The most out of date advert you have seen at a station [Triva]

[infobleep]

The other day I saw an advert for Windsor that was a week or so out of date. As in they were advertising something that had ended.

What is the most out-of-date advert you have seen at a station?

I will allow adverts that get uncovered during the rebuilding works but please state this. Also, heritage railways but again state it is a heritage railway.

 

[rower40]

Bodmin General (heritage) has a tin advert for "Adcoids". Does anyone even know what they are? I don't.

 

[hexagon789]

Bodmin General (heritage) has a tin advert for "Adcoids". Does anyone even know what they are? I don't.

Duckham's Adcoids - fuel additive tablets.

Duckham's were a large manufacturer of motoring products such as engine and lubricating oils. I think they were the 2nd largest in Britain and 3rd in the world at one point.

 

[Kingston Dan]

Seen a few years ago at New Malden during refurb work (from 1969?).

 

[hexagon789]

Wemyss Bay has some old posters which have been uncovered during restoration and then left in situ.

 

[Morayshire]

Wemyss Bay has some old posters which have been uncovered during restoration and then left in situ.

Laurencekirk station has 2 historic posters which somehow managed to survive from the 1960s when the station was closed until it reopened in 2009.

 

[CaptainHaddock]

If you take the Southern exit out of Leeds station there's still an electronic display saying something like "It's a breeze to stay safe" with scrolling animations of people wearing face masks even though it's nearly a year since the requirement to wear a mask on public transport was removed!

 

[43066]

The adverts for the new St Pancras International Thameslink station (opening 2007) are visible at the old Kings Cross Thameslink ghost station.

 

[hexagon789]

Laurencekirk station has 2 historic posters which somehow managed to survive from the 1960s when the station was closed until it reopened in 2009.

Very nice, I know some of those at Wemyss Bay are mid-70s - advertising cheap day single and return fares to Glasgow. Not sure if there are any earlier ones, I can't remember.

 

[Julia]

Until very recently, Baker Street platform 1 (one of the Met bays) had a poster for a mid-1970s exhibition.

 

[D821]

Wemyss Bay has some old posters which have been uncovered during restoration and then left in situ.

A similar thing happened when they refurbished Hamilton Square. They were covered up again, but not before they were photographed and replicas produced.
Merseyrail's website has an article about it:

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[Bald Rick]

The adverts for the new St Pancras International Thameslink station (opening 2007) are visible at the old Kings Cross Thameslink ghost station.

(in)famously, First Capital Connect put up big adverts at KX Thameslink just before closure, fully in the knowledge that an isolation would be required to remove them…

 

[Nicholas Lewis]

You can't see these but when we had a renewals job at Hackney Downs Sth Jcn we had to put in support strops under the track (to support the weight of the Kirow crane moving the panels ) in the out of use booking hall and there were posters left on the walls from the day it had shut. That was probably 10 years ago but nothing has happened with booking hall to my knowledge.

 

[Trainlog]

I mean Bishopstone station still has posters advertising the intercity 125 as the building was closed off until very recently.
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[RailWonderer]

Was at Teddington station a couple of years ago and saw an advert for Pall Mall cigarettes for only £3.60 on the door of a newsagents in the station building.

 

[Kingston Dan]

Anyone been in the now disused south ticket office at Surbiton?

 

[infobleep]

(in)famously, First Capital Connect put up big adverts at KX Thameslink just before closure, fully in the knowledge that an isolation would be required to remove them…

I don't know if this counts but I'll allow it. There was a road sign on the side of Euston station directing you to the Motorail entrance. I saw it some time between 2011 to 2013. I haven't checked it see if it is still there.

The Motorail from Euston ended in 1995 according to Wikipedia.

You can't see these but when we had a renewals job at Hackney Downs Sth Jcn we had to put in support strops under the track (to support the weight of the Kirow crane moving the panels ) in the out of use booking hall and there were posters left on the walls from the day it had shut. That was probably 10 years ago but nothing has happened with booking hall to my knowledge.

Do you know when the posters would have dated from?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Didn't @timmydunn and co-presenter Siddy Holloway do a feature on vintage advertising posters rediscovered 'in situ' in a boarded up part of an LU tube station during a recent episode of "Secrets of the London Underground"?

 

[Andyjs247]

Richmond has several old BR era posters, including this one advertising the new Winnersh Triangle station in May 1986.

 

[Steddenm]

Richmond has several old BR era posters, including this one advertising the new Winnersh Triangle station in May 1986.

With the senior railcard poster - were they only previously available to women? The ad seems very sexist. But then again, that was the era.

 

[Andyjs247]

I think it was more that men had to wait until 65 to be eligible for the Senior Railcard. This would have been before pension ages were equalised.

 

[McRhu]

I would love to imagine that there are enamelled adverts for Fry's Five Boys and Beechnut Chewing Gum still lurking in some deeply shadowed corners of some mist-shrouded halt somewhere in the Sceptered Isle.

 

[Oxfordblues]

At London Broad Street at the height of The Troubles there was a poster advertising "Northern Ireland for holidays" - the last place you'd want to go.

 

[Atomix330]

At Liverpool Street between the running lines for platforms 8 and 9 (I think) about 8 carriage lengths away from the gate line, there is a hoarding with adverts from around 2000.

More on that here.

 

[Recessio]

I mean Bishopstone station still has posters advertising the intercity 125 as the building was closed off until very recently.
(source railway world)
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My local station and I never spotted this!

 

[Cherry_Picker]

It’s not really an advert but someone took down a wooden panel on a sign at High Wycombe station on platform 2 to discover it had been covering a GWR era running in board stating that it was a junction for Marlow and Maidenhead. This would have been about 40 years after the junction and line were closed and lord knows how many years after it was put up as it would have predated BR.

The sign lives on in a modified (they added the word “formerly” to it) state.

 

[birchesgreen]

Euston underground station has some old adverts

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Bodmin General (heritage) has a tin advert for "Adcoids". Does anyone even know what they are? I don't.

There's a lot of the old-style tin adverts on heritage railways, left or put here to recreate the age which is often represented by the railway. I know of some of the products, but not of many of them - and "Adcoids" is one of the latter.

Didn't @timmydunn and co-presenter Siddy Holloway do a feature on vintage advertising posters rediscovered 'in situ' in a boarded up part of an LU tube station during a recent episode of "Secrets of the London Underground"?

Yes, they did - it was very interesting.

 

[infobleep]

It’s not really an advert but someone took down a wooden panel on a sign at High Wycombe station on platform 2 to discover it had been covering a GWR era running in board stating that it was a junction for Marlow and Maidenhead. This would have been about 40 years after the junction and line were closed and lord knows how many years after it was put up as it would have predated BR.

The sign lives on in a modified (they added the word “formerly” to it) state.

That's nice.

 

[Bogallan]

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.