If you have a look at the real thing...

You can see that all the terminals are straight and not rounded, and the R in particular has a soft angle for its sloping leg. That and the overall proportions indicate that the font is Gill Sans Bold, which was popular for this sort of thing in the 1950s.

Main image from Paul and Jane via PBase.
Font image from MyFonts.com

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