I can remember in the 1960s at Bat And Ball (Sevenoaks) three things in particular:
(1) The horrible sour smell of the gas lamp in the booking office
(2) The letting-off of pigeons from the back platform
(3) There was a bell, just a ding not a brrring, on one platform [Down] which told you that a train was imminent. (I presume two dings for up but I was in short trousers.)
I was too young to appreciate much of this.
I know that electric bells, often substantial things, were used sometimes on the continent to warn passengers to come out of their cosy waiting rooms but was this an all-day and everyday occurrence in Blighty? I can't recall this anywhere else.
(1) The horrible sour smell of the gas lamp in the booking office
(2) The letting-off of pigeons from the back platform
(3) There was a bell, just a ding not a brrring, on one platform [Down] which told you that a train was imminent. (I presume two dings for up but I was in short trousers.)
I was too young to appreciate much of this.
I know that electric bells, often substantial things, were used sometimes on the continent to warn passengers to come out of their cosy waiting rooms but was this an all-day and everyday occurrence in Blighty? I can't recall this anywhere else.