Just curious...I'm sure somebody will correct me on this, but I think it was once a Board Of Trade requirement that every railway station should possess a clock for the information of passengers? As we know, many stations are now unstaffed platforms SO when was the clock rule dropped and was it dropped officially or was it simply not enforced any more?
Thanks in advance!
Clocks at stations?
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Re: Clocks at stations?
There is a move afoot to remove clocks and replace them with calendars to improve punctuality.
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Mickey
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The question recently came up on the NYMR were the Pickering clock has finally been reinstated.
(I know its ex SR but it has been in preservation longer than in service )
Anyway it was stated that clocks were a requirement on manned stations.
However as with others I have not been able to confirm this.
(I know its ex SR but it has been in preservation longer than in service )
Anyway it was stated that clocks were a requirement on manned stations.
However as with others I have not been able to confirm this.
Re: Clocks at stations?
If they were only a requirement on manned stations that would explain how BR got round the ruling! I guess the next thing is to find a manned (personned) station without a clock?
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Re: Clocks at stations?
When (early '80s? - how soon memories of the once-commonplace can become vague!) so many, many stations (or was just it Network SouthEast and other principal stations?) gained the large electro-mechanical ( 'clonk', .....'clonk', .....'clonk', .....'clonk', every second ) digital clocks, any question of providing that type on manned or un-manned stations would've become, I think, irrelevant, because I always understood that they ran off the radio time signal, broadcast from the maze of tall masts that used to occupy a large area east of the parallel LNWR main and Northampton 'Loop' lines at Hillmorton, just south of Rugby (?), and so shouldn't have needed daily (or other frequent) on-site monitoring for accuracy and manual adjustment.
With the referred-to inclusion of clock HH:MM:SS time somewhere on modern LED/digital platform screens, it's my perception that many of these red-cased (-only the NSE examples?) stalwarts have now disappeared, but I think at least a few of them are still around? (Still working? Is it many that are extant?)
With the referred-to inclusion of clock HH:MM:SS time somewhere on modern LED/digital platform screens, it's my perception that many of these red-cased (-only the NSE examples?) stalwarts have now disappeared, but I think at least a few of them are still around? (Still working? Is it many that are extant?)
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