The Larne-bound platform at Whitehead station the day after the collapse:
And after the debris was cleared away:
Contrast this with the ordered but very lengthy (around 6 months) rebuilding of the platforms at Deptford Bridge DLR station to allow 3-car trains to run. This photo taken last Sunday shows the finished result - still closed off to passengers but bizarrely displaying an information board which includes out of date Christmas and New Year service information...
Nowadays of course many metro systems use platform edge doors, the Jubilee Line being one example. Even these do not provide absolute safety as this incident in Shanghai demonstrated.
2 comments:
I like these - particularly the last photo.
How you doing? My uncle in Saffron Walden showed us a couple of arrows on the wall in town. They were at elbow-height, and beautifully painted.
He told us they were placed on the walls in 1917. Plans were made to evacuate the whole of the East Coast, should the Germans invade. The evacuation route (involving the move of Colchester to Oxfordshire) was to be via the back routes, so that the army could move to the coast by the main routes. Local people were commissioned to learn where the arrows were, so that they could follow them. There were hundreds. Heard this story?
I had no idea! It's been a few years since I was last in Saffron, I feel a return trip coming on... thanks for the tip!
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