Trivia: outdated posters and signage

[Jimini]

2004 to 2008 I think.

 

[357]

Would that be mid-2000s then?

2004 IIRC.

However staff joining up until 2012 and Abellio takeover had "London Eastern Railway" contracts.

2004 IIRC.

However staff joining up until 2012 and Abellio takeover had "London Eastern Railway" contracts.

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Here is companies House information, showing National Express as registered office

 

[L401CJF]

On the Merseyrail network there are plaques in the ticket offices at Hooton commemorating the Electrification with BR, Regional Railways, Merseyside Council and Cheshire County Council logos. Similar at Ellesmere Port in the ticket office.

Bootle Oriel Road (?) has an MPTE sign outside on the wall.

Neston has a sign on the subway stating it isnt a public right of way or similar, Railtrack PLC.

There was a regional railways logo'd information board at Kirkby (Mersey) when I last went. Unsure if its still there.

Sorry if any of the above have already been mentioned!

 

[7414DA]

There is a lovely Network North West information poster leading to the ‘Lancashire Metro Platforms’ (1&2) still up at Preston. I’ll try and dig a photo out.

 

[317362]

Reading Turbo depot (now closed), built in NSE colours still has a First Great Western Link sign up

 

[penguin8967]

At Kemble the modern day signage is slowly peeling off, revealing old Regional Railways branding underneath.

 

[Jimini]

Not sure if this one’s been mentioned already, but I just spotted a cheeky First Great Western logo at Oxford.

 

[thelongestroad]

There are FGW logos up everywhere. IIRC there are still whole stations with whole FGW branding.

 

[Horizon22]

There are FGW logos up everywhere. IIRC there are still whole stations with whole FGW branding.

The Greenford branch being a nice throwback if you want to see a lot.

 

[Lockwood]

The Greenford branch being a nice throwback if you want to see a lot.

Oh yeah - there's that giant "pedestrians this way for trains" sign on the A40. Forgot about that.

 

[Benjwri]

There are FGW logos up everywhere. IIRC there are still whole stations with whole FGW branding.

Pretty sure all the stations between Didcot and Reading are still entirely FGW branded, not even a attempt to cover up 'First Great Western' with 'Great Western Railway', like on some of the Greenford branch

 

[Horizon22]

Oh yeah - there's that giant "pedestrians this way for trains" sign on the A40. Forgot about that.

Marlow/Bourne End branch too doesn't feel like its been touched in years.

 

[_toommm_]

On 158855 today I saw the remnants of a very old poster, possibly going back to Regional Railways days, detailing that you can get to Peterborough, Cambridge, Stansted, amongst other destinations:

 

[Purple Train]

Marlow/Bourne End branch too doesn't feel like its been touched in years.

I mentioned Maidenhead in an earlier post; it, like the rest of the Marlow branch, hasn't been touched in terms of signage, despite the works that went on with the station buildings in preparation for electrification and Crossrail works. Twyford might be the same, though I haven't been on that section of line for a while.
The decorative tilework in Cardiff Central's subway is out of date, in the sense that it points the way to platform 5, which has been non-existent for the best part of 60 years.

 

[BridgeofSighs]

Unsure if it's still there, but there was a First North Western sign up by Holyhead station warning you of CCTV surveillance. It was visible from the road adjacent to the sidings. First/North Western Trains signage must have been rare to begin with, they only operated across for the coast for about five years and mostly the old Regional Railways decals/logos etc. were left in situ.

Pont-y-Pant station on the Conwy Valley Line had a FNW logo on a telephone poster too, but curiously somebody did notice and remove it from this real outpost of a station.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I think there are still a few signposts bearing the old WYPTE "white rose" logo dotted around West Yorkshire. Unless it's been removed in the last six months there's one in Slaithwaite pointing towards the station, and there's one in Dewsbury but that refers to the bus station rather than the railway station.

 

[Steddenm]

I don't know about outdated bit just wrong.

Has been in Pariham for years and nobody seems to have noticed.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I don't know about outdated bit just wrong.

Has been in Pariham for years and nobody seems to have noticed.
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That bothers me way more than it should!

 

[MadMac]

On the Avanti Pendolinos - there's a ;little electric panel by the door saying where the next stop is and other things. but the train is identified with the VT prefix and then a number. Is it too difficult for them to change I wonder.

A bit like the IATA code for St Petersburg Airport being LED still - dating way back to Soviet times.

Some time ago, I mentioned a proposal to change the IATA code for Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena airport from BUR to BOB following the death of Bob Hope (the airport’s called Bob Hope Airport). The ramifications were so far-reaching and costly that it was subsequently dropped.

 

[Purple Train]

I don't know about outdated bit just wrong.

Has been in Pariham for years and nobody seems to have noticed.
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I find that rather more painful than I should find it...

 

[SargeNpton]

I don't know about outdated bit just wrong.

Has been in Pariham for years and nobody seems to have noticed.
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Was it ever served by Sealink?

 

[Solent&Wessex]

This sign at Tunbridge Wells was spotted yesterday, and refers the "Boards Byelaws" and the "Boards permission".

 

[Class360/1]

Kelvedon is full of the old ONE and FGE signage.

There is also an overgrown BR board car wash sign in the car park at Harwich Town station.

 

[Ash Bridge]

Was it ever served by Sealink?

Good point!

 

[Dai Corner]

At Newport (South Wales) Station there are signs for 'Rogerstone Bus Link'. That service ceased in December 2014 when Pye Corner station opened (if not before). Since December 2021 there have been trains direct to Rogerstone.

 

[308165]

Whalley station still has this notice in the car park from the reopening of the Blackburn - Clitheroe route in 1994.

 

[AMD]

Manchester Oxford Road still has the original (1950s) lighting on the lift shaft towers. Markinch had the same on the old station building albeit that's now out of passenger use.


Urmston retains one nameboard on the Liverpool bound platform from Regional Railways days

 

[miklcct]

The route map at Cheshunt shows Angel Road at the place of Meridian Water. It confused me as I am going to Meridian Water and I have to cross-reference other maps to see my destination (some of my PDF maps also don't have this new station as well).

 

[Ediswan]

The route map at Cheshunt shows Angel Road at the place of Meridian Water. It confused me as I am going to Meridian Water and I have to cross-reference other maps to see my destination (some of my PDF maps also don't have this new station as well).

Try OpenStreetmap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=meridian water#map=17/51.61029/-0.04857

 

[Sonadagothalus]

The furthest northern end of the platforms at Hatfield Peverel still has an old NSE station sign that was NOT replaced in the update. Seems the DfT are happy for these to remain but want all old TOCs signs changed.

Also at White Notley an old permit to travel machine is still there, mind you given that it is barely a station with narrow pedestrian access and no parking I can imagine it is too costly to get people to try to remove it.