Killingworth
Established Member
I think it was by about 1970 that the old coloured signage had been removed from stations to be replaced by clear black on white, that change having been progressive across the country, beginning in 1965.
I grew up in the North Eastern Region with orange signage, but am too young to remember when the signage was put up after nationalisation. I can't recall it was changed to dark blue when North Eastern was subsumed into Eastern in 1967. Almost certainly not, presumably going direct to the new modern style.
However, it's the Midland mainline that currently interests me. The Friends group at Dronfield Station have a dark blue totem sign on their modern waiting shelter. Dronfield was firmly in the Midland Region after nationalisation and seems to have remained there until 1958. This suggests that there must have been a Midland Region maroon sign for at least 10 years? Which lasted longer, maroon or blue?
That dark blue Dronfield sign is quite recent, however there are colour pictures showing dark blue signage in place at neighbouring Dore & Totley and at least two of those signs still exist. Trouble is those colour pictures are hard to date, but probably early 1960s.
The question is, were there a lot of maroon signs removed and replaced when the lines moved from Midland to Eastern? If so any remaining old maroon signs must be quite rare.
I grew up in the North Eastern Region with orange signage, but am too young to remember when the signage was put up after nationalisation. I can't recall it was changed to dark blue when North Eastern was subsumed into Eastern in 1967. Almost certainly not, presumably going direct to the new modern style.
However, it's the Midland mainline that currently interests me. The Friends group at Dronfield Station have a dark blue totem sign on their modern waiting shelter. Dronfield was firmly in the Midland Region after nationalisation and seems to have remained there until 1958. This suggests that there must have been a Midland Region maroon sign for at least 10 years? Which lasted longer, maroon or blue?
That dark blue Dronfield sign is quite recent, however there are colour pictures showing dark blue signage in place at neighbouring Dore & Totley and at least two of those signs still exist. Trouble is those colour pictures are hard to date, but probably early 1960s.
The question is, were there a lot of maroon signs removed and replaced when the lines moved from Midland to Eastern? If so any remaining old maroon signs must be quite rare.
