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Huddersfield Station toilets
"This door is automatic"
"Press here to open"
"This door is automatic"
"Press here to open"
Huddersfield Station toilets
"This door is automatic"
"Press here to open"
How does the train know you're approaching your final destination? Presumably you'll be travelling beyond the station or perhaps changing trains? In fact, it's not the train's final destination either - that will be the scrapyard where it finally ceases to become a train.Not a sign, but an announcement. 'We are now approaching our final destination'.
What is a destination if it isn't final?
Travelling via Wales? :Pannouncement years ago on a GNER service to Aberdeen north of Newcastle/Scottish border.
"Welcome back to God's own country"
The suffix “Halt” is not synonymous with “request stop.” It is an outdated term that just referred to very small station that was brought back into use by Great Western ten years ago on station signage and then two stations on that branch officially being renamed (on National Rail enquiries etc) a short while after.Coombe Junction Halt.
It isn't a request stop.
It specifically referred to an unstaffed station - a station is where people were stationed, a halt is just where trains came to a halt (though GWR also had the term "platform" for a station larger than a halt but not deserving of the name "station"). Obviously with widespread destaffing of stations the term became obsolete, except to evoke a sense of nostalgia.The suffix “Halt” is not synonymous with “request stop.” It is an outdated term that just referred to very small station that was brought back into use by Great Western ten years ago on station signage and then two stations on that branch officially being renamed (on National Rail enquiries etc) a short while after.
Huddersfield Station toilets
"This door is automatic"
"Press here to open"
Several locked cupboards at Victoria with the sign "Danger: Low voltage".
"Low voltage" is defined as being 50 - 1000v AC or 120 - 1500v DC. I would imagine there is mains voltage in those cupboards.
You get doors like that all over the place, presumably to aid those with mobility difficulties. They'll open automatically but only if you tell them to. As a result if you choose to push or pull them as you usually would you'll find they seem a lot heavier.
"Disabled Toilets". Why are the toilets disabled?
I'd probably be disabled if someone urinated on me every few minutes.
Not a sign, but an announcement. 'We are now approaching our final destination'.
What is a destination if it isn't final?
"If you see anything unusual or suspicious contact BTP on 61016"
Really? Where on earth to start - My Northern service home actually has a driver? The windows on this Pacer don't leak?
On a similar note, Arriva Trains Wales on-train announcements say "this train will call at the following principal stations ..."
And then lists every station, all the way to Tenby or wherever.
I agree, but would reluctantly accept that as an 'intercity' service does not call at all stations, the ones it does call at are 'principal'. It's still a pointless word to include, though.I also find this odd. What's wrong with "This train is for Blah. Calling at: Owls, Chips, Whatever North and Blah"? I dislike the pointless addition of words.
Virgin Trains has taken to the principal stations thing too. As if Sandwell & Dudley is a principal station.
IIRC, on trains on the North Wales coast, the request stops don't get announced, and East Didsbury is also missing.On a similar note, Arriva Trains Wales on-train announcements say "this train will call at the following principal stations ..."
And then lists every station, all the way to Tenby or wherever.
Correct. In effect, the 175s announce all the stations it will definitely make passenger stops at, but skips the request stops it might call at (which are in the subsequent anouncement about requesting a stop from guard).IIRC, on trains on the North Wales coast, the request stops don't get announced, and East Didsbury is also missing.