Wot, like the one that says, ' Do not use the toilet while train is stationary'.

Clive, I thought it said "Do not use toilet unless train is in motion!"

Curiously, and very seriously; I recall that use of the word 'while' [mentioned by Clive] was the cause of a tragic accident in the mid/late 1960s

Somewhere in the Lancaster area there was a new 'unmanned level crossing' with a notice reading

"WAIT WHILE LIGHTS FLASH"

Unfortunately; in the local vernacular 'while' means 'until' …

MichaelG.

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Edit: Thanks to Google I've even found a corroborating reference:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6OfmAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&dq=accident+%22wait+while+lights+flash%22&source=bl&ots=25Vpov73xH&sig=ACfU3U2tHeTmn2GQBLPpB9pkQiLYFF2DiA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi4_Jzhm4biAhUdShUIHUuzDDUQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=accident%20%22wait%20while%20lights%20flash%22&f=false

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 06/05/2019 06:58:39

Defacing official railway notices to humorous effect:

'Do not leap out of the window'

'Before alighting, wait until the rain stops'

WW2 – 'During the blackout, blonds must be pulled down and kept down'

Georgineer,

I'm sure you are right. Choose your style from any of dozens of online sites.One site refers to it as a Repro!

Bob D

Not a railway sign this time, but it made me smile.

Back in the 70’s, freeways were ‘coming into fashion’. One of the early ones to be constructed was a length of about eight km taking traffic out of the city. At the end furthest from the city was a ‘T’ intersection.

It caused the inevitable pileup.

Here, drivers of semi-trailers had to make tight left-hand turns to clear the corner building. On this corner had been a delicatessen, a fact only made clear following an over-tight left-hand turn. A large truck had torn away a small section of the shop awning.

Revealed behind the crumpled mess was some of an old sign.

It read "DELICATE____".

And, I didn't have a camera.

Sam

Edited By Sam Stones on 07/05/2019 23:14:57