The most out of date advert you have seen at a station [Triva]

[D6968]

Is the huge Red Star sign still in showing at Euston?

 

[Bogallan]

It warms my heart to say yes it is! A photo i took last November. All Red Star offices were closed in May 2001, so the sign is wearing well!

And another one at Euston for good measure.

I was at Georgemas Jcn in 2001 and this poster was still in situ in the waiting room…..The Area Manager Bill Wood, having retired in 1987!

 

[infobleep]

In 2017 I took this photo of a poster at Euston, dating from November 1981, but it was in a non-public area of the station.

Nice. Would that have been a public area of the station in 1981?

 

[Trothy]

There used to be an advertising banner above the escalators down to the Wirral lines at Liverpool Central for "Computer Adventure World" in Birkenhead that was still there many years after the shop itself had closed.

 

[McRhu]

If we’ve expanded the remit to include signs, I’m sure many people in the Glasgow area will remember the ‘Blue Trains’ pole mounted blue & yellow logo still extant outside some stations many years after it had slipped into redundancy. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s still one somewhere.

 

[Bogallan]

Nice. Would that have been a public area of the station in 1981?

Yes, it would have been. I found it whilst having a mooch (legally) in Euston basement down a “dead-end” corridor.

 

[D6968]

It warms my heart to say yes it is! A photo i took last November. All Red Star offices were closed in May 2001, so the sign is wearing well!

And another one at Euston for good measure.

I was at Georgemas Jcn in 2001 and this poster was still in situ in the waiting room…..The Area Manager Bill Wood, having retired in 1987!

Superb!

 

[infobleep]

Is the huge Red Star sign still in showing at Euston?

That reminds me. There is one of these at Guildford still. Off-topic but on platform 1 there is a disused postbox that would have been put in when the station was rebuilt in 1986.

I wonder what will happen to it during the station rebuilding works. I'd like to think it would be sold off, rather than scrapped but I'm going off-topic.

 

[D821]

There used to be an advertising banner above the escalators down to the Wirral lines at Liverpool Central for "Computer Adventure World" in Birkenhead that was still there many years after the shop itself had closed.

I was only thinking of that advert the other day. It often pops into my head when I go down the escalator there. I spent many an hour looking for Commodore 64 games there.

 

[JammyJames08]

I remember seeing an advert for Now! That what’s I call music 42 (released in March 1999) at the old platforms at London Bridge. It was still there in 2010. It was under the stair well where the stairs went up beneath platforms 2/3!

 

[Skimpot flyer]

One of the enamel route maps on the Northbound Thameslink platform at Farringdon only shows the route to Bedford, giving no indication of direct trains to Peterborough or Cambridge.
Passengers changing off an Elizabeth Line train from Heathrow might well wonder if they are on the correct part of the station, no?