Someone with a hard hat, a hi-viv jacket, a clipboard and unprotected toecap shoes.
Depends what we are looking at, as we have no idea.
Edit, after a longer look, its platforms, many platforms have 4 sides of 2 different tracks. When I worked out it was a screen I knew, hence why the sticker is there, and also why your behind it.
Having worked in a railway station, it’s exactly what you’re imagining it would be.
That seems like an awfully small place for the trains to depart from
Probably people being dumb mate, seriously you wouldn’t believe what questions people ask station staff.
Case in point, my local station has a footbridge connecting platforms 1&2 to platform 3, there’s a lift on each platform to get to the footbridge. I watched a woman, with her children, get in the lift at platform 3, go up, come back down and ask the station staff how she can get to platform 2. The station staff told her to use the lift to which the woman said ‘but that only takes me to a place called footbridge’.
Australian tourists
There’s a(t least one) person behind every policy, sign & warning…
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But technically, that is the opposite side of the screen
That’s the side that shows the on time arrivals
Americans, most likely.
Maybe someone was looking at the screen and asked to turn it over.
Some say it’s made by the same people who designed the ‘Sign Not In Use’ road sign.
The Science museum had an Apollo landing exhibit, which had a sign that read
“please do not walk on the moon”.
we used to have a manual at work for a computer monitor with do’s and don’ts graphics, and one of the graphics was a man sat watching the monitor which was upside down – but maybe didn’t warn you not to try and watch the back of it.
The arrivals are on the other sign?
This one is for departures. If it’s a busy platform there is no point pushing through to see the arrivals on this screen
Found a sign on my Tesco’s door yesterday saying please do not enter if fire alarm is sounding
Honestly if you’re tired and you’ve got a bunch of kids with you and you’ve been travelling and the kids are hungry and you’ve got a pile of bags and you’re running late and one kid has an eye infection and one kid has lost their toy…
it can help to have clear directions and labelling around you.
Years ago I was heading to a Uni open day and I had to change trains at Manchester Piccadilly, and I’d gotten up quite early, so despite having a nap on the train, I was still half asleep when I got to the station.
So, I got through the ticket barrier and I needed to know which platform to catch my next train, and the departure boards are right above a kiosk that was closed for renovation.
I was looking for my connecting train but none of the times on the boards made sense; this was late morning and all these trains were for the evening. And some of these places, they didn’t sound real. I stood there scratching my head trying to make heads and tails of it.
It wasn’t until someone tapped me on the shoulder and went “They’re cardboard, mate,” that I realised they were imitation signs, likely put there to show where the departures board would go when the kiosk reopened, so I’d spent ten minutes staring at these fake boards hunting for my train and making myself look like an absolute fool.
I’m an on-site signage and communication officer and can confirm. People are dumb AF
The same kind of people who made it necessary for my last hair dryer to contain a warning not to use in the shower.
I’m a train driver, I can be stood right in front of my train with the destination clearly displayed on the front and someone will still ask if it’s the train to that destination.
People leave their brains at the door of railway stations.
I was stood next to a 4’ sign at Bristol parkway that said “This train for temple meads” I commented on it to the guy in high vis an he invited me to stand with him whilst people repeatedly asked him if this was the train for Temple meads.
As a bonus, after he had confirmed it, some of them walked to the back of the train and asked the guard the same question.
This sign is completely necessary.
Can imagine people asking: “Scuse mea, where is the screen and how the pposite side looks like?”
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Someone with a hard hat, a hi-viv jacket, a clipboard and unprotected toecap shoes.
Depends what we are looking at, as we have no idea.
Edit, after a longer look, its platforms, many platforms have 4 sides of 2 different tracks. When I worked out it was a screen I knew, hence why the sticker is there, and also why your behind it.
Having worked in a railway station, it’s exactly what you’re imagining it would be.
That seems like an awfully small place for the trains to depart from
Probably people being dumb mate, seriously you wouldn’t believe what questions people ask station staff.
Case in point, my local station has a footbridge connecting platforms 1&2 to platform 3, there’s a lift on each platform to get to the footbridge. I watched a woman, with her children, get in the lift at platform 3, go up, come back down and ask the station staff how she can get to platform 2. The station staff told her to use the lift to which the woman said ‘but that only takes me to a place called footbridge’.
Australian tourists
There’s a(t least one) person behind every policy, sign & warning…
[removed]
But technically, that is the opposite side of the screen
That’s the side that shows the on time arrivals
Americans, most likely.
Maybe someone was looking at the screen and asked to turn it over.
Some say it’s made by the same people who designed the ‘Sign Not In Use’ road sign.
The Science museum had an Apollo landing exhibit, which had a sign that read
“please do not walk on the moon”.
we used to have a manual at work for a computer monitor with do’s and don’ts graphics, and one of the graphics was a man sat watching the monitor which was upside down – but maybe didn’t warn you not to try and watch the back of it.
The arrivals are on the other sign?
This one is for departures. If it’s a busy platform there is no point pushing through to see the arrivals on this screen
Found a sign on my Tesco’s door yesterday saying please do not enter if fire alarm is sounding
Honestly if you’re tired and you’ve got a bunch of kids with you and you’ve been travelling and the kids are hungry and you’ve got a pile of bags and you’re running late and one kid has an eye infection and one kid has lost their toy…
it can help to have clear directions and labelling around you.
Years ago I was heading to a Uni open day and I had to change trains at Manchester Piccadilly, and I’d gotten up quite early, so despite having a nap on the train, I was still half asleep when I got to the station.
So, I got through the ticket barrier and I needed to know which platform to catch my next train, and the departure boards are right above a kiosk that was closed for renovation.
I was looking for my connecting train but none of the times on the boards made sense; this was late morning and all these trains were for the evening. And some of these places, they didn’t sound real. I stood there scratching my head trying to make heads and tails of it.
It wasn’t until someone tapped me on the shoulder and went “They’re cardboard, mate,” that I realised they were imitation signs, likely put there to show where the departures board would go when the kiosk reopened, so I’d spent ten minutes staring at these fake boards hunting for my train and making myself look like an absolute fool.
I’m an on-site signage and communication officer and can confirm. People are dumb AF
The same kind of people who made it necessary for my last hair dryer to contain a warning not to use in the shower.
I’m a train driver, I can be stood right in front of my train with the destination clearly displayed on the front and someone will still ask if it’s the train to that destination.
People leave their brains at the door of railway stations.
I was stood next to a 4’ sign at Bristol parkway that said “This train for temple meads” I commented on it to the guy in high vis an he invited me to stand with him whilst people repeatedly asked him if this was the train for Temple meads.
As a bonus, after he had confirmed it, some of them walked to the back of the train and asked the guard the same question.
This sign is completely necessary.
Can imagine people asking: “Scuse mea, where is the screen and how the pposite side looks like?”