Railway's new digital clock signals it's time for a change

Commuters rushing through London Bridge station yesterday may have missed it, but a new era in railway timekeeping and design was looming above them: a 1.8-metre-high digital timepiece, the first physical manifestation of what will be Great British Railways' signature station clock.

- Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

The new design will appear in digital form on electronic information boards on stations across the country. The black and red clockface draws on the old British Rail logo, which the rail minister Lord Peter Hendy said “represents a bridge between the historic past and a new future for our railways”.