Striped painted platform edges in Scotland?

[Cowley]

Would anyone know when the practice of painting every other coping stone edge white started and finished in Scotland?

There’s a photo taken by Barry Adams here which shows what I mean. This is at Thurso in 1984.

37025 26/04/84

37025 at Thurso with 2K11 the 18.00 Thurso to Georgemas Junction on Thursday 26th April 1984. At Georgemas the coaches will be shunted onto the rear of the 18.00 Wick to Inverness.

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I can’t find any photos taken later than that, but I have seen the same effect at various stations, including Inverness.

 

[AndrewE]

Would anyone know when the practice of painting every other coping stone edge white started and finished in Scotland?

There’s a photo taken by Barry Adams here which shows what I mean. This is at Thurso in 1984.

37025 26/04/84

37025 at Thurso with 2K11 the 18.00 Thurso to Georgemas Junction on Thursday 26th April 1984. At Georgemas the coaches will be shunted onto the rear of the 18.00 Wick to Inverness.

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I can’t find any photos taken later than that, but I have seen the same effect at various stations, including Inverness.

Given that it's in Scotland it will be an economy measure: it halves the amount of whitewash that has to be bought - and maybe the man-hours needed to apply it!

 

[Cowley]

Given that it's in Scotland it will be an economy measure: it halves the amount of whitewash that has to be bought - and maybe the man-hours needed to apply it!

Being a painter myself, I’m with you on the saving of materials, but I’d argue that the extra cutting in would take longer than doing a continuous stripe…

 

[midland1]

Did not the practice start all over the UK in WW2 to save paint?

 

[hexagon789]

I don't know when the continuous stripe became the norm, but I believe the idea with the broken markings was to provide contrast in snowfall.

 

[Cowley]

I don't know when the continuous stripe became the norm, but I believe the idea with the broken markings was to provide contrast in snowfall.

Those were my thoughts when I saw it first.

I wondered if a memo went out in the mid 1980s to say that everything had to be standardised across the country after that?