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I notice they've been running a transitioning advertising campaign with the tagline "Be A Great Westerner"

Whataday wrote:I notice they've been running a transitioning advertising campaign with the tagline "Be A Great Westerner"

That's been around for best part of a year now - it's less to do with the rebrand to GWR and more to do with the line upgrades. The colour scheme of the adverts (grey and yellow) is completely removed from both the pink and blue of FGW and the forthcoming green of GWR.

http://www.totnestrains.com/2015-june.html

To clarify - repainted buffet car is not an HST car, rather a Mk3 loco-hauled one used, as you say, for the sleeper service. ]

A Class 57 loco has also been repainted,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yerrtizz/18818537041/

as has a sleeper carriage.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/66024/171 ... qd-qg8mBe/
http://christrerise.smugmug.com/Railway ... -8PZmFBt/A

The GWR branding is on the door at present and will be in the middle of the matte diagonal stripe too. Note too the "Operated by First" subtitle near the door.

Carpet Right Clapham has a very modern new logo, well compared to their ancient branding. Can't find it on their website though.

Incidentally I meant to post this the other day but I forgot : Homebase Newport Harlech Retail Park is a shrine to the old, chunky stencilled look - all the interior signage remains as was, the outside sign - it's like walking into the late 1990s.

No sign of it closing any time soon mind.

https://goo.gl/maps/q53Y5

Alexia wrote:A Class 57 loco has also been repainted,

Is 57604 going to keep it's heritage livery or will it be repainted too?

Alexia wrote:Incidentally I meant to post this the other day but I forgot : Homebase Newport Harlech Retail Park is a shrine to the old, chunky stencilled look - all the interior signage remains as was, the outside sign - it's like walking into the late 1990s.

No sign of it closing any time soon mind.

https://goo.gl/maps/q53Y5

I think a lot of people have a local shop that feels like that.



It's less a case of the signage, more of a case of the architecture.

I did try to find some that weren't to do with Tesco.

https://goo.gl/maps/BqBCU

However, that's on the site of an old Tesco.

I thought of another one...



But there's the same problem there too - an ex-Tesco.

Alexia wrote:Incidentally I meant to post this the other day but I forgot : Homebase Newport Harlech Retail Park is a shrine to the old, chunky stencilled look - all the interior signage remains as was, the outside sign - it's like walking into the late 1990s.

No sign of it closing any time soon mind.

https://goo.gl/maps/q53Y5

Homebase Minworth was like that, and it had been pretty much untouched since it converted from a Texas in about 1997. They finally refitted it about 2 years ago with modern branding everywhere. And then promptly closed the whole store down this year.
https://goo.gl/maps/6V67c

Both Sutton in Ashfield and Meadowhall stores were like that too - complete with bits of tape covering the Sainsburys brand, right up until they closed (last year and the year before respectively). Both are now branches of "The Range". I really can't stand that shop.

I hear there's a branch of Mothercare in South Wales which still has the full Childrens World fit out.

If its the one on Newport Road Cardiff, then its possible... Its sandwiched between Argos and Dunelm IIRC.... Will nose next time I'm there

Alexia wrote:If its the one on Newport Road Cardiff, then its possible... Its sandwiched between Argos and Dunelm IIRC.... Will nose next time I'm there

Parc Tawe in Swansea, I am reliably informed.

Ah yes. Parc Tawe. A sorta half-and-half hodge podge of a retail park - half of it's quite nice and decent, and convenient, being in the city centre not far from the Railway station. Then the other half--- that whole area is a minefield of Brands that Time Forgot - from the 1996 tombstone Sky Sports logo plastered to the side of the bowling alley, to the extant Deep Pan Pizza Company signage above the door of the long-gone restaurant - I think I've mentioned them before.

Mothercare/Childrens' World : https://goo.gl/maps/jvhHc (swivel left or go to https://goo.gl/maps/ChIAp for Deep Pan Pizza)
Sky Sports Tombstone : https://goo.gl/maps/5mctd
Posh Nice New Bit On Other Side Of Busy Road (aka Parc Tawe North) : https://goo.gl/maps/enbhQ