Mark of respect?
How on earth is changing your website into a facsimile of some goth metal message board an appropriate tribute? I imagine he would been pretty scathing about the idea that someone booking a ticket from Swindon to Didcot Parkway would be outraged that the ticket booking process didn't look like a Cradle of Filth fanpage. The guy apparently wanted it all to be "low key", so forcing all this compulsory mourning seems to be the disrespectful thing to do.
And those who considered it an appropriate gesture would probably have been apoplectic when the train turned up and hadn't been painted completely black.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
