Would these pictures from Hatfield (Herts) qualify as Pointless Sign entries?
The bridge is the only way onto and off the island platform that serves both fast and slow Down lines.
If we cannot pass the sign, then it is pointless having Down trains stop at Hatfield (except to pick up passengers from the previous train who have realised that theycannot leave the station).
With the slightly darker mood occasioned by the news that the BTP intends to award itself the authority to shoot passengers, perhaps all those pictured breaching railway bylaws should be dealt with 'Met stylee'?
Telegrammed by Leo Pink The Government's response to the Franchising Consultation appears to mark a clean break with the policies of the discredited Major, Blair and Brown years.
Or so it would appear from this:
A significant part of revenue growth that has occurred on past franchises has been due to macroeconomic growth rather than solely a result of good management on the part of the operator.
Quite a startling piece of revisionism that.
And then there is this:
Demand growth is largely outside an operator’s control.
Presumably demand shrink too, so National Express East Coast was a hapless victim of economic forces? And best of all this:
The devolution of rail services in Merseyside and London has had an extremely positive effect on patronage.
So state control beats market forces!
Should we read this as an apology from Petrol-head and his Marsham Street minions?