OK, it could be translated as "we don't know wether we're coming or going" but as a piece of industial design it still cuts the mustard. Its simple, easy to reproduce in black and white, colour or 3D and instantly recognisable. Long may it continue!
I agree. I think the 'undecided arrow' is a useful symbol for a railway station on maps and signs etc.
Didn't SeaLink use a right hand drive version for a time on the funnels of their ferries to the continent?
Ay up!
They did indeed. It was said that the normal version of the arrow gave a "Going Backwards" impression on one side of the ship or t'other - can't quite remember which it was now. Old age creeping in!
If I ain't here, I'm in Bilston, scoffing decent chips at last!!!!
PinzaC55 wrote:Just wondering, is it just me or does the phrase "Train Station" make anyone else want to scream?.
Yes it does, i was brought up calling a railway station a RAILWAY STATION not a TRAIN STATION.
It just goes with everything else in this 'dumb down' society nowadays.
Just noticed the other day, some local bus stop-side timetables, listing the "Rail Station" . Perhaps they're trying to avoid controversy by only making half a change!
"Railroad" is the Welsh term (Rheilfford) but Railway is actually an old US usage. Companies would often switch from Railway to Railroad for legal reasons - the old one goes bankrupt, form a new company with the tangible assets, needs to have a different name, but not too different.
"Santa Fe" was always a railway, and its modern incarnation even says "BNSF Railway" on the side of their locos in their most recent "swoosh" livery.
The local heavy rail commuter service is "Trinity Railway Express" although a lot of the locals think the "R" stands for "Railroad" or "River" (the Trinity is a river).
PinzaC55 wrote: " Just wondering, is it just me or does the phrase "Train Station" make anyone else want to scream?.
Yes it does, i was brought up calling a railway station a RAILWAY STATION not a TRAIN STATION.
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Harking back to this; sort of: Did anyone else see an evening TV news report of last Sunday or Monday (BBC, I think), prompted by approach of yesterday's Westminster Abbey service commemorating the Queen's Coronation, looking back at the preparations in the abbey for the big 1953 event?
Couldn't help but notice that the reporter, during their voice-over of photos inside the abbey of that time relating to construction of temporary measures (such as additional seating stands), remarked something along the lines of - 'So much material needed to be brought in that a ----- ----- had to be laid along the aisle.' .....
..... The words missing above? - Were definitely "train track"!
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. Perhaps they're trying to avoid controversy by only making half a change! 
