Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 17:01:56 GMT
I was at Woodford at around midday today, waiting for a westbound train. One duly arrived and, as it was arriving, I spotted one of the station assistants (possibly not his actual grade - that I don't know) walking up to the cab. He handed over two rolls of paper (probably about A3 size) and said something about South Woodford which I didn't really catch. At South Woodford, one of the rolls of paper was given to a member of station staff when the train arrived and the other one was handed over, in the same way, at Snaresbrook.
This I haven't seen before, it reminded me a bit like the tokens they sometimes use on single-track sections. Does anybody know what was going on here?
|
|
Rich32
Staff Emeritus
Posts: 1,506 
|
Post by Rich32 on Jun 30, 2014 18:33:17 GMT
Probably distributing weekly engineering posters to nearby stations.
|
|
rincew1nd
Administrator
Junior Under-wizzard of quiz
Posts: 10,286
|
Post by rincew1nd on Jun 30, 2014 19:04:59 GMT
The easiest way to distribute paper materials around a railway is generally by train. Nowadays the only papers that needs distributing around the network are posters - until every station is equipped with a poster printer the method perfected by the Victorians will continue to exist. Unfortunately the letterboxes are now all sealed up after some people found alternative uses for them.
|
|
hobbayne
RIP John Lennon and George Harrison
Posts: 516
|
Post by hobbayne on Jun 30, 2014 19:16:42 GMT
They were travel info posters for the stations on the group giving details of the special service next monday for the TDF, Nothing more interesting than that I,m afraid  |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 19:32:39 GMT
They were travel info posters for the stations on the group giving details of the special service next monday for the TDF, Nothing more interesting than that I,m afraid That's alright, that's quite interesting enough for me TDF? |
|
|
|
Post by domh245 on Jun 30, 2014 19:34:33 GMT
Tour de France - A bunch of blokes in lycra riding bicycles through london. I don't even want to guess how many will fail to stop at the red lights on the route  |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 19:39:05 GMT
Tour de France - A bunch of blokes in lycra riding bicycles through london. I don't even want to guess how many will fail to stop at the red lights on the route Ah that makes sense! I assumed it was something railway related. Yes, I hate to bring up old political disputes, nobody wants another hundred years' war or anything like that but...this...this isn't France...This is near France. But, but this isn't France  |
|
|
|
Post by crusty54 on Jun 30, 2014 19:44:01 GMT
We got a Mac computer and plotter in the LUL marketing office in the 80s.
Used it to print single posters which went out by train or courier.
Minimum print quantity was previously 50. Saved a lot of waste.
System was so good I left the company to work for the Apple dealer.
|
|
rincew1nd
Administrator
Junior Under-wizzard of quiz
Posts: 10,286
|
Post by rincew1nd on Jun 30, 2014 20:02:31 GMT
Tour de France - A bunch of blokes in lycra riding bicycles through London.
Not just London! This weekend I had the pleasure of driving City of York No3 along part of the route of "Le Tour" and I stayed firmly in The People's Republic of Yorkshire.
It seems to me that it's mainly an excuse for the British to put up signs and enforce parking restrictions.
|
|
|
|
Post by John Tuthill on Jun 30, 2014 22:01:24 GMT
Tour de France - A bunch of blokes in lycra riding bicycles through London.
Not just London! This weekend I had the pleasure of driving City of York No3 along part of the route of "Le Tour" and I stayed firmly in The People's Republic of Yorkshire.
It seems to me that it's mainly an excuse for the British to put up signs and enforce parking restrictions.
Wear your garlic to ward off the man in the hi-viz with the armband-gauleiter for a day and he's going to make the most of it  |
|
|
|
Post by Tomcakes on Jul 1, 2014 18:11:35 GMT
I did wonder the other week, actually, about poster printing. I noticed that stations had a poster pasted up apologising for delays in the morning.
Is it a case of larger stations having a poster printer, and then somebody takes a bundle down to the train and foists them on the first driver? Do subsequent stations have an attendant on standby to pick up the posters?
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2014 18:15:22 GMT
In the case that I witnessed yesterday there was certainly someone at each station who walked down and collected them. Post boxes were mentioned up-thread. These were presumably once employed if there was nobody on-hand until they were repurposed by the punterage |
|
Rich32
Staff Emeritus
Posts: 1,506
|
Post by Rich32 on Jul 1, 2014 18:18:05 GMT
I did wonder the other week, actually, about poster printing. I noticed that stations had a poster pasted up apologising for delays in the morning. Is it a case of larger stations having a poster printer, and then somebody takes a bundle down to the train and foists them on the first driver? Do subsequent stations have an attendant on standby to pick up the posters? Pretty much, yes. |
|
|
|
Post by John Tuthill on Jul 15, 2014 11:15:41 GMT
Not just London! This weekend I had the pleasure of driving City of York No3 along part of the route of "Le Tour" and I stayed firmly in The People's Republic of Yorkshire.
It seems to me that it's mainly an excuse for the British to put up signs and enforce parking restrictions.
Wear your garlic to ward off the man in the hi-viz with the armband-gauleiter for a day and he's going to make the most of it Now they've all gone on to France, two abiding memories: 1) Didn't see one cyclist riding on the pavements, and 2) The selfie on the road in the East End hitting a cyclist  |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2014 18:33:57 GMT
I have seen the same situation before but with CRIDs. At each station, the driver would give a station assistant one of the CRIDs, then repeat for the next station.
|
|
