Does anyone remember the famous red lampposts Network SouthEast introduced in 1986? Pretty much every station in the south-east of England had their columns painted red as part of the rebrand! I remember my local mainline station still having red columns up until the late '90s / early '00s when they were painted over in grey.I do remember seeing them although only at Amberley, Bognor Regis, Chitchester and Horsham. Warnham still has NSE branded Permit to Travel machines as of 2009 when I went on holiday there with my other half, albeit painted battleship grey. I'm popping down on Saturday to see if I can find any more reminants of the NSE era.
Uckfield's old station still has them in situ but sadly the lanterns have degraded over time and the bowls have broken away or the entire lantern falls. The famous NSE red columns still exisit at Selhurst traincare station but some of the GEC lanterns have been replaced by ZXU1's.
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So the luxury 180's with a 1st class coach will be replaced by a bus on rails with broken heaters and doors that don't close properly.I did have an idea once but dismissed it as it sounded daft. The grab poles fromk a 142 could be used as brackets for lanterns but I doubt it would fit in the spigot.
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