LNER Route: Leicester to Marylebone

Braunston & Willoughby: gcrbw225

Looking north towards Rugby from the London end of Braunston & Willoughby station's island platform. The large station name board was formed using oak timber for the framing and board with the lettering being formed in cast-iron. The above photograph shows the name board painted with white lettering on a dark background with the framing also being painted white. In 1897 the station would have been painted in a colour scheme inherited from the Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway and therefore the background to the station name board would have been black. This was also the case after the GCR adopted a new colour scheme in 1912 and in LNER days too although the 1912 GCR colour scheme would have seen the timber framing painted green.

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