Milloms yet to be done, certainly as of Friday anyway.
Looks like the old font to me.
Neither is the font itself RA2.
Yes, there is a C in Cannon Street, and Queen Victoria's lapel is the V. Reading has used the shape of the new station (escalators). Fenchurch Street and Gatwick Airport weren't Major Stations at the time when Railtrack originally launched these. You'll find that in recent times, the 'Victoria' station brand is being used for employees working at the station rather than the employer TOC or NR, under a 'one team' approach.
St Pancras (high level) is managed by NR (High Speed) on behalf of HS1. The branding is as dictated by HS1. St Pancras (low level) is NR, but not branded as part of this scheme.
I was doing a fair amount of travel in England last week and kept noticing this - so many platforms that are for all intents and purposes totally un-numbered apart from a sign or two at the main entrance.
They've changed the signs at Padgate, ane I've got to admit, I agree with you - they don't look too bad when viewing them in person, although can look less flattering on images.
I couldn't agree more.
Correct, the railways are a public service not an art gallery.
I’ve watched this thread with interest and some of the comments have really made me laugh at how some people believe that Joe and Jane Public actually care what colour/style a station sign is.
I worked for RRNE so I have quite a lot of insight into them.
I agree they need to be presentable - much of the issue with the BR era signage was probably that they remained in use for years after having been shot at, having things thrown at them or generally vandalised, or having faded badly, without repair or replacement.
That’s down to maintenance though rather than the sign itself.
The arguments for years have been about replacing the colourful signs of one company with the colourful signs of another and the usual ‘waste of money’ remarks. Now it is being standardised into something simple with no need to alter it in years to come because a swoosh has gone out of fashion and needs to be replaced with a triangle or something daft like that.
Exactly. But then others would argue that it is cheap (probably while complaining about the other companies doing a complete change).
The main issue for me is that you can see the sign underneath it on some of the examples.
On lines like the S&C which have a particular character and identity, it's a shame they couldn't use a more traditional design (such as how some councils paint lamp posts black in more historic areas of towns) but also maybe have name of the line or region on the sign too?
I think there is a good chance they may add something to them when the GBR thing gets formally started
Yep that would work
I am not surprised it’s red. I couldn’t get my head around why everyone assumed new GBR branding would be blue - almost all stations in the UK have a red arrow so it would be rather strange to then choose blue. I think a lot of people read too much into the colour on which the document about GBR was printed
