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Post by mrfs42 on Oct 5, 2010 14:00:32 GMT
Now, I'm not normally thrown by symbols in WTTs, but this particular one has got me foxed. I suspect that I'll have to look at the TC concerned to get the answer but I'll punt it out here to see if anyone has an idea: So what does the square mean? These come from TTN 188/55 which is the 1955 Northern Line Christmas Timetable notice. Now, they're not the first trains out of Morden heading north, they go back down the same branch, they don't divide, and the only non-stop code is M for Mornington Crescent. The only uncoupling was a 3/4 in Finchley Central sidings on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. They're not booked to have UNDMs or be block trains either. Confused of Canterbury!
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Post by harlesden on Oct 5, 2010 14:37:20 GMT
Not trying to be a SA but surely if you're foxed, so might the less intuitive driver at that time, so shouldn't there be a key somewhere at the end of the publication revealing all.
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Post by mrfs42 on Oct 5, 2010 14:58:47 GMT
Not trying to be a SA but surely if you're foxed, so might the less intuitive driver at that time, so shouldn't there be a key somewhere at the end of the publication revealing all. There isn't. Nor is it mentioned in the keys of the contemporaneous WTTs that I've got.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2010 16:13:45 GMT
The only thing similar (but different) I see was an upside-down hollow triangle in District and Piccadilly Lines WTT 82 from 21 March 1960.
It said it meant "crew stepping back when reversing."
It may have no connection whatsoever to the hollow square, but it may be enough blue-sky thinking to help you think of a connection.
Good luck with this!
[Caveat - owning only a total of 7 WTTs - and some of those thanks to MRFS42 himself - I didn't have much to look at so no laughing at me for posting.]
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Post by rincew1nd on Oct 5, 2010 19:21:09 GMT
My phone speaks Chinese, but my PC doesn't: When Stephen Fry was out that way my phone displayed his Tweets fine, but my PC just presented me with boxes instead of characters.
If you turn the timetable off and on again does it make the Windows noise?
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Post by slugabed on Oct 5, 2010 19:43:12 GMT
Ill-educated guesses: Staff Train? Train conveying stores etc? Train has to be composed of specific tube stock? Are they all Barnet Branch trains? Might they be nominally LNER trains?
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Post by tubeprune on Oct 5, 2010 20:59:09 GMT
Clues: Only in NB direction? Only in first column? Printing mark rather than WTT info?
Do the marks appear anywhere else?
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Post by mrfs42 on Oct 5, 2010 21:04:36 GMT
Nowhere else at all - I'm coming to the conclusion that it is something that should have been got rid of at the proofing stage. It is one of those rare errors.
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Post by tubeprune on Oct 6, 2010 9:32:22 GMT
Nowhere else at all - I'm coming to the conclusion that it is something that should have been got rid of at the proofing stage. It is one of those rare errors. That's kinda what I was thinking. And not so rare. Some of the early timetables I've seen are riddled with errors.
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