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Andy Burns

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Dec 29, 2023, 10:11:00 AM12/29/23
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Is a backwards "1" an old railway thing?

As per this old signal box lever frame?

<https://youtu.be/rebigRXeSRk?si=_NuiPnjIJtXDUzv6&t=326>

Colin Bignell

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Dec 29, 2023, 10:19:06 AM12/29/23
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As they say in the video, it looks like a mistake by whoever first
stencilled the numbers on.


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Andy Burns

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Dec 29, 2023, 11:05:46 AM12/29/23
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Colin Bignell wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> Is a backwards "1" an old railway thing?
>> As per this old signal box lever frame?
>> <https://youtu.be/rebigRXeSRk?si=_NuiPnjIJtXDUzv6&t=326>
>
> As they say in the video, it looks like a mistake by whoever first
> stencilled the numbers on.

Yeah it's funny, I paused the video at that point to bookmark a good
place to see the 1s, so I hadn't heard that part at the time ...



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