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Post by 21146 on Dec 14, 2008 23:23:27 GMT
We're now a year on from the LU takeover north of Queens Park. good news, but is anything happening now? After the initial deep-clean and repainting frankly nothing seems to be going on and stations appear increasingly shabby.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2008 22:56:19 GMT
I'm not sure the stations are in much better nick than before to be honest, but I think we can expect these things to take a bit longer than a year. That said, the Silverlink signage on most of the platforms has simply been covered up instead of removed altogether...simple task you would have thought.
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Post by superteacher on Dec 23, 2008 23:10:04 GMT
I think the stations north of Harrow and Wealdstone look worse than those south of that point.
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Post by dazz285 on Jan 2, 2009 18:20:16 GMT
Otherway round more like. LUL have done little or nothing to the stations south of H&W
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Post by ruislip on Jan 2, 2009 20:28:21 GMT
When LT operated services as far as Watford Junction, did the stations north of Harrow & Wealdstone ever have LT roundels?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2009 22:03:47 GMT
When LT operated services as far as Watford Junction, did the stations north of Harrow & Wealdstone ever have LT roundels? Not sure but there is still a sign up near Watford High Street station with an Underground roundel on it. |
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Post by DWS on Jan 2, 2009 22:05:58 GMT
When LT operated services as far as Watford Junction, did the stations north of Harrow & Wealdstone ever have LT roundels? No, all stations from Queens Park to Watford Junction were British Railways and had BR signs. |
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Post by astock5000 on Jan 2, 2009 23:01:33 GMT
there is still a sign up near Watford High Street station with an Underground roundel on it. Where? I don't remember seeing it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2009 23:05:30 GMT
there is still a sign up near Watford High Street station with an Underground roundel on it. Where? I don't remember seeing it. Can't remember exactly where, somewhere between the station and the Harlequin shopping centre. It's a road sign btw, not an LU sign. |
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Post by astock5000 on Jan 2, 2009 23:18:47 GMT
I thought that it must be a road sign. If it's betwwn the station and the Harlequin, then it is probably where the 'Ring Road' crosses the High Street.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2009 0:18:21 GMT
From the esrly 1970's all stations between Queens Park and Watford Junction had both LT roundel and BR double arrows at the front of the station. Usually mounted on a pole and quiet often stuck on the bridge parapet as most stations have a road over bridge.
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Post by 21146 on Jan 3, 2009 0:22:49 GMT
From the esrly 1970's all stations between Queens Park and Watford Junction had both LT roundel and BR double arrows at the front of the station. Usually mounted on a pole and quiet often stuck on the bridge parapet as most stations have a road over bridge. There were joint roundel/BR totem exterior signs installed from the late-40s/50s, see the LT Museum photo on-line library. |
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Post by ruislip on Jan 3, 2009 1:19:43 GMT
From the esrly 1970's all stations between Queens Park and Watford Junction had both LT roundel and BR double arrows at the front of the station. Usually mounted on a pole and quiet often stuck on the bridge parapet as most stations have a road over bridge. I have a picture in a book showing such a set-up, along with a London Country "flying polo" sign, at Watford Junction. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2009 11:19:36 GMT
Apropos of which there was (late eighties - don't know if it's still there) a sign at Mill Hill (Broadway) Station (under the motorway), with LT Underground (specifically) roundel, BR double arrow and NSE flash (all mounted on a red pole). Now a bus (or generic) roundel I could understand (for the the bus station), but can anybody say why an Underground roundel?
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Post by metman on Jan 3, 2009 12:13:40 GMT
It may have been a relic of the Northern Line scheme that was to use the old GNR line from Mill Hill East to Edgware GN. Mill Hill 'The Hale' was an intermediate station sited near Mill Hill Broadway. When the idea was dropped after WW2 it was said that LU tickets could be bought from Mill Hill Broadway.
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Post by ruislip on Jan 4, 2009 2:16:25 GMT
It may have been a relic of the Northern Line scheme that was to use the old GNR line from Mill Hill East to Edgware GN. Mill Hill 'The Hale' was an intermediate station sited near Mill Hill Broadway. When the idea was dropped after WW2 it was said that LU tickets could be bought from Mill Hill Broadway. I think that arrangement lasted until around 1970. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2009 10:26:13 GMT
It may have been a relic of the Northern Line scheme that was to use the old GNR line from Mill Hill East to Edgware GN. Mill Hill 'The Hale' was an intermediate station sited near Mill Hill Broadway. When the idea was dropped after WW2 it was said that LU tickets could be bought from Mill Hill Broadway. I think that arrangement lasted until around 1970. ... and the sign long post dated that. |
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