Backlit direction signs
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Re: Backlit direction signs
Backlit signs are still the norm in Canary Wharf, alas GSV isn't. Canary Wharf Estate marked as a GSV free zone.
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Re: Backlit direction signs
https://goo.gl/maps/cEW9wqF3cxH2
https://goo.gl/maps/rfC91j3cGEs
Coventry used to have that. Secret direction signs I believe. Also note A51 patched over presumably A423.
https://goo.gl/maps/rfC91j3cGEs
Coventry used to have that. Secret direction signs I believe. Also note A51 patched over presumably A423.
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Re: Backlit direction signs
I suggest these were part time signals for use when there was something on at the Butts Arena, and they wanted to divert traffic into the city another way. No-one would normally go that way to get to the city centre.Bryn666 wrote: Coventry...
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Re: Backlit direction signs
In another thread, Mikeya has posted a link to a collection of old Manchester photos and Bryn has drawn attention to one showing these signs:wrinkly wrote:I'd love to see a picture of the (presumably unique) original advance direction signage for the A6 junction on the Mancunian Way, a pair of backlit roundabout signs mounted on an overhead gantry, one for the straight ahead movement and one for the right turn.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=37369
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mancheste ... 1/sizes/k/
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Wrinkly - thanks for posting the link as it was this thread I’d been looking for originally! Mikeya
Re: Backlit direction signs
No longer backlit but not removed when modern replacements were installed in front of them. Strange!Lockwood wrote:https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.13188 ... 312!8i6656
Now gone.
There were others along that route, and even backlit No Chopsticks at the Southern End
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.08500 ... 312!8i6656
Also the temporary sign at J10 is still there on a tripod
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Re: Backlit direction signs
Love the roundabout directions on the gantry signs, and bizarrely, pre-Warboys "30" signs even though the road was finished after the roll out of WB signs?wrinkly wrote:In another thread, Mikeya has posted a link to a collection of old Manchester photos and Bryn has drawn attention to one showing these signs:wrinkly wrote:I'd love to see a picture of the (presumably unique) original advance direction signage for the A6 junction on the Mancunian Way, a pair of backlit roundabout signs mounted on an overhead gantry, one for the straight ahead movement and one for the right turn.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=37369
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mancheste ... 1/sizes/k/
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Re: Backlit direction signs
I seem to remember that new 30 signs with flat-topped 3's continued to be installed for some years. Although I'd seen diagrams of signs with round-topped 3's from about 1965, I don't think I saw an actual sign like that until about 1971.
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Re: Backlit direction signs
There were a few flat topped 3s dotted around the Peak District until recently, & might still be.wrinkly wrote:I seem to remember that new 30 signs with flat-topped 3's continued to be installed for some years. Although I'd seen diagrams of signs with round-topped 3's from about 1965, I don't think I saw an actual sign like that until about 1971.
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