Most out of date station sign.

[Eagle]

http://g.co/maps/cc9f5

Noticed this for the first time the other day. It's not out of date per-se other than the British Rail signage, but could definately do with replacing! (all the directional signs between the two stations could do with replacing tbh)

Interesting that it has NSE branding; uniquely, only one of the town's two stations was in the NSE area.

 

[313103]

On the bridge that carries the North London Line over Camden Road is a huge BR arrows and Camden Road sign. Also as you look towards the Narrow way in Hackney you can still see the writting 'North London Link' on the bridge where the railways goes across.

 

[lewisf]

On platform 10 at Clapham Junction there is a sign stating that "L&SWR passengers must use the subway and not cross the tracks"

 

[Eagle]

On platform 10 at Clapham Junction there is a sign stating that "L&SWR passengers must use the subway and not cross the tracks"

"...whereas LB&SCR passengers can just run across the tracks; we don't really care about them."

 

[The Sleeper]

Surely as old as they get

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bolckow/2286538934/

Sadly No, Bristol Temple Meads displays a sign from the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway -Pre GWR
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Wallsend Metro station is quite possibly the only station in Britain with a sign in Latin.

Sorry no - sign at Weatheral station on the viaduct also in Latin

 

[jon0844]

On the bridge that carries the North London Line over Camden Road is a huge BR arrows and Camden Road sign. Also as you look towards the Narrow way in Hackney you can still see the writting 'North London Link' on the bridge where the railways goes across.

Highbury & Islington still has signs on the platform for the North London Link I think, even now it's London Overground.

 

[Solent&Wessex]

2 more for you.

1 from the subway at Hebden Bridge next the boarded up, but still evident, goods cage lift.

1 from Selby Platform 1.

 

[The Sleeper]

still ONE old flourescent light left....

Cleethorpes station - i think its platform 3 - the non existent one!
lol

These are quite rare now - the ones at Diss are used as window boxes and look quite nice - a clever touch!Thanks for posting

 

[dickdarlington]

Slightly related - there is a pedestrian sign on the Victoria Road Exit of Darlington, proclaiming "Feethams - Football and Cricket". DFC haven't played at Feethams since 2003, and the last first class game of cricket was in 1994.

Doesn't really compare to some of the others though.

 

[davelew99]

These are quite rare now - the ones at Diss are used as window boxes and look quite nice - a clever touch!Thanks for posting

Chester has quite a few of these lights - on the platform which isn't a platform.

 

[Smethwickian]

A few years ago at Fareham, a few of the poster display cabinets were removed from the waiting room wall on the island platform, revealing a few British Rail posters from the 1960s and 1970s.

Similarly revealed, a 1980s-ish Golden Rail poster on Coventry platform 3, currently visible behind a new equipment cabinet of some kind.

 

[313103]

Noted on a recent trip to Moorgate a full Metropolitan and Chiltern Line timetable for 1982!

 

[robertclark125]

A friend has confirmed to me that the br tresspass signs at Hebburn Tyne and Wear metro are still there. It's worth noting that EWS/DBS freight trains do run on a third track past the station, but the platform on the newcastle side is well away from it!

 

[snail]

Here's a blast from the past I spotted in the booking office at Lancaster.

 

[Deerfold]

At Sowerby Bridge:

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/sjp/SOW/images/photos/800/o3100-0000046.jpg

Trains to Manchester, Liverpool...

It must be over 20 years since there were direct trains to Liverpool.

 

[ACE1888]

Carnell Green sited around a mile from Gwinear Road station (closed 1964) still signposted today

Station was the Junction for the Helston Branch (closed 1962 and to Freight in 1964)

 

[robertclark125]

Here's a blast from the past I spotted in the booking office at Lancaster.

For those wondering, Rabbit was a mobile phone operator in the early 1990s. Sponsored the England Rugby Union team for a season.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Just a couple of things that I have seen. Both photos date from August this year, so should still be there.

The first picture is of what I call the station totem pole outside Great Yarmouth.
The second picture is of a sign stuck on the old station building at Lowestoft.

 

[deltic1989]

Somewhere between Nottingham and Lincoln (possibly rollerston). There is a sign attached to the gate of the old ticket room. 'close this gate. Penalty 2d'. If I go that way today I'll try and get a pic of it

That would be Lowdham sir

 

[Deerfold]

For those wondering, Rabbit was a mobile phone operator in the early 1990s. Sponsored the England Rugby Union team for a season.

Well, sort of. You could use your rabbit phone anywhere within a certain distance of a Rabbit base. Businesses were encouraged to have these bases (and to display the sign shown) and took a percentage of the call charges.

"Rabbit" are now better known as "3", with the parent company having also started and run Orange.

 

[Railfreight 90]

How about this on the bridge next to Rotherham Masbrough

http://g.co/maps/7m55h

 

[exile]

There's a sign in Preston pointing to the long defunct Red Star Parcels point.

 

[NSE]

Not that old, but still out of date, are the Jubilee line signs/posters which all display a connection with the East London line still.
Also I think its Carshalton station that still has a Connex South Central logo on it.

 

[RPM]

2 more for you.

1 from the subway at Hebden Bridge next the boarded up, but still evident, goods cage lift.

1 from Selby Platform 1.

I can't believe that Selby "Newspapers" sign is still there. I photographed it nearly a decade ago and thought it was an unlikely survivor then!

 

[dickdarlington]

Well, sort of. You could use your rabbit phone anywhere within a certain distance of a Rabbit base. Businesses were encouraged to have these bases (and to display the sign shown) and took a percentage of the call charges.

"Rabbit" are now better known as "3", with the parent company having also started and run Orange.

I didn't know about 3 being an offshoot of Rabbit, and I work in the industry.

Hutchinson Telecom owned Rabbit. They then founded Orange in the mid nineties. This was purchased by Mannismann who were later purchased by Voda. The monopolies commission said no to Voda owning Orange and subsequently, Orange was sold to France Telecom primarily for the brand. In 2009 FT and Deusch Telecom created a joint company based in the UK called Everything Everywhere. Everything Everywhere have the brands T Mobile and Orange. With the long term plan of completely merging networks, but this has some issues logistically. 3 use the T Mobile voice network, but have their own data paths.

 

[premier01]

I think 3 also have some of their own infrastruv
infrastructure for voice calls on their network.

 

[chief]

on the ellesmere port bound platform at ince & elton there is a sign that says trains from this platform to hooton & chester, change at hooton for trains to liverpool. trains havent gone past ellesmere port since merseyrail was extended in 1994.

 

[driver9000]

There's a sign in Preston pointing to the long defunct Red Star Parcels point.

There is more than one, there is another at the corner of Christian Road along with the one near the station entrance.

 

[robertclark125]

Look out at Kirkcaldy for the painted over Parcels Point sign on the down platform. Painted white, but the lettering is still visible.

 

[driver9000]

I can't believe that Selby "Newspapers" sign is still there. I photographed it nearly a decade ago and thought it was an unlikely survivor then!

Still there about a year ago