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GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
The Lakes Halt: gwrtl1845
A 1973 view of the remains of down platform waiting room
which incredibly is still being used by passengers. The pathway at the rear of
the waiting room leads up to Malthouse Lane. The British Rail corporate signage
of black lettering on a white background is a typeface called 'Rail Alphabet'.
Designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for British Railways it was first
used by British Railways in signing tests at London's Liverpool Street Station.
It was then adopted by the Design Research Unit as part of their comprehensive
1965 rebranding of British Railways. Rail Alphabet is similar, but not
identical, to a bold weight of Helvetica (and, not quite as similar, Akzidenz
Grotesk or Arial). Akzidenz Grotesk had earlier also provided the same
designers the broad inspiration for the Transport typeface used for all road
signs in the United Kingdom.
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