Terrible TfW Signs
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Sharing my cool hobby of spotting shonky and slapdash signs around the railway stations of Wales.
Good luck finding Platform 2, which is in the same direction but inexplicably not on this sign. And why is the "way out" icon rotated in that weird way?
#tfwrail
#ukrail
#signage
#stationsign
#badsigns
#chester
#transportforwales
#wayfinding
4 days ago
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New signs bolted over almost identical TfW ones just to add a tiny Network North Wales logo. Plus they're the wrong size so they look a mess! What a waste of public money.
#tfwrail
#wrexham
#wrecsam
#borderlandsline
#transportforwales
#stationsign
#ukrail
#badsigns
#slapdash
#networknorthwales
11 days ago
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Helpful TfW sign showing the charging points are in between the two seats, just underneath the seat base. Plot twist: there's only one seat here and the charging socket is by the armrest alongside the window.
#tfwrail
#badsigns
#signage
#class197
#chargingpoint
14 days ago
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Excellent positioning of this sign at Chester station, neatly hiding the direction arrows on the right. Squashing '4A' and '7A' into circles also makes the platform numbers unnecessarily hard to read.
#tfwrail
#ukrail
#signage
#wayfinding
#railsigns
#trainstation
22 days ago
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Why does it say "Welcome to Cardiff" on the way IN to the station - I'm already in Cardiff. Either this sign should be on the inside of the door for arriving passengers to see, or it should say "Welcome to Cardiff Central station".
#Cardiff
#tfwrail
#signage
#railsigns
25 days ago
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Fugly sign at Haverfordwest. Mismatched fonts and an inexplicable chunky border. And do trains ever actually pass Haverfordwest at high speed?
#tfwrail
#railsign
#warningsign
about 1 month ago
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Why not make the sign the correct size, rather than shrinking down the size of the last line of text to cram it in? And when did Holyhead town centre consist of skyscrapers?
#holyhead
#badsign
#typography
#signdesign
about 1 month ago
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TfW at Llandudno Junction appear to be illiterate in both English and Welsh. What kind of unprofessional signmaker are they using that adds the greengrocer's apostrophe?
#badsign
#tfwrail
#apostrophe
#grammarpolice
#signdesign
#llandudnojunction
#ukrail
#stationsign
about 2 months ago
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Twisted and bent sheet metal signs, due to mounting on a surface of protruding bolts. Nicely finished off with a grubby pipe over the top and screwcaps not fitted. Should have been mounted on frames like the old signs.
#badsign
#signfabrication
#shrewsbury
#tfwrail
#stationsign
#shoddy
about 2 months ago
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Somebody can't spell "Tocynnau" at Gowerton. The layout is naff too: non-standard layout of languages (normally stacked) and why clutter it up by shoe-horning in the TfW logo where it isn't needed?
#badsign
#signdesign
#infodesign
#scymraeg
#tfwrail
#railsigns
#ukrail
#signfail
#gowerton
about 2 months ago
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