, it had the standard bi-lingual signage used network-wide* installed near the end of the First ScotRail franchise.

*: If you feel that the discussion/debate over the cost, benefits/drawbacks & necessity of such signage across the entire ScotRail network absolutely has to be had, feel free to start a new thread on the matter if you so wish. I'd rather not have this one get dragged way off-topic by it.

davetheguard · 30 May 2019

Ken H said:
Are there any lights left with the station name written on the light so it was backlit at night
These were installed in the 1960's i think.
They looked like they had florescent tubes inside
came in a type for under canopies and another T shaped thing for outside
Some here in the image link at Skipton. An 'under canopy' one and some 'outside' ones too. pic is supposed to be 1974. not my pic.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/95/207474228_b8bf970b49_b.jpg
Fairly common across the network.

There's these ones at Stratford upon Avon

A Challenge · 30 May 2019

LeeLivery said:
Farringdon with Tube rounds on the Thameslink platforms. Must be the only platforms exclusively served by National Rail services with Underground signage in London.

Farringdon is served by the Underground though?

route101 · 30 May 2019

Wemyss bay had black heritage signage

DPWH · 31 May 2019

I read the title of this thread as "stations with non-standard gauge". Which got me thinking,

* Aberystwyth (VoRR)
* Betsw-y-Coed (the miniature railway in the yard)
* Blaneau Ffestiniog (Ffestiniog)
* Minffordd (Ffestiniog)
* Ravenglass (R&ER)
* Tywyn (arguably)

Any more?

hwl · 31 May 2019

A Challenge said:
Farringdon is served by the Underground though?

It is an LU station, the hint is in the station code as it starts with Z. (ZFD)

pdeaves · 31 May 2019

Henley on Thames has a standard sign with standard font, but the lettering is tiny. See https://www.flickr.com/photos/39918537@N04/47148399942/ (not my pic)

K.o.R · 31 May 2019

A Challenge said:
Farringdon is served by the Underground though?

The only platforms served exclusively by mainline trains with LU roundels. The station as a whole of course has LU services.

Gathursty · 31 May 2019

Manors has a strange font at the entrance to the station.

davetheguard · 31 May 2019

FelixtheCat said:
Tain, Dunrobin Castle and Scotscalder on the Far North Line.

This is Dunrobin Castle station two weeks ago

Aictos · 31 May 2019

davetheguard said:
There's these ones at Stratford upon Avon
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That’s Gills San font?

LeeLivery · 31 May 2019

A Challenge said:
Farringdon is served by the Underground though?

It is, but the Thameslink platforms have no LU services. The Chiltern only platforms at South & West Ruislip don't have LU signage despite being managed by LU, nor does Stratford.

K.o.R said:
The only platforms served exclusively by mainline trains with LU roundels. The station as a whole of course has LU services.

Indeed.

VT 390 · 31 May 2019

LeeLivery said:
It is, but the Thameslink platforms have no LU services. The Chiltern only platforms at South & West Ruislip don't have LU signage despite being managed by LU, nor does Stratford.

Do TFL manage the National Rail parts of the Ruislip stations and Stratford though?

Ken H · 31 May 2019

davetheguard said:
This is Dunrobin Castle station two weeks ago

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like the portable steps
used to have those at Settle and Giggleswick

platforms have been raised now

Trackman · 31 May 2019

davetheguard said:
There's these ones at Stratford upon Avon
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There's one at Manchester Oxford road

pdeaves · 31 May 2019

VT 390 said:
Do TFL manage the National Rail parts of the Ruislip stations and Stratford though?

For the Ruislips, it's hard to tell. The stations appear both on Chiltern's and LU's licences. LU only has licenced activity for 'national network' stuff, so there's clearly a disconnect somewhere. They can't both manage the NR elements!

MikeWM · 3 Jun 2019

Trackman said:
There's one at Manchester Oxford road

I've been meaning to ask this question on here for ages. I used to really like these lights with the station name on them, and have wondered how many have survived. I saw the Stratford ones last year. Haven't seen the one at Ox Rd (whereabouts is it?). Are there any others?

Trackman · 3 Jun 2019

MikeWM said:
Haven't seen the one at Ox Rd (whereabouts is it?). Are there any others?

It on p4, on the lift structure. Just says 'Oxford Road'

Tio Terry · 3 Jun 2019

With the drive for Access for All and the DfT's requirements for signage set out in their Design Standards for Accessible Railway Stations I suspect that much of the non-standard signage has a limited life - or at least it will exist alongside compliant signage.

Non Multi · 4 Jun 2019

Before it was redeveloped, Reading station had its name signs in Frutiger alongside the usual BR Rail Alphabet ones. This was not a typeface normally used by First Great Western (the station operator at that time). Reading, as a NR station now has the standard Lloyd Northover designed signage that was originally commissioned for Railtrack PLC.

St Pancras*, Stratford and Ebbsfleet International stations feature the same signage design, being owned by London & Continental Railways. Ashford International had a completely different white on dark blue design on its running in boards.

*St Pancras has its own unique logotype that's used everywhere apart from on the platforms which use the standard LCR design.

davetheguard · 7 Dec 2019

davetheguard said:
Actually those signs at Southall pre-date First Great Western. They were put up in the days of the Thames Trains franchise, which consisted of the former Network South East routes out of Paddington, plus other Thames Turbo-operated routes (classes 165 & 166) such as Paddington to Worcester/Gt. Malvern/Hereford; Paddington to Stratford upon Avon via Oxford; and Reading to Gatwick Airport.

Further to my own post, here are the signs at Southall pictured at the beginning of this week. Note the still extant Thames Trains era version in their house colours; and the new TfL Rail all blue version.

Amaroussi · 29 Dec 2019

There were two instances of the TfL Rail Blue bilingual platform signage on 22 December 2019. First Great Western (now GWR) basically stuck their logo over the stripes.

jhy44 · 29 Dec 2019

I do wish Network Rail would roll out standard signage nationwide.
Standard signage improves recognition, visibility and ultimately speeds up the message being conveyed, hence why we have standard nationwide road signage.

K.o.R · 30 Dec 2019

jhy44 said:
I do wish Network Rail would roll out standard signage nationwide.
Standard signage improves recognition, visibility and ultimately speeds up the message being conveyed, hence why we have standard nationwide road signage.

I do think the blue-plus-coloured-bottom-stripe signs at (most) Network Rail stations looks very nice.

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