Leeds, 1970 Departure board Every half hour or so, a BR employee would appear with a crank handle and wind it on a bit #Leeds #Yorkshire 📷 Unknown - ThreadSky

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elwick70.bsky.social • 29 days ago

Leeds, 1970

Departure board

Every half hour or so, a BR employee would appear with a crank handle and wind it on a bit

#Leeds #Yorkshire

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hs4000.bsky.social•29 days ago

Where did they put " service cancelled " "service 160 minutes late" ect.

jedkendray.bsky.social•29 days ago

I remember when York had those.

alanjstedman.bsky.social•28 days ago

Ahhhh, bring back the old wooden boards that the platform staff used to change for the next train due in!

lady-stormrider.bsky.social•25 days ago

As well as the bus timetables on the same board - wow!

dean426.bsky.social•29 days ago

I remember the chalk board on the concourse at Exeter St Davids!

martymcd.bsky.social•29 days ago

Am old enough to remember, a decade after thar image was taken, I'm thinking Havant, they still had a guy who's job it was to put up wooden fingerpost signs detailing the destination and intermediate station stops of the arriving services