#ThrowbackThursday this week takes us to #Wigan Market Place, outside the GMT Saver Sales shop, pondering whether to get a 'Saver Seven' or a 'Clippercard'... Do you remember buying your bus ticket here?

These have got a bit of a temporary feel to them…

So seventies it hurts #orange #brown

By which, of course, I mean ‘bug’ hotel (although I’m sure some bees come exploring from time to time—plenty of flowers etc)

Just buzzing around Nottingham so been to see the bee hotel at Attenborough railway station…

Splendid non-standard chevron sign (layout is arbitrary and rail symbol needs more breathing space in the red lozenge)

Charlie Mullins, following a very long tradition of bosses complaining how difficult it is to exploit workers.

Soz. But. Decline.

A busy scene at Three Spires on May 26th 1983 looking in the Nuneaton direction. Just visible on the right is the last coal wagon of a train waiting to back into Three Spires yard. In the center is a Class 47 leading a very late running Charringtons oil train bound for Hawkesbury…

Birmingham, Saltley diesel depot, my photo July 1988.

Full marks for the faithful use of #RailAlphabet ; haven’t really got the heart to tell them they’re using the negative weight of the symbol
#Swansea #Jacks #InYourTown #TakingThe

This is rather pleasant :)

doublearrow.co.uk A quick win for GBR or Britannia Rail or good old BR to sort out when they take over - clear, consistant signage unencumbered by any advertising or distraction. Or alternately those currently regulating the industry should have already been doing!

This is new ⁦doublearrow.co.uk⁩

14 May 1984 marked the launch of Gatwick Express; this version of the British Rail symbol was devised by creative agency Hedger Mitchell Stark (acquired by Saatchi & Saatchi)

You're right, of course, but advertising such space in this way has taken the phenomenon to a new low

Quote from the NS online website:
'Our travellers are our 1st, 2nd and 3rd priority in all of our activities.'
It's the stuff of public transportation dreams

For the benefit of train users, especially those with visual impairment, the design of all railway signage (and the space around it) should be sacrosanct; consider a railway ‘network’ that has been reduced to this and imagine what it could have been like (see Europe etc)

Serious 20th century postcard vibes…

The purist approach to livery is 😘