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« Reply #585 on: January 25, 2025, 00:26:06 »
They have been doing the sort of things that usually take up the first half of any station building programme, like moving stuff that would be in the way of a new track or platform. And someone - or something - is keeping an eye on proceedings for you. It's a Leica Nova TM60 monitoring total station, living in a cage on Platform 3. Every few seconds it robotically spins round to look at (I presume) some survey reflectors stuck up on the far side of the station. I guess these are on bits they are afraid might slip down a hole someone has dug in what is (with hindsight) the wrong place.
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« Reply #586 on: January 25, 2025, 00:38:40 »
That, or it's R2D2's younger brother.

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