Railway sign

[DalboyParticipant @dalboy]

I am sure there are many railway signs out there and some are very amusing ones. This is one I found this weekend

[DalboyParticipant @dalboy]

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

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

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

The Flying Sotsman was showing symptoms of a leaky cock today!

Neil

[Sam StonesParticipant @samstones42903]

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

[Sam StonesParticipant @samstones42903]

At an 'S' shaped level crossing down here, there was once a sign for motorists which read …

SIGNAL BEFORE TURNING

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

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

[Guy LambParticipant @guylamb68056]

Presumably there would have been a lot of blown out cylinder ends on the S&D post 1864. Also a lot of dead patternmakers must be revolving in their plots!

Hope you didn't pay a lot for it Derek

Guy

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

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'

[GeorgineerParticipant @georgineer]

I can't help a feeling that the sign is modern and entirely fraudulent. Can anybody show me that I'm wrong?

George

[Robert DoddsParticipant @robertdodds43397]

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

[vintage engineerParticipant @vintageengineer]

The fonts are all wrong.

[DalboyParticipant @dalboy]

I admit that I know very little when it comes to railway signs and could not tell if it is genuine or not It was just something I found that a man was selling at a rally I attended.

But I just thought it was just a bit of light heartedness to show it.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Derek Lane 2 on 07/05/2019 18:08:46:

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But I just thought it was just a bit of light heartedness to show it.

And so it was – made me smile! It's just you get extra brownie points if you can find accidental humour on an original sign.

At least you didn't spend 30 years making a perfect model of No 60114 only to be told all the rivets are upside-down and its the wrong shade of green …

[Sam StonesParticipant @samstones42903]

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

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