Following on from our recent work with Infrabee on rail contracts in the UK, we wanted to re-visit some more rail-based design from our archives.
With the recent discovery of a mass grave site unearthed by the Crossrail excavation team, we thought it was important to look into this project which was also faced with the similar issue of conserving heritage and history whilst still being pioneering in its approach to rail development.
In 2012 we worked with Network Rail to create a set of leaflets to accompany a pop up exhibition at Farringdon Station.
The aim was to inform the public of the improvements and other works that would be going on at the time.
We created an exploded diagram of Farringdon Station at 3 levels: Street level including buildings, Street level with road layout and building footprints, and Platform Level showing staircases, transport lines and the future Crossrail tunnel positions under the station.
Using Network Rail’s suite of pictograms, we brought to life a series of interesting facts about the station and the works being done. Each fact was numbered and located on the exploded diagram.
We also used the pictograms to create an infographic to show the future increase in trains through the station.
The first leaflet focused on the technical side of the station improvements. It folded out to an A2 sized poster, demonstrating the key construction phases.
The second leaflet provided fast facts to the public. This spread demonstrated all the key facts and where they could be found across the station. We also showed the actual ingredients needed to mix some of the materials used to comply with historic regulations.
Our work was shown in an exhibition at Farringdon Station in June 2012.