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Old May 25th 10, 12:42 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Mizter T Mizter T is offline
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Default Woops - Sign on Haggerston ELL - Platform 1

On May 25, 11:50*am, Ivor The Engine
wrote:

On Tue, 25 May 2010 03:06:25 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T
wrote:
On May 25, 10:38*am, CJB wrote:
Is Haggerston really to the north of Dalston? Or have they made a
mistake? I think signs at other nearby stations may be the same.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/50503868@N03/4637990759/


The sign doesn't actually claim any direction is north (it's you who's
drawn on the "N") - the sign is a diagramattic representation of the
ELL


It's in the wrong direction anyway, pointing west, not north!


Well, if Haggerston was 'pointing south' then the arrow could be said
to be pointing east - the point of course is that the sign is just a
diagrammatic representation of the routes from that station, rather
than a geographically accurate representation.


The sign shows that one can travel north from Haggerston and change at
Dalston onto the NLL.


I'm pleased, for clarity, to see that it has a small 'walk' symbol
between the Dalston stations.

What happens in May - completely new signage, or a 'sticky label'
showing links at Canonbury and H&L? * I know they need to be accurate
but this is a pretty short term arrangement.


I think the current signs actually are an 'all over' sticky label
arrangements (i.e. ones that cover the entire sign) - underneath is
the permanent signage which shows both the extensions to H&I and also
to Claphan Jn via Peckham.