Aberdeen station concourse, 1989
This is another view of Aberdeen station concourse from my office window, taken a few weeks before I moved to Inverness.
The gleaming terrazzo tiles, installed in the first flush of the Chris Green ScotRail era, had seemed a good idea at the time; but when wet they were like a skating rink.
The electronic departure board was also a damned nuisance. Parts of it would stick, while it also had a predilection for transposing bits of text into different places. We used to put up an advert for Red Star Parcels - 'Packages in your customer's hands within hours'. With some of the message having migrated across the board, puzzled travellers saw that the 15:05 departure wasn't going to Glasgow Queen Street but 'Customer's Hands'.
Aberdeen station concourse, 1989
This is another view of Aberdeen station concourse from my office window, taken a few weeks before I moved to Inverness.
The gleaming terrazzo tiles, installed in the first flush of the Chris Green ScotRail era, had seemed a good idea at the time; but when wet they were like a skating rink.
The electronic departure board was also a damned nuisance. Parts of it would stick, while it also had a predilection for transposing bits of text into different places. We used to put up an advert for Red Star Parcels - 'Packages in your customer's hands within hours'. With some of the message having migrated across the board, puzzled travellers saw that the 15:05 departure wasn't going to Glasgow Queen Street but 'Customer's Hands'.