Helvetica and Italics - at Central Station

Ok, so I've been meaning to put this up for a while. As a follow on from this post: commuting-with-helvetica ... I've realized that the station I'm at every day - Central - is a prime culprit of the Helvetica / Italics phenomenon.

I would love to know why:

• people do this
• how Queensland Rail can roll out a rebranding exercise, and not have consistent signage.

To recap - here's the original picture from Graceville station:

Commuting with Helvetica

Wow, Queensland Rail have recently upgraded their corporate branding - but it's only now that they seem to be rolling out the new station identities:

New Station Signage

And, they seem to have chosen Helvetica for the station signage as well - one of my favourite fonts. Who would have thought we would finally get some good design in our every day commuter life?

Strangely enough, some stations which have recently received new signs have had a similar version - but in italics! Quite bizarre. I'll update the post when I can take a picture.