Temple signs

Maybe the old signs can be sold off to enthusiasts at a profit

The damage to the stations really doesn't surprise me!!

During the LT Museum's open day I was talking to one of the guys behind the stalls @ Acton. He reported that contractors now turn up, having quoted the lowest possible amount in order to win the work of removing/stripping stations, and literally rip/bend/destroy LU signage resulting in it being lost... an absolute shame!

The Museum has sold LU station name roundalls in the past that have been donated to it (a fair and reasonable means of income). Sadly due to this 'rip it down' attitude of contractors who have undercut the competition (the staff don't care about the station furniture and will remove it in the shortest time possible) this income stream may well end...

As an aside station name roundalls (e.g. Seven Sisters) have been sold by the LT Museum for as little as £25-35, only to be sold on (typically to the American market) for £95+. I'm not against anyone making a profit, but a mark-up of 300+% is IMO truly obscene given that the museum is a charity (if all profits, or a significant part are donated or passed back to the museum I apologise). Ultimately it proves that the museum has not appreciated the value of such items and should have chosen to sell them online itself.

Shame? It's an absolute travesty! You were with me when I spotted those beautiful Arsenal signs, I'd have paid good money to take those away!

We can't allow people to keep destroying history like that. All the contractors are interested in is the retail value of the scrap/recycling material, and not preserving things for the next generation and future generations to see and marvel at.

Just thinking back to Acton and seeing those ticket machines that I'd long forgotten about is proof enough to me that things need preserving.

Eh?

You think that's bad? at least they were old signs they replaced.
When tubelines refurbished Finchley Road they took all of the ''old'' signs which were actually pretty new, from the 1990's with new johnston font and replaced them with identical ones, but the only difference was the new ones have way out and a non smoking symbol on them. madness!

Could work if placement was right, #4 works for example.

well there, we have the solution then! Signs should be placed on Green.

Whats wrong with colour matched green paint? Cheaper and easier to apply.

Must have been the same guys doing this installation as those that did the retile work at Chalk Farm...

Good pics though 21146...

How has this work been signed off though? Its one thing everyone complaining rightly about a patheticly sub standard job, but has anyone put in an official complaint, and who was the person who signed it off after? Work has to be approved, so its not just the cowboy contractors that are to blame, but the manager who clearly cares more about his salary than the pride in his job and company.

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Londoners pay high enough fares as it is. You can't pee on someone and tell them its raining. And my apologies for being over the top, but the amount of unnecessary work I've seen done and been told about combined with the shockingly low standards that have been accepted in more than an handful of sites is just woeful. :<|

If the new signs are actually worse to see for the visually impaired then TfL have contravened the DDA (or whatever) and are in breach of the law. Perhaps you should point that out to them.