Regional Coloured Signal Number Plates?

[Chrius56000]

. . .Just a quickie one!

. . .Can anyone suggest why Signal Number Plates were never considered for Regional.Colours in the early B.R. Pre–Corporate Era prior to 1965?

. . .There are still many LM Maroon Electrification Mast Number plates in the Birmingham, Walsall and Wolverhampton areas, a few ER Ultramarine Blue mast plates are believed to have survived on the Colchester – Clacton line and a photo has been found of an early light blue ScR mast plate, altho' badly faded!

. . .All six B.R. Regions had some colour–light signalling in use (and being installed as new schemes!) at the time of, and after Nationalisation, so there was plenty of scope for all six colours of Uniform Style Regional Signal Plate to be produced!

Chris Williams

 

[edwin_m]

May be as simple as that the different engineering functions in BR didn't talk to each other much.

Alternatively someone might have decided signal number needed to be black on white (originally, later white on black) for readability.

 

[Railsigns]

Coloured plates on signal posts sounds like a bad combination.

 

[Gloster]

Why bother? Stations, timetable book covers, rolling stock, etc. are all public facing things where a regional identity may be seen as worthwhile. Signal post numbers are a purely internal matter.

 

[edwin_m]

Why bother? Stations, timetable book covers, rolling stock, etc. are all public facing things where a regional identity may be seen as worthwhile. Signal post numbers are a purely internal matter.

So are OLE structure numbers!

 

[Chrius56000]

. . .Not forgetting of course that the travelling public would pay less attention to electrification structures that they would to signals – enthusiasts amongst the travelling public would probably be interested in which signal box/power box, etc., controls particular signals/groups of signals, so there was (theoretically anyway!) a small justification for Regional Coloured Signal Number Plates, more so than OLE masts, yet three Regions (Sc, LM and E!) thought that mast plates warranted being in regional colours!

Chris Williams