10800 Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 I'm sure one of the companies that do bespoke 4mm totems, running in boards, platform nos. etc also offered finger boards that you could specify your own destinations on. I'll have a dig tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted December 28, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2012 Hove required the "Do not join this train" boards for the shuttles out of Brighton. In the main those have only run in more recent years with the current half-hourly shuttle connecting into the Victoria - Littlehampton trains effectively replacing what used to be through service. There have always been a few shuttles however going back many years. Those same boards were handy on the occasions that a Brighton-bound train was diverted at Preston Park to terminate at Hove; that was uncommon but arose on rare occasions if there were major problems in the Brighton station area. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mythocentric Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Fingerboards were common on ex-L&Y stations around Lancashire. I remember them in use at Blackburn (painted maroon with white lettering) right up until the early sixties. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium zarniwhoop Posted December 28, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2012 For regional colours, stationsigns apparently do them (on card), as well as the totems.http://www.stationsigns.co.uk/page11.html and a nice green one visible at http://www.stationsigns.co.uk/page19.html ĸen [ or 'ken' if the software still trashes my preferred variant - preview is fine, but that means nothing ] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted December 28, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2012 I can recommend Jeff Duke's "stationsigns" products provided they are used within his advised limitations namely that they will fade if exposed to strong light and are supplied on photo paper which requires decent mounting if it is to remain flat. Within his site there is a section "Signs in situ" where you can see his signs on my own layout at "Platform 2" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernboy Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I remember wooden departure boards at Southern stations ... ... but I'm not sure whether the following variant is a memory, or something I dreamt-up: A number of departure boards hanging from a single rail in a wall-mounted open-fronted cabinet, where the appropriate board was raised or lowered by a lever (or a series of levers) to one side of the cabinet. Did I dream this? Or does anyone else recall such a thing? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 ĸen [ or 'ken' if the software still trashes my preferred variant - preview is fine, but that means nothing ] What, you think we've all got fonts for an obscure dialect of a Greenlandic language? We're not made of money! [black destination board reading Excursion, with "off topic" chalked on] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete 75C Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I remember wooden departure boards at Southern stations ... ... but I'm not sure whether the following variant is a memory, or something I dreamt-up: A number of departure boards hanging from a single rail in a wall-mounted open-fronted cabinet, where the appropriate board was raised or lowered by a lever (or a series of levers) to one side of the cabinet. Did I dream this? Or does anyone else recall such a thing? I don't recall seeing any wall-mounted multiple board system, but this reminds me of probably the ultimate manual departure board system, formerly at Brighton station. http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__7748_path__0p115p212p923p.aspx http://gilesnews.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/willy-or-wont-he/ 3rd from bottom. Now that's a piece of furniture! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 28, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 28, 2012 I remember wooden departure boards at Southern stations ... ... but I'm not sure whether the following variant is a memory, or something I dreamt-up: A number of departure boards hanging from a single rail in a wall-mounted open-fronted cabinet, where the appropriate board was raised or lowered by a lever (or a series of levers) to one side of the cabinet. Did I dream this? Or does anyone else recall such a thing? Certainly not a dream. I can't immediately identify a location, but they were about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted December 28, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 28, 2012 Certainly not a dream. I can't immediately identify a location, but they were about. Nottingham Victoria comes to mind, but I'm not sure and can't find a photo at the moment. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted December 28, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2012 Certainly not a dream. I can't immediately identify a location, but they were about. It sounds a bit like the system used at Brighton and Waterloo for the main indicators but isn't a good descriptive match. Chichester once had a single panel version of the same. The plates being described are familiar to me also and IIRC were operated by means of either a simple pull-down lever unique to each panel (the name "flag" comes to mind but not to be confused with the more normal meaning of that word on the railway) or possibly using a punch-card system. Did Clapham Junction and East Croydon once use such a set-up? Those strike a chord in the caverns of a fading memory. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernboy Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 "It sounds a bit like the system used at Brighton and Waterloo for the main indicators but isn't a good descriptive match. Chichester once had a single panel version of the same." I'm not thinking of the extensive boards used at termini - but maybe something more likely used on a busy, medium sized station. It was definitely on the Southern though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
10800 Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I can recommend Jeff Duke's "stationsigns" products provided they are used within his advised limitations namely that they will fade if exposed to strong light and are supplied on photo paper which requires decent mounting if it is to remain flat. Within his site there is a section "Signs in situ" where you can see his signs on my own layout at "Platform 2" Also see "Platform 7" for some of his finger boards - maybe a little overscale but effective nonetheless. http://www.stationsigns.co.uk/page19.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted December 28, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 28, 2012 I reckon the totems are also a mite over-scale but carefully used it's hard to spot. And they are legible which isn't always true of the Scalescenes version depending on one's own printer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted December 28, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 28, 2012 Griffgriff " I remember them being used at Salisbury. " They were discovered in the back of a storeroom in the subway about 5 years ago covered in mould. We cleaned them up and three, for the Brighton, Cardiff and Waterloo Services are on display in the panel but the rest of the destinations were either so rotten or 98% unreadable that they were disposed of. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete 75C Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 For regional colours, stationsigns apparently do them (on card), as well as the totems.http://www.stationsigns.co.uk/page11.html and a nice green one visible at http://www.stationsigns.co.uk/page19.html Wow - I had no idea you could get these in 4mm scale and for them to be legible. Better than anything homemade that I could produce. Thanks for that - link bookmarked. Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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