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A photo of my local station. One point for the country, one for the "system", one for the station. Bonus for an explanation of the white signs on the grey plastic covers over the bottom contact third rail.  (not my photo but public domain) |
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Mookiemoo
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« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2009, 17:35:39 » |
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Munich airport?
Signs poiting to the two differnt terminals?
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Tim
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« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2009, 17:44:26 » |
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Munich airport?
Signs poiting to the two differnt terminals?
Sorry both answers wrong. The first by only a few miles (I am somewhere in Munich and the airport station uses similar coloured marble, but has OLE▸ not third rail). Your second answer is completely wrong. The signs are not conventional direction signs, but are provided to assist passengers and are a fairly successful attempt to solve a common railway problem) |
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« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2009, 17:47:45 » |
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Your second answer is completely wrong. The signs are not conventional direction signs, but are provided to assist passengers and are a fairly successful attempt to solve a common railway problem)
Utter guess - "stand opposite here - this is where the doors will be when the train stops"? |
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Tim
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« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2009, 17:48:55 » |
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Your second answer is completely wrong. The signs are not conventional direction signs, but are provided to assist passengers and are a fairly successful attempt to solve a common railway problem)
Utter guess - "stand opposite here - this is where the doors will be when the train stops"? very close but not quite |
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« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2009, 18:21:10 » |
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The con rail is bottom contact system covered to prevent electrocution not like out totally safe system in the UK▸
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Tim
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« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2009, 18:33:26 » |
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The con rail is bottom contact system covered to prevent electrocution not like out totally safe system in the UK▸
Except on the DLR▸ which I think is also bottom contact. Presumably bottom contact is also less prone to icing (although not a problem underground). Presumably, covered con-rail track is easier to maintain because trackworkers are allowed on the track in circumstances that would be prohibited in the UK without isolating the current? Anyway the signs on the con rail cover are nothing to do with the rail (they are not, for example, warning signs). The signs are simply placed there because they are in a convenient and consistant place to be seen by passegers, but does anyone know what information they convey? |
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Tim
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« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2009, 19:21:40 » |
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'No smoking'?  nope, Grahame almost had it (but was wrong about doors) |
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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2009, 19:24:08 » |
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It is a terminus as far as passengers are concerned (although trains run through to a siding or loop and reapear minutes later on the other track and there has been some talk of extending the tunnel)
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2009, 19:27:15 » |
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'Kissing zone' ?
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2009, 19:28:16 » |
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In that case I think the signs refer to which direction the trains depart in from each platform - I seem to remember that being fairly common
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"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love"
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« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2009, 19:29:43 » |
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recap of answers (and a cryptic clue).
Country=Germany
City=Munich
System=?
Station=? (or "ballpark area")
purpose of signs=?
I'll have another Weissbier and check again before bedtime
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Tim
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« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2009, 19:30:25 » |
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'Kissing zone' ?
I don't doubt that the Germans have a rule about that sort of thing, but no. |
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Tim
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« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2009, 19:31:45 » |
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In that case I think the signs refer to which direction the trains depart in from each platform - I seem to remember that being fairly common
Half right - The signs do tell you the direction of trains, but they do more than that. |
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2009, 19:36:49 » |
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Well, I've given up squinting at those signs in the picture, trying to work out the German - never mind translate it into English! The system, though, is this, I think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_U-Bahn  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
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