Maybe it was Abellio's internal design department who did it. Northern's branding is hardly complex. Another way to reduce costs and win franchises I guess.
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Maybe it was Abellio's internal design department who did it. Northern's branding is hardly complex. Another way to reduce costs and win franchises I guess.
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Ivo
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That "GA" logo on the address bar (where Wikipedia has a W, where Google has a few multi-coloured blobs and where this very forum simply has the IE "e" symbol) looks badly wrong...
Eagle
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This looks more like it was knocked up in five seconds by someone, not in the branding department, in Powerpoint as an interim logo but nobody bothered to make a proper one. I mean it's using Calibri, the MS Office default font!
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For me the forum's favicon is a little
, but then again unlike you I'm using a decent browser...
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dk1
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Auto sign-on for staff has lost its NX speech, GA posters have appeared along the route & the first trains are on depots complete with new logo's.
O L Leigh
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Great day at work. Not seen my colleagues so happy in nearly 8 years. Been singing along to The Divine Comedy to the words 'Goodbye National Express' all day. Happy times
Then they are kidding themselves if they really think things will be different under new management. Wait and see what happens once the honeymoon period is over.
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dk1
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No kidding going on anywhere. Just glad to see the ar*e end of this shower. Much alcohol consumption in play on the North patch.
MidnightFlyer
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Found loads of GA literature around Stansted Airport and the main stations in NE London today - very red. Most of it seems totally new, except the timetables, which have just had grey shading replaced with red shading...
DJ737
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G'day
Down here due to the time difference, the countdown clock has reset itself to 365d 18hr etc....
Cheers
DJ737
Melbourne (no snow), Australia
dk1
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Only cosmetic changes.
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Eagle
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Of course it is, it's an overnight decalling job!
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Well my last NXEA miles were infront of 90011 on 1P54 1800 LST to NRW, through out the day I've seen various names for the franchise, I boarded a 'one' service at Upminster earlier, onboard it was an NXEA and on alighting at Romford I was greeted by Abellio posters! (see pictures)
I have grabbed some of the new leaflets, I like the new delay repay forms and the timetables, although relatively simply changed, have been done quite well. I look forward to the caretaker franchise although I hope the senior management who are being displaced by the take over the very best in their future careers!
Bearing in mind NX have been in charge since privatisation, their time has come
TP
EDIT: 3 hrs 59 mins 59 secs until goodbye NXEA - Four Hours Until Launch of GA!
I have grabbed some of the new leaflets, I like the new delay repay forms and the timetables, although relatively simply changed, have been done quite well. I look forward to the caretaker franchise although I hope the senior management who are being displaced by the take over the very best in their future careers!
Bearing in mind NX have been in charge since privatisation, their time has come
TP
EDIT: 3 hrs 59 mins 59 secs until goodbye NXEA - Four Hours Until Launch of GA!
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dk1
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Thats a good omen then, unlike NX's initial shocker!!
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Eagle
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Except on the WA routes, where they and their predecessors Prism have been ruling for 16 years...
O L Leigh
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Oh dear, more inaccuracies. Prism Rail was bought out by NX in 2000.
As for 'one' and NXEA being a continuation of post-NX WAGN, again that is a fallacy. When the combined franchise was first awarded in 2004 most of the former WAGN management was replaced by their equivalents displaced from FGE. Very few were retained, and of those most left soon afterwards.
O L Leigh
As for 'one' and NXEA being a continuation of post-NX WAGN, again that is a fallacy. When the combined franchise was first awarded in 2004 most of the former WAGN management was replaced by their equivalents displaced from FGE. Very few were retained, and of those most left soon afterwards.
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WillPS
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My parents are Virgin Media customers, and have been for 14 years. That the company they initially joined with was Diamond Cable and somewhere in between then and now they were taken over by NTL and then merged in to Telewest does not change the fact.
If Virgin Media were to be stripped of the Nottingham cable franchise, and it were awarded to somebody else, they would no longer be Virgin Media customers.
If Prism had lost their franchise Connex-style, I'd take your point.
If Virgin Media were to be stripped of the Nottingham cable franchise, and it were awarded to somebody else, they would no longer be Virgin Media customers.
If Prism had lost their franchise Connex-style, I'd take your point.
O L Leigh
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But equally you can't claim that simply because Diamond Cable morphed through various mergers and takeovers into something else it is still a Diamond Cable service. The management changes often along with the name.
Prism Rail was a consortium of former BR managers. When NX bought them out these people left. When the Greater Anglia franchise area was created and awarded to 'one', these managers were in turn moved out. There is no continuity. Surely that is the point.
O L Leigh
Prism Rail was a consortium of former BR managers. When NX bought them out these people left. When the Greater Anglia franchise area was created and awarded to 'one', these managers were in turn moved out. There is no continuity. Surely that is the point.
O L Leigh
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...ail-in-pounds-27m-shares-bonanza-1358523.html
Most of the founders ran bus companies.
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O L Leigh
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There you go. Even I can't get everything right. But the information is out there if only people wish to search for it.
O L Leigh
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I know it's highly unlikely, but I wish Greater Anglia would reintroduce Shenfield as a stop for the Liverpool Street - Norwich service. Since NXEA withdrew it, travelling from Southend Vic to Norwich has added an extra change at Chelmsford/Colchester and 20 mins+ onto the journey time.
Ah...one can dream.
Ah...one can dream.
WillPS
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I've gotta say, as an East Midlands Trains customer - I really miss NX (Midland Mainline and Central Trains).
dvboy
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As an NX Buses customer I'm waiting for the day the whole.company collapses and they have to sell the bus.divisions off!
ushawk
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Probably isnt the best day to start a new franchise....with the majority, if not all your operating area under a lot of snow
Eagle
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Probably isnt the best day to start a new franchise....with the majority, if not all your operating area under a lot of snow
And with planned Sunday engineering works all over the GEML too...
Ivo
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Eagle
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That's because the links are automatic, but the details were typed manually by someone.
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I used to know someone who lived in Ware, so I used to use the Hertford East and fast Broxbourne services regularly. When I first started, NXEA had been in for about a year and services were a bit patchy. But over time, they became more and more reliable and I can only recall one time when the service was cancelled - problems with the overhead lines -a couple of delays, and a couple of occasions when the service was suspended due to matters out of NXEA's control. (One of which was a chap walking across a level crossing with a long fishing pole...... :roll
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So my experiences of them were very good. I don't much care for NX as a company, especially the way they treat their coach drivers, but they did seem to do a good job on the NXEA franchise.
(Much prefer their interiors to those of SWT's 455s, too, being similar trains...)
Oh well, let's see what the next lot do. 8 minutes to go as I type this!
Edit: Totally inconsequential edit - just something I noticed. Go to NXEA's website. Click "View realtime information" at the bottom of the live updates section. Note the icon next to "Tickets and Fares" on the top menu bar. Now click "Home" on the menu bar and look at the icon again. I wonder if that's intentional? (Now 5 minutes...)
.So my experiences of them were very good. I don't much care for NX as a company, especially the way they treat their coach drivers, but they did seem to do a good job on the NXEA franchise.
(Much prefer their interiors to those of SWT's 455s, too, being similar trains...)
Oh well, let's see what the next lot do. 8 minutes to go as I type this!
Edit: Totally inconsequential edit - just something I noticed. Go to NXEA's website. Click "View realtime information" at the bottom of the live updates section. Note the icon next to "Tickets and Fares" on the top menu bar. Now click "Home" on the menu bar and look at the icon again. I wonder if that's intentional?
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