As reported by us yesterday, the Gospel Oak to Barking Line (GOBLIN) of the London Overground will be getting roundels to represent station names on platforms. We had assumed (quite worryingly) that the stations on this rather isolated section would have fascias instead. Two indications of fascias instead of roundels caught our attention.

Firstly, when TfL took over Silverlink services it replaced the Silverlink branded station fascias with its own black lettering on orange versions complete with Overground labelled roundel and bearing in small letters at the lower right corner ‘Temporary sign’.

In recent weeks it appeared that TfL were quite fond of these poorly designed fascias that it covered up the writing: ‘Temporary sign’ implying they may be permanent.

To make matters worse, TfL decided to manufacture permanent versions of these fascias as evidenced by the grey plastic frame and quality vitreous enamel of these signs.

And to add insult to injury, Blackhorse Road was given a whole batch of fascias that had a red instead of orange background, red ring Overground labelled roundels and the lettering was not in TfL’s New Johnston!

So it came with great delight that TfL announced that it would be replacing all these awful fascias with roundels as found at all other London Overground stations and bring about the much coveted consistency that TfL are known for when it comes to their branding and livery.