We are very pleased to say that, with funding from the Railway Heritage Trust, the train operating company West Midlands Trains have changed their colour scheme on much of the platform equipment from corporate green and white to be more in line with the original London and North Western Railway colouring and in keeping with the station building. The canopy support structures, the lamp posts, and information board posts have all been repainted in brown and cream – they even painted the green power box in L&NWR brown!
The Railway Heritage Trust funding also allowed West Midlands Trains to change the signs on the platform to the original London and North Western Railway-style rectangular black and white, matching those on the building.
Clearly there are areas where the needs of an operational railway have to be taken into account, such as the ticket machine and electronic information boards, but West Midlands Trains and the Railway Heritage Trust have supported the restoration project and helped wherever they can to achieve a period feel to the station area.
Our thanks therefore go to both organisations for their help and continued support which is very much appreciated.
The long disused building and somewhat isolated branch line station as a whole at Bricket Wood is now therefore really looking the part of an active country railway station as it would have been in the early twentieth century.
Finally, thanks to some more sterling work by Paul Amsterdam, a third period bench is now in place on the platform which completes the replacement of the three original metal benches that were in place prior to the restoration.
If you cannot get there to see the latest changes, the pictures below hopefully help to show how the platform is now looking.
