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Is that sign the same as the old or the new signs that you mention?

Looks like one of the old ones. (Although from what you said I'm
starting to worry that I imagined the change!)

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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 ;-)

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 ;-)

Silly me I was very struck by it last time I was there, and had
never noticed it before.

They must have at least repainted them though, I'm sure some rust
patches disappeared. And the roundels in the windows of the waiting
rooms had definitely been changed - you could see the frames of the
old ones, behind the new painted-on-a-white-metal-square ones.

TheOneKEA wrote:
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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

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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Mark Brader wrote:

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.

Good point... As it was (reportedly) red and blue, I suspect it was neon.