Network SouthEast branding still in daily use?

[jopsuk]

spying a certain WA driver driver in this thread, and relevent (sort of) to it: anyone know why the Greater Anglia WA route stations have been spouting brand new red posts on the platforms?

 

[O L Leigh]

Branding, I suppose.

O L Leigh

 

[MidnightFlyer]

The North East London Metro lines out to Chingford / Enfield et al are meant to be being repainted and rebranded in GA colours. It has (apparently) already happened on the East Suffolk line, but I know of nowhere else that has. A lot of stations could do with a lick of paint though, from Bethnal Green to Broxbourne (either way!) there must be evidence of about 5 different TOC colour schemes...

 

[CockneySparrow]

One of the stations between Ely and Kings Lynn has an NSE sign still, but I can't remember which station it is.

Watlington station last stop into Lynn, think its on the platform Downham Market bound

 

[SprinterMan]

They normally use Grey & White to repaint stations, so lots of red posts should at least make the place brighter than that. All the street lights at Bury St. Edmunds are grey except one which remains NXEA green as it is too near the end of the platform to accommodate the painting scaffold ladder thing.

Adam

 

[jon0844]

I hope they use the same NSE red so things will have gone full circle!

It was funny when FCC repainted the old benches. They'd been red for years and still looked pretty good in many places. Their grey/blueish paint didn't stick well at all and flaked within days. I guess you need to paint things differently when they're going to have bags, coats and feet scraping at them constantly.

 

[CockneySparrow]

I hope they use the same NSE red so things will have gone full circle!

It was funny when FCC repainted the old benches. They'd been red for years and still looked pretty good in many places. Their grey/blueish paint didn't stick well at all and flaked within days. I guess you need to paint things differently when they're going to have bags, coats and feet scraping at them constantly.

Got a suspicion the grey used is cheap undercoat hence it flaking quickly

 

[Skimble19]

Isn't the grey/blue colour you describe just the colour WAGN used in their final years? Only ever seen FCC paint the old benches dark blue and bright pink!

 

[O L Leigh]

No. The grey/blue is a hangover from the one railway days. In their final days, WAGN painted everything purple.

O L Leigh

 

[Skimble19]

That may be so over on the WA, but the blue/grey on the GN was definitely WAGN - We were never inflicted with ONE! The only stuff painted purple on the GN was the few remaining 317s..

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I'm sure a few 313s had all over purple as well?

 

[317666]

Anyone know why the Greater Anglia WA route stations have been spouting brand new red posts on the platforms?

If it's just the one short post on each platform, they're eventually to have help points installed I believe. Shelford has these posts.
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I'm sure a few 313s had all over purple as well?

You're quite right, they did. I also seem to remember one or two 313s retaining their NSE livery right up to being repainted in FCC livery (although I might just be imagining things). I don't think any 315s ever received WAGN purple livery, the WAGN ones were just given all-over white.

 

[Skimble19]

Come to think of it many 313s probably did get painted purple ( I didn't venture down that end of the line much back then). One thing I do remember is a lot of them were all over white, with strange advertising on the side for intalink or something..

 

[O L Leigh]

WAGN painted a lot of the station furniture purple. There were also a fair few purple Cl315s.

O L Leigh

 

[Matt Taylor]

Saw this at Romsey yesterday:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40172673@N03/8335590952/in/set-72157632407706176

 

[Skimble19]

Plenty of them about on the GN, although I believe the one at Stevenage that had 2 and 3 car has just been removed.. (Probably because no 2 car trains have called in years!)

It has been replaced by a new one for 3 cars.

 

[LE Greys]

Plenty of them about on the GN, although I believe the one at Stevenage that had 2 and 3 car has just been removed.. (Probably because no 2 car trains have called in years!)

It has been replaced by a new one for 3 cars.

Not exactly 'just', it happened when FCC took over. The old 3/4, 8 and 9/[] are still there (the [] being a modern 12 sticker).

