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1  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Great Western Main Line electrification - ongoing discussion on: October 06, 2016, 07:59:54
Angry dog! I always amuse myself imagining there is somone in the hold hacksawing a length of scaffolding pole.

Thank you! I have always wondered what that noise was - hacksawing a scaffold pole made me realise exactly what was being talked about - never thought the answer to the question I'd had for years would have been answered on a railway forum  Wink
2  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Reading Station improvements on: July 31, 2014, 12:14:05
Saw some more badly worded signs yesterday, although some may think I'm being pedantic...   

At the top of the stairs/escalators at the appropriate side of the transfer deck there have been small signs added indicating the location of the toilets.   

But they read (for example, and from memory) "Toilets are at the A-side of this platform".   But this seems wrong to me, A and B refer to the respective halves or ends of the platforms, because they are long and thin.   And what is that hyphen about?

Simple English usage.  It is perfectly OK to refer to the A and B 'sides' of the transfer deck, because of its orientation, but that doesn't follow that the same is true for the platforms.  The sides of the platform islands have numbers, its the ends that have letters...

Paul

I think you are correct Paul - it does matter. If a sign does not impart clear unequivocal information, then it has failed IMHO ('in my humble opinion')
3  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Reading Station improvements on: April 10, 2014, 20:08:14
Thanks Paul - no wonder I was confused, it ain't built yet. Appreciate the clear explanation

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4  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Reading Station improvements on: April 10, 2014, 14:38:13
Excuse my ignorance, but I've always wondered - which is the festival line at Reading?
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