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Old April 2nd 05, 10:32 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Mark Brader Mark Brader is offline
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Default PPP companies doing pointless maintenance?

You did. Sudbury Town has _always_ had roundels with a serif font;
they've been there since the station was built, and considering that
it is now listed, ripping them off would be a Bad Idea ;-)


Whatever happened to the flourescent sign on the station frontage? ISTR
reading that it was one of the first commercial applications of coloured
neon signage


So which was it -- fluorescent or neon?

Neon lights are the ones where a brightly colored glow comes from
inside a clear glass tube. (Red if the gas is actually neon.)
Fluorescent lights are the commonly seen ones with a coating that
glows more or less white. Most colored lighted signs today use
fluorescent tubes behind a colored plastic panel, although of course
there are several other choices.
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