In message , at 13:34:07 on
Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Basil Jet remarked:
http://www.thelightlab.com/wp-conten...t-kings-cross-
underground-station-london/6_0.jpg

Is this the largest roundel on the system, or is there a bigger one
anywhere else??

The one at Brixton looks twice as big as that. Didn't we have this
discussion a few months ago?

Yes, the Brixton one does look bigger, but the Kings Cross one has a lot
of "white space" around it, which I suppose we aren't counting.
--
Roland Perry

Here's a couple of examples from the next two stations up from you,

Eastcote and Rayners Lane:

http://goo.gl/maps/0v4qn

http://goo.gl/maps/dZ4QX

Good point. I thought newly fitted signs were on white backgrounds and that anything not in the standard font was older, and probably much much older - before today's font was standardised.

I wrongly assumed that when these things are got round to, that the old style was being replaced with the white one.

It seems to break all their own rules to fit the old style ones! There's loads of instructions on what is allowed for signage, and only one page for Heritage Stations - http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...04.pdf#page=63

Until I looked just now at a bunch of stations on Google Streetview, I didn't realise how few white ones there actually a I could think of Turnham Green and Hillingon (http://goo.gl/maps/Q3l9j, http://goo.gl/maps/7S7D7) but couldn't even find any others when looking! There are many more of the 3D ones on sticks than I realised.

That one at Brixton is one BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADAAAASS mofo roundel.
And I mean bizniss!

On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:20:35 -0700 (PDT), Daniel Orange
wrote:

Here's a couple of examples from the next two stations up from you,

Eastcote and Rayners Lane:

http://goo.gl/maps/0v4qn

http://goo.gl/maps/dZ4QX

Good point. I thought newly fitted signs were on white backgrounds and that anything not in the standard font was older, and probably much much older - before today's font was standardised.

I wrongly assumed that when these things are got round to, that the old style was being replaced with the white one.

It seems to break all their own rules to fit the old style ones! There's loads of instructions on what is allowed for signage, and only one page for Heritage Stations - http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...04.pdf#page=63

Until I looked just now at a bunch of stations on Google Streetview, I didn't realise how few white ones there actually a I could think of Turnham Green and Hillingon (http://goo.gl/maps/Q3l9j, http://goo.gl/maps/7S7D7) but couldn't even find any others when looking! There are many more of the 3D ones on sticks than I realised.

Yes, they've been fitting them for a few years now.

On 15/10/2013 10:06, Recliner wrote:
wrote:

"http://goo.gl/nolNR – this URL has been disabled.

Note that goo.gl short URLs may be disabled for spam, security or legal reasons."

Yup, I got the same.

Oops, sorry - looks like a copy/paste fail - the URL was supposed to be
http://goo.gl/nolNRS

The new, more elaborate "heritage style" sign is reappearing at most or all
Underground stations, replacing the plainer version of recent years. Just
take a look. I don't know if LU150 triggered it, but the Underground is
definitely restoring more of its classic look.


There is a roundel that has a slightly modernist look on the District
Line, I think at Mansion House.

On 2013\10\17 00:08, wrote:

There is a roundel that has a slightly modernist look on the District
Line, I think at Mansion House.

If by modernist you mean Art Deco, it's probably at Monument.

On 17/10/2013 01:28, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2013\10\17 00:08, wrote:

There is a roundel that has a slightly modernist look on the District
Line, I think at Mansion House.

If by modernist you mean Art Deco, it's probably at Monument.

I was referring to this kind of roundel, which is at Ealing Broadway.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ay_Roundel.png

There is another one on the District Line, somewhere in Zone 1. I'm
thinking Mansion House.

wrote:
On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:39:34 +0100, "
wrote:

On 17/10/2013 01:28, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2013\10\17 00:08, wrote:

There is a roundel that has a slightly modernist look on the District
Line, I think at Mansion House.

If by modernist you mean Art Deco, it's probably at Monument.

I was referring to this kind of roundel, which is at Ealing Broadway.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ay_Roundel.png

There is another one on the District Line, somewhere in Zone 1. I'm
thinking Mansion House.

That is the early version of the Roundel from the 1900's .

Presumably dating from when the station opened, and left as a heritage
feature?

wrote on 18 October 2013
22:39:34 ...
On 17/10/2013 01:28, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2013\10\17 00:08, wrote:

There is a roundel that has a slightly modernist look on the District
Line, I think at Mansion House.

If by modernist you mean Art Deco, it's probably at Monument.

I was referring to this kind of roundel, which is at Ealing Broadway.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ay_Roundel.png

There is another one on the District Line, somewhere in Zone 1. I'm
thinking Mansion House.

That is not at all modernist. It has the solid disc of the original
Underground roundel, which was developed into the open circle by
Johnston in 1919. The lettering also pre-dates Johnston's typeface of 1916.
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

Recliner wrote on 18 October 2013 23:12:48 ...
wrote:
On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:39:34 +0100, "
wrote:

On 17/10/2013 01:28, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2013\10\17 00:08, wrote:

There is a roundel that has a slightly modernist look on the District
Line, I think at Mansion House.

If by modernist you mean Art Deco, it's probably at Monument.

I was referring to this kind of roundel, which is at Ealing Broadway.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ay_Roundel.png

There is another one on the District Line, somewhere in Zone 1. I'm
thinking Mansion House.

That is the early version of the Roundel from the 1900's .

Presumably dating from when the station opened, and left as a heritage
feature?

Ealing Broadway (District) opened in 1879. The solid roundel probably
dates from the early years of the "Underground" (Underground Electric
Railways of London) in the first decade of the 20th century.
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)