A number of odd things can be seen in station signs if one keeps one’s eyes open. Here are a couple picked up from the net. Copyrights of the pictures are that of their respective creators.
First, this one from New Delhi.
Nothing out of the way, right? Now see this one, also from New Delhi:
See how the Punjabi inscription has been added. Just wondering if this was done by the railway staff or someone else.
Something similar has happened at Titagarh station near Barrackpore.
First see this one of Barrackpore, which can be taken as the “standard practice” in this area:
It can be seen that it has Bengali, Hindi and English.
Now see the sign at Titagarh:
It looks as if an unofficial Urdu inscription has been added, like in the case of New Delhi above. Thanks to those who pointed this out.
It does look to be unofficial as the official signs would have the inscriptions of different languages to be of similar sizes and not in relatively tiny sizes as in these two examples.
To end on a lighter note, here is a more humorous example of modifying signs (this time from England):
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