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NSEFAN
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Pics please? Sounds interesting!
Bletchleyite
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Isn't that just Abellio red?
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I believe that King's Lynn has undergone some 'retro' refurbishment in recent years, if Downham Market has gone back to NSE may it be a continuation of that trend?
every station from Littleport to Kings Lynn, inclusive, is operated by Great Northern (behold the FCC ticket machine lurking in the picture).
Bletchleyite
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It has. Perhaps Downham has had the same treatment as this?
All lamp posts are red and dark blue almost black. Signage is NSE style and the entrance says welcome to Network South East Downham Market. The BR sign outside the station never was replaced so it was always NSE but it is desperate for a new one. It sort of pink and brown now.
I have to say it looks really nice having the red lamps. The waiting room has a map motif on the walls now and looks really nice. I just wish they would paint all the picket fences white. They are a mix of white and unpainted.
Yes possibly going further and further back. Downham is British Rail and kings Lynn is British Railways maybe? Should Ely become Wagn? Haha
I wonder then, if it's actually a sponsored rebranding of Downham Market? Bachmann has recently released the signal box and I think a few of the station items in NSE so, putting 2+2 together I wonder if it has anything to do with that?
Deepgreen
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Hewew are a few pics I got. At first I thought it was just the one sign but When I returned home last night all signage had changed. I will head over it today and get some more pictures.
No pictures visible yet.
Deepgreen
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Very confusing - you say that the BR sign "never was replaced" but then that it "was always NSE" - which is true? Dark red lamp posts do not an NSE livery make.
Deepgreen
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It has. Perhaps Downham has had the same treatment as this?
Just because red and blue have been used does not make it a retro/NSE scheme.
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I believe the Kings Lynn scheme was explicitly stated as being such a refurbishment.
Deepgreen
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Although the sign in one of the pictures posted above definitely has the NSE lozenge
Splendid idea.
I can't see any pictures other than the one of King's Lynn and the Flickr link, which only shows the platforms with no signs visible. Perhaps you can see more photos than I can - odd.
pdeaves
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This is, I believe, pseudo-Great Eastern, formally 'opened' by Michael Portillo in July 2014.
Downham Market looks much more like NSE.
This is, I believe, pseudo-Great Eastern, formally 'opened' by Michael Portillo in July 2014.
Downham Market looks much more like NSE.
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Here are the URLs of the pictures posted above.
https://postimg.org/image/movt64wax/
https://postimg.org/image/o2iunp66h/
It's a fantastic idea. And the signage looks well done too. Surely someone must have given GTR some money and expertise to do this
A lot of comments here saying just because they have red lampposts it is not Network South East.
Can I just clarify that all signage that was in the FCC style has been replaced with Network South East style signage.
I have added the pictures to Flikr for anyone anyone who has trouble seeing them.
By this i meant that the red double arrow station sign was not replaced at privatisation. It still has the NSE strip at the bottom.
http://www.networksoutheast.net/uploads/3/5/5/9/3559064/_________________8182844_orig.jpg
Can I just clarify that all signage that was in the FCC style has been replaced with Network South East style signage.
I have added the pictures to Flikr for anyone anyone who has trouble seeing them.
By this i meant that the red double arrow station sign was not replaced at privatisation. It still has the NSE strip at the bottom.
http://www.networksoutheast.net/uploads/3/5/5/9/3559064/_________________8182844_orig.jpg
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eastdyke
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The ITN news video of the King's Lynn refurb. 'opening' can be seen here:
http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/upda...ially-opens-kings-lynn-station-refurbishment/
urpert
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Victoria Eastern side has never lost its NSE clocks, to my daily amusement.
if I wasn't away this weekend I'd take a ride up there and get more photos.
Kings Lynn is in Great Eastern colours but with 50's style British Railways post nationalisation signs.
Appears that as of July 2009 Watlington still had it's NSE totem
Kings Lynn is in Great Eastern colours but with 50's style British Railways post nationalisation signs.
Appears that as of July 2009 Watlington still had it's NSE totem
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Is Chris Green coming out of retirement too?!
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