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Just in time for Great British Railways’ branding to supersede Greater Anglia’s station colour palette!
www.greateranglia.co.uk/about-us/new...
Wrote this for @lonrec.bsky.social on my new accidental specialist subject…
It is neither inspired nor inspiring. There is no flair nor passion there. It doesn’t look like something that someone has slaved over to make every last detail work. It doesn’t seem to have gone through a refinement process to iron out its obvious problems.
Someone has dropped a slanted Union Flag onto a generic outline of a train, and gone, “That’ll do.” And every one of their managers has given it a quick glance and gone, “yeah, that’ll do,” before moving onto the next thing/getting coffee/going home for the evening.
Five stations added to stationheritageartefacts.org.uk and one updated with new artefacts, thanks to @watfordgap.bsky.social, plus some additional artefacts from me. Includes the morbid (IMHO) taxidermied Station Jim at Slough. Inspired to submit something? Info about how to is in the link!
Five stations added to stationheritageartefacts.org.uk, thanks to
regular contributor Hazel Nicholson. Includes this near-inexplicable sculpture at Erdington. Inspired to submit an artefact you've found at a station? Info about how to is in the link!
You know all about those Art Deco London Underground stations from the 1920s/30s - but what was happening on the mainline railway? Let me tell you all about it...
I'm giving a talk to @artdecosocuk.bsky.social on 28 July and it's open to everyone. Tickets at: www.artdecosociety.uk/events-2/
Transport minister Lord Hendy is quoted in this @theguardian.com article about Great British Railways, about the GBR livery. He concludes with “That’ll do me.” And this, I think, is a good way of putting it. It is the quintessential “that’ll do” livery design.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
