Trivia: outdated posters and signage

[MadMac]

There was at least one Scottish Region "System Map" including the Waverley route on the footbridge at Edinburgh Waverley in late 1979, almost 11 years after that line closed.

Not "passenger facing", but a cab video taken in the last couple of years on the Edinburgh Suburban showed an "AWB" (Apply Wagon Brakes) sign still in place. That was an instruction to pin down brakes on unfitted wagons prior to a steep downhill gradient: there haven't been unfitted trains since the early 80s.....

 

[Lloyds siding]

Conwy station has a very faded sign saying "This platform for blah, blah, London Euston."

Not that I'm convinced that was ever a direct journey!

There certainly were direct trains from Conwy (or Conway as it then appeared) to London Euston.

 

[Howardh]

The huge map/mural on the wall of Manchester Victoria of, well basically the Victorian rail network around Manchester! Think it might have a preservation order on it, but I hope strangers don't think it's an actual current map!

 

[GW43125]

Until 2019, there were BR-branded adverts and timetables from the early 90s at Coventry station, until they were removed as part of the rebuild.

Guildford and Littlehampton still have big Red Star logos outside.

Pretty sure Wymondham has, or until recently had, a lot of BR branded signs.

A fair amount of NXEA branding still evident on the Anglian routes, though a lot of the stations on the Wherry Lines were done up recently.

I noticed Stowmarket has a (brand new!) "Over footbridge for Norwich, Cambridge, Midlands and the North" sign, despite services running no further than Peterborough (did they ever?)!

 

[61653 HTAFC]

There's a fair amount of Network SouthEast signage and corporate colours still at Marylebone. There's also a BR era passenger luggage trolley at Aylesbury with a Network SouthEast sign stating it's not be removed from Aylesbury Station. Those trolleys used to be everywhere, the ones with the yellow bar which you had to push down to release the brake. I was never sure why they were removed as it was quite handy if you had heavy suitcases.

The signal box at Watlington (Magdalen Road) has a Network SouthEast name board, as featured in a recent YouTube video by the Rediscovering Lost Railways channel.

 

[GW43125]

The signal box at Watlington (Magdalen Road) has a Network SouthEast name board, as featured in a recent YouTube video by the Rediscovering Lost Railways channel.

Was it Downham Market that was recently repainted in NSE colours?

 

[Doomotron]

Tunbridge Wells has Connex-era signage outside the station. Folkestone Central has a very faded Network SouthEast sign outside the station (not sure where exactly). I'm not sure if it counts but some stations on the SE network have the paint on the fences flaking off revealing NSE red.

 

[mmh]

There certainly were direct trains from Conwy (or Conway as it then appeared) to London Euston.

These are BR era signs, and can't be from before the re-opening, nothing at Conwy, including the spelling, pre-dates that, though.

 

[12C]

There is at least one Northern 156 with a large ex BR no smoking sticker on a blue background complete with Regional Railways North East branding on the vestibule to cab door. Which will have survived 5 different TOCs and 3 refurbishments!

 

[317666]

Unless they've been changed fairly recently, quite a few stations on the Cambridge - Ipswich line (Dullingham, Newmarket, Thurston and Elmswell from memory) still have Anglia Railways signage.

 

[CardiffKid]

In the subway at Cardiff Central there are tiled directions to platform 5, which I think went 50 odd years ago. I guess the tiles are preserved though.

The number ‘5’ was actually removed from the tiles and then readded (hence the slight colour discrepancy).

At Penarth there’s a sign saying something along the lines of ‘don’t trespass on the track £X fine’ by order Railtrack PLC.

Anyone dull enough to go on the track won’t pay a jot of notice to the sign nor know/care about Railtrack of course.

 

[Mat17]

My favourite was on a 156 in ATN days. The sign on the left hand vestibule door's sign said £200 fine for smoking, the right hand side was an old Regional Railways on that said £50 fine for smoking. I guess it depends which side you stood at and if you could keep the smoke on that side.

 

[Scotrail314209]

I’m not sure if there are any left, but across the Greater Glasgow network, some of the railway bridges near stations remained with a big gigantic orange Strathclyde Transport sign with the station name.

Example:
Image shows the Strathclyde Transport sign at Partick station.

 

[GW43125]

My favourite was on a 156 in ATN days. The sign on the left hand vestibule door's sign said £200 fine for smoking, the right hand side was an old Regional Railways on that said £50 fine for smoking. I guess it depends which side you stood at and if you could keep the smoke on that side.

Now you mention this, I'm sure some of the carriages used on the Wherry Line loco-hauls about 5 years ago still carried Anglia Railways branding on internal signage.

 

[12C]

My favourite was on a 156 in ATN days. The sign on the left hand vestibule door's sign said £200 fine for smoking, the right hand side was an old Regional Railways on that said £50 fine for smoking. I guess it depends which side you stood at and if you could keep the smoke on that side.

