Classically awful, MarkA. Crazy!
You find me musing about station names that don't reflect their location unless you know what's going on
Portsmouth Harbour, Poertsmoth and Southsea and Portsmouth Arms
Barry Island, Barry, Barry Docks and Barry Links
Warwick, Warwick Parkway and Warwick Road
But I risk moving what I would feel a major issues in south London toward the lighter side.
Was it a station (Victoria) on the Newquay branch that was renamed as it was producing confusion as it had the same name as one of the London terminuses?
Returning to that roundel, it's actually an annual thing, the borough of culture, launched by the mayor in 2017, very much with the involvement of
TfL» . There are still examples of branding to be found from previous years - see the photo from Sydenham station below, rather indicating it might be Lewisham, and indeed it might be in the borough of Lewisham as Sydenham's shared between three boroughs.
Perhaps this just shows that South London's railway network's travellers are only those who already know the system, with few passengers unfamiliar with it, and the station signage is largely ignored by people who see it every day. The problem with that is that the transport operator is then in the business of managed decline. (And that's put me in mind of ticket office closures, which is something for another thread entirely...)
Mark
(Photo from a train at 70mph is indistinct, that's Sydenham Station's up platform exit and footbridge - with a
TFL▸ roundel with the words "We are Lewisham" which is one step softer than 2023's thoroughly unhelpful 'This is Croydon' spattered about various destinations.)
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