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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2006 21:20:52 GMT
Am I the only one who thinks that the LU advertising office has given a certain sign to the advertising mob WRT recent station refurbishments?
On Tube Lines territory, Knightsbridge and Tufnell Park are both singularly lacking in advertising. Likewise, in Metronet-land Queensway, Lancaster Gate, and Oxford Circus have no platform-side advertisements anywhere.
And it looks WONDERFUL.
Is it too much to hope that these lovely new station tunnels will stay this pristine?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2006 21:34:39 GMT
I personally prefer stations without any advertisements on the track side tunnel walls.. the times I have seen posters hanging off...
Theres nothing worse than having a mucky old advert covering some heritage tiling... Take Chalk Farm for example... North end of n/b platform you have a tiled sign which says 'pstead'. the arrow and 'To Ham' is hidden behind layers of adverts... Why not just move the adverts back so that this historical artifact can be seen to all? Even if it is not relevant 100% of the time to the current destination, it's still pleasing to see such historical aspects...
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Post by version3point1 on Nov 19, 2006 22:19:55 GMT
Bond Street is looking quite nice (a bit less lively, but nice). They've whitewashed most of the tunnel wall, but it's nice to see they've kept the 'Bond Street' tiling. It looks a bit odd having it against some generic white paint than the old creamy colour that used to be, but it does look a little tidier.
Though, give it a few months and that white will be looking a darker shade of grey...
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Post by Tubeboy on Nov 19, 2006 22:25:59 GMT
Tufnell Park looked wonderful after the platforms were refurbed. There are adverts all over them now!
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Post by Colin on Nov 20, 2006 3:25:14 GMT
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Post by Tomcakes on Nov 26, 2006 18:18:39 GMT
I suppose it's a few days after they've made whatever measurement it is that gets the boss a bonus, then get the paste out...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2006 18:56:57 GMT
Yesterday I got off the Central Line at Lancaster Gate. It does indeed look good.
The only problem is... no adverts means dis-pleased bean counters.
It would be great if the refurb stayed as it is, but it won't.
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Post by Tubeboy on Nov 26, 2006 18:59:07 GMT
Money is the deciding factor as usual.
Advertising or raise ticket prices!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2006 20:18:55 GMT
I've not seen the actual prices, but for one of those huge 20ft long 8ft tall ads, must cost about £10k per site? Dunno, perhaps we can ask Viacom Outdoor!
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Post by c5 on Nov 26, 2006 23:03:54 GMT
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Post by Colin on Nov 27, 2006 3:09:32 GMT
Their prices seem quite cheap really.
For £16.20, you can put an ad in carriage for 2 weeks - could be a way of advertising the forum! ;D ;D (on a D stock of course).
Hmm........£143,000 to paint an entire DLR train for a year............
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Post by Phil on Nov 27, 2006 9:13:16 GMT
Their prices seem quite cheap really. For £16.20, you can put an ad in carriage for 2 weeks - could be a way of advertising the forum! ;D ;D (on a D stock of course). Not so cheap if you want an advert on every train on the network.......and not at all cheap if you want one in every car of every train.
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Post by Ben on Nov 30, 2006 22:31:45 GMT
Tube boy, dont even joke about fare increases!
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Post by Chris M on Dec 1, 2006 23:51:27 GMT
Their prices seem quite cheap really. For £16.20, you can put an ad in carriage for 2 weeks - could be a way of advertising the forum! ;D ;D (on a D stock of course). Not so cheap if you want an advert on every train on the network.......and not at all cheap if you want one in every car of every train. What you do is put one advert in one carriage of one train and run a competition for the first member to photograph it and correctly id the car its in. Statistically the drivers would have the greatest chance of wining, but ISTR it was more than two weeks after the first refurbs arrived before Colin got to drive one.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2006 23:56:28 GMT
*slaps £16.20 down*
Hmm, whole platform cross track at Bank is only £76167...
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Post by Colin on Dec 2, 2006 3:01:45 GMT
What you do is put one advert in one carriage of one train and run a competition for the first member to photograph it and correctly id the car its in. I like it ;D ;D Statistically the drivers would have the greatest chance of wining, but ISTR it was more than two weeks after the first refurbs arrived before Colin got to drive one. You must be thinking of someone else - I drove one on the first day in service.
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Post by Chris M on Dec 2, 2006 10:52:51 GMT
Statistically the drivers would have the greatest chance of wining, but ISTR it was more than two weeks after the first refurbs arrived before Colin got to drive one. You must be thinking of someone else - I drove one on the first day in service. Obviously. I know there was one District driver who posts or posted here who didn't get one for quite a while. Chris
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