See my post above, it’s still there on at least one of them, amazingly surviving the most recent refurb!

 

[Class360/1]

In Essex, there are lots of NSE and FGE signage on the entrance signs, as you walk into the station.

 

[Bald Rick]

Long since gone, but my favourite example was a big First Capital Connect advert that was posted on a billboard at the former Kings Cross Thameslink station the week before they handed over the franchise to GTR. Unfortunately it could only be removed with an isolation of the OLE…

 

[Doctor Fegg]

A couple of Cotswold Line stations had remnants of Regional Railways branding until the 2015 GWR rebrand - particularly unusual as Network SouthEast took over operation of the Cotswold Line c. 1993.

 

[ert47]

There’s some Connex South Central era advertisement on a bridge near Penge West - though slightly obscured by graffiti.

 

[Watershed]

Coventry station retains its 1960s Modernisation-era "COVENTRY" glass signage above the waiting room windows - zoom in on the far right hand side of this image:

I regularly use Wigan North Western and I have a chuckle at some of the platform lighting columns. They have been painted in the Avanti green up to half way up and then the top half of the column is still in the Virgin red. It's almost as if the step ladder could only reach so far!

CJ

There's a good chance an OLE isolation is needed to paint the higher parts of the columns. There's still huge amounts of Virgin signage and red about though - and even Intercity era stuff if you know where to look.

I noticed Stowmarket has a (brand new!) "Over footbridge for Norwich, Cambridge, Midlands and the North" sign, despite services running no further than Peterborough (did they ever?)!

There were a variety of weird and wonderful once a day through workings upon the introduction of the 156s - such as Barrow to Colchester and Blackpool North to Harwich.

Long since gone, but my favourite example was a big First Capital Connect advert that was posted on a billboard at the former Kings Cross Thameslink station the week before they handed over the franchise to GTR. Unfortunately it could only be removed with an isolation of the OLE…

There's still plenty of old FCC signage at Kings Cross Thameslink!

 

[mmh]

Bangor station has a big "Welcome to Bangor" type sign above the exit with the Arfon Borough Council logo on it, a council which ceased to exist in 1996.

 

[Parallel]

Until a few weeks ago, there was a Wessex Trains branded station nameplate at Newton St. Cyres - which would’ve been from pre-2006.

There is still a lot of First Great Western branding around too, including on the sides of some Turbos with the old First Great Western website url that doesn’t exist anymore!

 

[Skimble19]

Long since gone, but my favourite example was a big First Capital Connect advert that was posted on a billboard at the former Kings Cross Thameslink station the week before they handed over the franchise to GTR. Unfortunately it could only be removed with an isolation of the OLE…

Some of the billboards are still up at Kings Cross Thameslink, including one proudly telling everyone about the “new” station at St Pancras

 

[Matt Taylor]

There's an original Permit To Travel machine at Loughborough Junction with NSE branding showing quite clearly, Windsor (SWR side) has 'Thames Valley Walks' billboard with NSE Thames Trains branding and Drayton Green has an NSE 'this platform for Castle Bar Park, South Greenford & Greenford' sign.

 

[32475]

I saw that this BR directional sign in Stowmarket town centre in September 2019. I hope it’s still there?

 

[Foxxle]

I remember when there were works being carried out at Euston, the platform numbers and boards had been taken down, revealing all the old network south east signs behind. New ones have been put up but I still think the NSE ones are behind them. Might have a picture on the SD card so if I find it I'll post it here?

 

[drb61]

A number of stations in the Glasgow area still have the old orange (or Strathclyde Red as it was known) branding on bridge parapets. This branding was replaced many years ago by Carmine and Cream then more recently by ScotRail's current branding.

Williamwood is one example: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.7...4!1s6Dpk_7aM4_XjuZx9CcCByA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Apart from being well out of date, looks like it could do with a bit of a scrub-up!

 

[Scotrail314209]

A number of stations in the Glasgow area still have the old orange (or Strathclyde Red as it was known) branding on bridge parapets. This branding was replaced many years ago by Carmine and Cream then more recently by ScotRail's current branding.

Williamwood is one example: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.7...4!1s6Dpk_7aM4_XjuZx9CcCByA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Apart from being well out of date, looks like it could do with a bit of a scrub-up!

I do wonder how many of these are left.

 

[Peter0124]

I’m not sure if there are any left, but across the Greater Glasgow network, some of the railway bridges near stations remained with a big gigantic orange Strathclyde Transport sign with the station name.

Example: View attachment 117369
Image shows the Strathclyde Transport sign at Partick station.

Im sure Newton had this until 2 or 3 years ago

 

[John Luxton]

One of the station name boards at Bere Alston (Tavistock end of platform) was still showing Wessex Trains branding in April when I last used the station.

I took this photo of it in September 2021

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