Railway sign

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

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

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

Neil

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

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

SIGNAL BEFORE TURNING

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

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

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'

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

George

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

The fonts are all wrong.

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.

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 ...

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