On 12 Nov, 12:29, "Paul Scott" wrote:
"Mizter T" wrote in message

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On 11 Nov, 20:30, "Paul Scott" wrote:
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 guess that all the stations will have had this interim treatment by
the end of the week so it's not really a big deal which ones get done
early on. That said, High & I is a major interchange point for the
NLL, so doing it early means the 'London Overground' name will be seen
by lots of people from the get-go of the new arrangements.


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.


There was a public launch this morning - this BBC online article
doesn't say where or have any photos (at least not at the moment), but
from what you say it sounds like it was at Willesden Junction:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7090232.stm