 

[David Goddard]

Cannon Street definitely still has NSE colours on the pillars along the platforms - see here

I think a few of the old CRT-type monitors at Margate may have NSE branding on them too.

They do. We called there in the summer on our All Line Rover and I just had to take a picture of them:

 

[Skimble19]

Not exactly 'just', it happened when FCC took over. The old 3/4, 8 and 9/[] are still there (the [] being a modern 12 sticker).

Actually, on the Northbound platform they were there until a matter of weeks ago.

 

[Fred26]

Actually, on the Northbound platform they were there until a matter of weeks ago.

That's right. They were removed because one of the directors wanted the 3-car trains to stop further along the platform. The opportunity was taken to get rid of the 2/3-car stop sign and replace it with just a 3.
The unused sign is now sitting in the Supervisors office.

 

[David Goddard]

They do. We called there in the summer on our All Line Rover and I just had to take a picture of them:

And here they are:

 

[leytongabriel]

I think there are old signs at Greenford and on the outside of Essex Road

 

[Manchester77]

I think there are old signs on the outside of Essex Road

Mentioned:-

London Marylebone still has its red pillars, benches and branding on the LU ticket area. There's also a gold NSE flash on the station lettering on the exterior
Last time I was at London Euston there were still a few NSE clocks are they still there?
On the Waterloo and city line platforms at the edge there is a NSE flash right at the edge in the yellow line bit
As mentioned the Northern City Line still has its full NSE tiles, signs etc
There are some trains (Greater Anglia region) which still have the blue flash moquette
There are also some trains (Class 321s I think) which still have the blue flash in the cabs
Silverlink used to have NSE blue flash seats but that's all long dead
The croxly line (idk what it's called) still has NSE totems, signs, red railing at the street level dispute being closed since the late 90s(?)
There are/were a few NSE signs at Barking but I don't know whether they're still there (I think they were on the Hammersmith and City terminating platforms but I'm not sure)
On the Watford DC line there used to be a lot of NSE signs with stickers over the flash. Queens Park defiantly had them but I think they've been removed by Lodnon Overground/TfL
At London Charring Cross there was/is a London fire brigade thing which has the NSE flash on

 

[heart-of-wessex]

NSE Permit To Travel machine still in use at Twyford, use to love these machines, buying one as proof of visiting that station!

 

[DeeGee]

Signalbox at Aylesford station, photographed apparently in November:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3227696

 

[GatwickDepress]

St Leonards Depot has managed to cling onto its sign. "Regional Mechanical and Electrical Engineer's Department" indeed! Now its used for maintaining Southern 171s and Southeastern 375s, I believe.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/46341292@N05/5882448886/

Signalbox at Aylesford station, photographed apparently in November:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3227696

I suspect if a beautification project comes up for the station, it'll be replaced with one in Southeastern colours pretty sharpish. Won't be long before that relic has faded completely...

 

[Clip]

And here they are:

Also one in the underpass and one still on platforms 1 & 3

 

[fgwrich]

And if you want to know where some of this Ex Network SouthEast seems to dissapear too, how about of all places the Stafford County Showground. No, not joking, was there last year and the year before for Dubfreeze & Busfreeze and noticed most if not all of the bins are Ex NSE.

 

[charley_17/7]

Milton Keynes Central still has NSE-blue signage in the platform waiting rooms and throughout the multi-storey car park.

When I was at Cheddington recently doing some training, I discovered they still have a NSE-branded leaflet rack and two red bins, so took these two photos:

 

[warriorwarlord]

Chalfont & Latimer still has an NSE car stop at the Southern end of the Southbound platform. Stonebridge Park also still has two NSE double arrow + roundel combo signs on the bridge. (Both are LUL managed stations.)

There is STILL a permit to travel machine at Custom House station (DLR) now SIX YEARS after the station was closed and the track ripped up!

There are also NSE signs at Barking LUL platforms, though these have the flashes covered over.

Its funny that 19 years from NSE ceasing to exist, there is still a big chunk of its branding to be found, sometimes in the most peculiar of places.