Chiltern006
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100% agreed. However I’m not sure on the use of the blue on black at the bottom of the sign
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Stations rebranded to Great British Railways design / Rail Alphabet 2
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I think they look far smarter than the outdated, worn looking Serco-Abellio Northern Rail signage elsewhere on the network. I think they're fine for a consistent national standard if only it'd be rolled out properly.
I think it looks fantastic. Very smart.
These "horrors" (and I agree with the word choice) have been done in Helvetica and look just so cruddy. And why? If they were only in RA2 instead, they'd be pretty much bang-on standards.
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Oops was a quick glance and assumed haha
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Interesting to see that they are still using the Railtrack station logo.
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I think this is good. One (incredibly rare) bit of genuine praise for Railtrack was there refurbs of the major terminis and these logos, so I'm glad they are being kept.Interesting to see that they are still using the Railtrack station logo.
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Interesting to see that they are still using the Railtrack station logo.
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Is there a modern, up to date list/gallery of the ones currently in use? I noticed in a social media post that Guildford has recieved one and NR only took over responsibility for that station in 2018, a long time after the icons were first used.
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Interesting - do you have a photo?
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Some GWR have AlphabetRail2 font Truro has them on platform signs and stations signages.
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This is a really bad example.
It implies that one can walk to both London Waterloo and Gatwick Airport by going in that direction! It should say 'Trains for/to/towards London Waterloo and Gatwick airport'.
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The Guildford logo reminds me a bit of the Gatwick one.
I thought the same
White on blue definitely looks a million times better than that wirey black lost on an acre of empty white background, which is how most of the new signs look.
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I don't often post but...why have Network Rail got hold of Guildford?! I'd have thought there'd be a lot of stations that'd be more worthy of NR status than Guildford...
Could that sign stand out any less?! Really shows what a poor decision this was, and how the ‘research’ to back it was nonsense.
Is it to do with the redevelopment?
See post 1448
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Sadly I don't have any photos, but the other day I noticed RA2 on some signs at Grimsby Town. Notably not the "Grimsby Town" signs, which still had TPE font (sorry I don't know the particulars), only the direction signage had been changed to RA2.
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And another. (Not a great photo, I was on platform 6)
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Surely this one should say:
Platform 4 - 6
Trains to Waterloo and Gatwick Airport
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That looks like Rail Alphabet to me... definitely not RA2.
Its so weedy! It’s really quite depressing seeing a degradation in the station experience.
This is what nationalisation leads to!
Not in the GBR colour scheme - is that Margate FC's colours?
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It's very plain and dull. even 'dull' Germanic countries have better branding. The font is fine, but white signage with no stripe seems very uninspired. Even a horizontal stripe top or bottom, or an SWT/EMT style swish would be great. And why not have different colours for different regions?
This looks very cheap and naff. Unnecessarily large and tacky to me.
No, it's Southeastern's colour scheme.
Odd that they've switched from their usual font (which I forget the name of) to RA or RA2, but not changed to GBR colours.