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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2012 15:08:19 GMT
Finally got to see Latimer Road for the first time since they finished the work. I was going to Hammersmith from Wood Lane but decided to take a quick detour the wrong way to check it out.
Cream and brown aren't really colours I would normally go for, but the new style really works for the station. It's very bright and very old school. What it really needs is some heritage decor to finish it off. Maybe a Hammersmith and City railway logo.
The ticket hall looks completely unchanged though.
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Post by citysig on Jan 25, 2012 22:40:41 GMT
Cream and brown aren't really colours I would normally go for, I thought that when I first saw it. If we say "Chocolate and Cream" it conjures up images of a (National Rail Network) era long since passed. Not sure why this particular scheme was chosen, and whether there are future plans to repaint the "Great Western" branch of the former Metropolitan line. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2012 23:59:57 GMT
Chocolate and cream on buildings was used by the Western Region of British Railways, but not by the Great Western Railway. The GWR used two shades of "stone".
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Post by citysig on Jan 27, 2012 21:01:46 GMT
As the years advance, my hairline recedes, but here, have one. Maybe you can split it the way you did above.
I stand corrected. But then, there never was a Great Western branch of the Metropolitan Line.
(And I put the word "former" in probably the wrong place, making the Metropolitan Line sound like something from the past, when it is the Great Western and British Rail which are in the past and NOT The Metropolitan Line.)
Thank you.
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Post by rincew1nd on Jan 29, 2012 20:21:58 GMT
You know, I'm glad I like Crimson Lake rather than all the copper-capped Green With Rivets stuff. And don't even get me started on limp-wristed signals!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2012 5:16:40 GMT
>>there never was a Great Western branch of the Metropolitan Line<<
The H&C was built by the GWR and originally was run jointly by the GWR and Met.
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Post by castlebar on Jan 30, 2012 6:55:23 GMT
+1 sydneynick
I remember many, many years ago (50?) that some of the signage on cabins, crossings, yards, junctions etc on the H&C section between Royal Oak & Hammersmith was pure GWR, (and said so).
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Post by bassmike on Jan 30, 2012 13:44:42 GMT
I have a wooden stepladder painted G W R brown (very old and ricketty) with "Sheoherds Bush stencilled on it. Boring but possibly interesting.
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