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Let's do some #RailAlphabet (or maybe, close enough - I'm no great shakes at spotting accurate/inaccurate Rail Alphabet) plaques at stations. Here are examples from Radlett (2) / Bedford / University. (1/3)

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

They keep uncovering old signage while restoring Richmond station (James Robb Scott for the Southern Railway; great to see it get some TLC). They've already found some Southern-era signage (see bsky.app/profile/rail...) but this is more recent. Definitely pre-1971 though. @doublearrow64.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I am thinking... if GBR takes on ticket retailing on a national (appreciate this is a bit fuzzy in GBR's case) basis, then maybe we could finally get that national rail smartcard? And maybe it could look like this? Take your pick from trad red, blue/white, Pullman grey or departmental yellow. 1/2

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Passenger Assist? Great! York station’s heritage aretefacts? Also great! But I’m not sure that putting them together like this is quite treating the heritage assets as they deserve to be. Hard to go and have a look at the North Eastern Railways map now.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

A railway building I knew very little about. Until I read this… londonrail.uk/historical/f...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t let it be Rain, Steam, and Speed. It’s going to be Rain, Steam, and Speed, isn’t it?

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Ha! The beautiful (and beautifully restored by SWR with grant funding from @railwayheritage.bsky.social) toilets at London Road Guildford have made it to the local press. I do love a historic railway toilet. Quotidian heritage restorations for the win. www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/nostalg...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Enjoy some fabulous railroad stations, even if they’re not railroad stations any longer. I am annoyed not to have seen Denver’s repurposed station in person - it was under construction when I was last there. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

A short Q&A with Frank Anatole, principal architect at Network Rail. www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/a-q-...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Some people laugh at my fascination with heritage railway toilets. But I think (a) they’re useful, (b) they’re beautiful, and (c) railway preservation has to be about the quotidian as well as the glamorous if we are to understand our industrial heritage. Thank you, RHT, for making this happen.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Oh! The first one of these is going in. I like it.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Spending a week in the second city (Brum) catching up with design projects - although the main attraction, to be honest, is wandering round the city and seeing my little blue wonders buzzing about - WMM exterior livery, interior signage style and interior moquette origination by yours truly! 💙 👍

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Competition: To celebrate my first 200+ followers on BlueSky, just like and share this post for a chance to win a signed copy of my latest book “Southern Way Special No. 20: Isle of Wight Railways in the 1950s”. @crecyrail.bsky.social

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

A couple of small heritage just-about-survivors seen recently in Scotland. What I assume to be a blanked-off water fountain at Stirling, and a (probably?) gas lamp fitting at Cathcart.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Some nice bits of small #RailwayHeritage at Muirend, Glasgow. Arts and Crafts always rare on the railways but here is a lovely grille, and the surrounds of lost platform clocks, in that style. Hanging on even if apparently overlooked. Also charming heart-shaped cutouts in the canopy valance.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

The architecture of bus stations tends to live in the long shadow cast by railway station architecture, but the new bus stations featured here by @busandtrainuser.bsky.social all have at least something of interest about them. It’s nice to see them given a chance to show themselves off.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

For a thing I'm drafting, would anyone have an image of what I dimly remember as the 1980s Romney Rail (RH&DR) take on the BR #DoubleArrow logo? I might have false memory syndrome here, but I think it was two separate arrows, one pointing left, the other pointing right, stacked over each other?

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

Considering it is Not A Bus Station it looks more like what I think a bus station ought to look like than a lot of actual bus stations actually do look like. Perhaps, like "tram-buses"/"trackless trams" (which are buses) we feel the need to invent 'cool' new names for bus stations too.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Porthcawl. It’s not a bus station. It’s a Metrolink. Winner of the BusAndTrainUser Most Bizarre New Transport Infrastructure Award for 2024.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

ICYMI - I have been writing again, this time an article about signage and those funny logos that identify Network Rail's managed stations. Even though they should have been phased out ages ago, they still keep appearing...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

#TheBeautyOfTransport revisits one of its most popular articles, with the continuing story of Railtrack/Network Rail's major station logos.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments