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Old 13th March 2008, 08:46 AM   #1 (permalink)
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MIG wrote:
> On 12 Mar, 20:44, rob...@m wrote:
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>> However, I feel that an obvious suggestion has been overlooked. Why
>> not paint the end walls of platform tunnels a distinctive colour to
>> indicate the normal direction of travel - or perhaps to mark ends
>> from which movements are not normally carried out? The driver would
>> have clocked he was heading the wrong way down the platform straight
>> away.

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> Yeah, I thought that. At a cost of a pot of paint and a few hours'
> work per line. Could just be a coloured square or something.


A red disc with a white cross bar is more traditional.
 
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Old 14th March 2008, 04:17 PM   #2 (permalink)
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"Tom Anderson" <twic@urchin.earth.li> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, MIG wrote:
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> Or you write on the floor by the cab door 'NORTH' or 'SOUTH' as
> appropriate. or 'HIGH BARNET' or 'MORDEN', whichever you like.
>


....or just a couple of large white arrows pointing the right way ?
A few minutes work with a stencil and paintpot.

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