"Mizter T" wrote in message
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On 11 Nov, 20:30, "Paul Scott" wrote:
"Mizter T" wrote in message

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[crossposted to uk.transport.london and uk.railway]

Lots of other comments have already been made as to what the new
branding will be, whether existing trains will get new liveries, what
signs will be replaced and when. I don't think ephemeral changes such
as this are really the important ones - it's real changes that people
care about.

...... of the places where there have been significant rebuilds.
Instead
of pokey ticket office windows (which used not to be open for business
that often anyway) there are now large all-seeing windows, and a
number of stations are having ticket gates installed (I noticedbrand
new ones at Acton Central just the other day).

I always think that is an improvement many older tube stations should
have...

Some LU stations at least will be listed I suppose.

Why is it that the Victorians deemed that railway booking office
windows were to be pokey little holes?



A number of recent threads have mentioned that LO branding wouldn't
appear
unless a particular station has reached an acceptable state, so that
state
must be typified by Highbury & Islington, where the platform name boards
are
LO style including the orangeroundel, I wasn't too impressed by the white
on orange text for the station name though. So IMHO there are a couple
along towards Willesden Junction that meet that sort of condition and
could
be 'LO'd' quickly. Also heard from a fellow traveller that the LO
platforms
at Harrow and Wealdstone have been 'done'.

Woah - hold your horses! Take a look at this post on "The Transport
Forum" which is a fairly authoratative sounding report on a talk given
at the LT Museum on the upcoming Overground rebranding exercise

Yes I'd seen that too - I probably shouldn't have used the word 'done'
which could imply the job was completed, I was really just saying that it
appears to me that there are other stations that look as good as or better
than H&I that could also be 'done' in the same way, ie with the orange
vinyl over the existing name boards at least.

I know there are eventually '3D' roundels etc to go up, in fact I saw one
wrapped up on the floor at Willesden platform 2 yesterday, where it looked
like some sort of production company were assembling a stage set, presumably
for a launch of sorts.

Paul S