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Striped painted platform edges in Scotland?

Cowley

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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.

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

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!
 

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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…
 

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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.
 

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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?
 

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