A reader writes to say...
Dear Fact Compiler
As a devoted reader of your... (Get on with it! Ed).
Perhaps Eye should have an 'Historic Signs' section to compliment Pointless signs.
Obviously the pictures must originate from the railway of today, but the 'useful' information they contain must spring from our past.
Perhaps I could start with this York offering.
And here the useful, but dated, information.
UPDATE: This from an Eye reader in Upside Down Land...
Not only dated but wrong!
Surely the LNER became part of British
Railways in 1948 and only much later part of British Rail.
Nice sign
though and amazing that passengers couldn’t work out that it was dated
info without a helpful sign.
