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Post by Deep Level on Oct 9, 2019 18:37:23 GMT
Two very different things have happened at Forest Gate which I find very odd.
Platforms 3 and 4 have had their station name signs replaced with white text on a plain blue background (no roundels) with the text in all upper case (pretty sure it's Johnston but strangely hard to tell when in all upper case).
Platform 1 on the other hand have had purple roundels added to match those seen on the unopened core section.
Why the inconsistency? The purple roundels you assume were going to happen anyway but why replace the existing blue TfL Rail signs on platforms 3 and 4? I assume they're to be replaced again soon anyway with purple roundels.
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Post by goldenarrow on Oct 9, 2019 20:34:52 GMT
Could it just be that the signs on all bar platform 1 are temporary fixtures as works are yet to be completed? Here’s a comparison of the two fonts side by side.  |
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Post by Deep Level on Oct 10, 2019 6:20:12 GMT
Could it just be that the signs on all bar platform 1 are temporary fixtures as works are yet to be completed? Here’s a comparison of the two fonts side by side. Absolutely but they already had temporary signs, they had full width stickers over the old signs which was similar but was in sentence case and featured the TfL Rail logo (still on platform 2) so I don't understand the need to replace them for temporary signs again. From that I can confidently say it's definitely the Johnston font, it's what you see on the bottom row. |
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Post by littlejohn on Oct 10, 2019 12:36:33 GMT
Aah, but which Johnston? The original Johnston, New Johnston or Johnston 100 (or indeed Johnston Delf Smith)?
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Post by Deep Level on Oct 21, 2019 17:57:10 GMT
Looks like the same thing has happened at Gidea Park, this can be seen at 12 seconds into Geoff Marshall's latest video:
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Post by goldenarrow on Oct 21, 2019 18:37:22 GMT
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Post by sunnyday on Oct 22, 2019 13:16:45 GMT
And Brentwood. I believe the target was/is to have all the East stations completed by the end of October. Not sure that target will be met.
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Post by Deep Level on Oct 22, 2019 20:53:44 GMT
But why the mix of roundel and plain blue bar?
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Post by Chris L on Oct 22, 2019 21:16:02 GMT
But why the mix of roundel and plain blue bar? Two things spring to mind. The lamp standards need to drop for maintenance. Fixing tray roundels to them may not be possible. Otherwise are the blue bars on the fast platforms? |
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Post by Deep Level on Oct 22, 2019 22:00:20 GMT
But why the mix of roundel and plain blue bar? Otherwise are the blue bars on the fast platforms? You could be onto something with that, I will need to have another look. They haven't appeared at Ilford yet so I only see this from a moving train. |
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Post by Chris L on Oct 23, 2019 19:13:26 GMT
Otherwise are the blue bars on the fast platforms? You could be onto something with that, I will need to have another look. They haven't appeared at Ilford yet so I only see this from a moving train. Went to Forest Gate today. The blue bars are on the down electrics (fast) platform. Only early morning and late night TfL Rail trains serve this platform. The roundels are on the up TfL Rail platform. The middle two platforms have only temporary signs. When I managed signing on the Underground I suggested something similar at Farringdon. Roundels on the Thameslink platforms were causing confusion. |
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Post by peterc on Oct 26, 2019 14:19:03 GMT
You could be onto something with that, I will need to have another look. They haven't appeared at Ilford yet so I only see this from a moving train. Went to Forest Gate today. The blue bars are on the down electrics (fast) platform. Only early morning and late night TfL Rail trains serve this platform. The roundels are on the up TfL Rail platform. The middle two platforms have only temporary signs. When I managed signing on the Underground I suggested something similar at Farringdon. Roundels on the Thameslink platforms were causing confusion. The Electrics are the slow lines I think you must mean the Down Main. |
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Post by Deep Level on Feb 6, 2020 18:45:57 GMT
Any idea when the new next train displays at Forest Gate will go into use? I'm also curious as to why it seems to be the only station to have then, at least on my end of the line.
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