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Old March 13th 08, 12:29 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
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Default Northern Line near collision

On 13 Mar, 12:46, "John Rowland"
wrote:
MIG wrote:
On 12 Mar, 20:44, wrote:


However, I feel that an obvious suggestion has been overlooked. Why
not paint the end walls of platform tunnels a distinctive colour to
indicate the normal direction of travel - or perhaps to mark ends
from which movements are not normally carried out? The driver would
have clocked he was heading the wrong way down the platform straight
away.


Yeah, I thought that. *At a cost of a pot of paint and a few hours'
work per line. *Could just be a coloured square or something.


A red disc with a white cross bar is more traditional.


Two pots of paint then.