On 2016\02\26 00:19, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:01:51 +0000, Basil Jet
wrote:


I'm wondering when either of these stations had any external
refurbishment done. If I were running Great Northern I would have
erected signs to advertise the 7-day service - I suspect the cost of
doing so would have been dwarfed by the cost of running the weekend service.

Essex Road in particular looks like the station that time forgot - I
can't even tell if the sign over the door is in the colours of the
current franchise holder or some long-forgotten one, but shouldn't it at
least say Essex Road *Station*? The BR sign at the corner is still in
Network Southeast colours, but for some reason is very easy to not see
even when you know it's there. I bet there are people living around the
corner for years who don't even know it's a station, especially if they
moved there after it was expunged from the tube map.

"The government haven't told us or given us the money to put up a sign
or buy any paint or do anything to improve these stations. We only do
what our beloved paymasters tell us to do."

Yours
TSGN.

But wasn't the introduction of the 7-day service a TOC initiative rather
than a government-funded scheme? (Which makes me wonder if they are now
failing to meet their franchise requirement between Finsbury Park and
Kings Cross... surely they are running fewer trains to KX at the weekend
than they promised, or was the 7-day Moorgate plan in their franchise
deal from the start?)