alxndr
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(Hopefully this is the right section.)
This is something which has been bugging me for a little while, and no one seems to be able to give me an answer aside from "it's the railway", so hopefully someone here will be able to satisfy my curiosity.
In our area we generally have the chain sprayed onto the web of the rail in yellow, with half chain distances marked in between with the symbol below:
On that occasion it was sprayed onto the wall adjacent, and also included quarter markings, which were rather logically shown with "1/4" and "3/4". Ignore the white writing behind it.
The only thing I can possibly think of is that the symbol is in fact the letters "AI", and is used because they form the middle of the word "chain", but perhaps I'm looking too far into it.
This is something which has been bugging me for a little while, and no one seems to be able to give me an answer aside from "it's the railway", so hopefully someone here will be able to satisfy my curiosity.
In our area we generally have the chain sprayed onto the web of the rail in yellow, with half chain distances marked in between with the symbol below:
On that occasion it was sprayed onto the wall adjacent, and also included quarter markings, which were rather logically shown with "1/4" and "3/4". Ignore the white writing behind it.
The only thing I can possibly think of is that the symbol is in fact the letters "AI", and is used because they form the middle of the word "chain", but perhaps I'm looking too far into it.
