Just ticking away in the background’: old Euston departures board lives on in millionaire’s Margate warehouse
Board continues to show live updates in Jeremy Hosking’s storage space which will open to public next weekend:
In a cavernous concrete warehouse on an industrial estate outside Margate in
Kent, an enormous screen flickers, day and night, telling the times of train services from north London to Manchester Piccadilly and Glasgow Central and Tring.
Whether or not anyone is there to see it, the 22-metre-wide board never stops flashing up live, genuine updates of departures by West Midlands Railway or service disruptions on Avanti West Coast services.
This, until recently, was the main departure board of Euston station...
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