please empty your brain below
Everything changes and everything stays the same.

Blackout markings.,

Still Anon | 30.05.26 - 7:16 a.m. | #

"once you start seeing it you see it everywhere" (even if visually impaired) although they appear rather minimal at Beaulieu Park from your photo.

Frank F | 30.05.26 - 7:20 a.m. | #

Well observed, remarkable, good to know, and I, too, will now be unable to unsee them.

MartinG | 30.05.26 - 7:21 a.m. | #

Bright pink at Morden South was the colour-of-choice for First Capital Connect (FCC), operator of Thameslink and Great Northern routes from April 2006 to September 2014.
Thanks for explaining the reason for the stripes.

Retired from the City | 30.05.26 - 7:29 a.m. | #

Dulwich Hamlet FC pink or is that wishful thinking?

James | 30.05.26 - 8:09 a.m. | #

Thank you for resolving this mystery. I can attest how much it hurts when you bump into a pillar at a station. Good to know the RNIB and the station people got together to solve the problem. If only there was also a way to protect people like me from not looking where they're going.

Misspiggy | 30.05.26 - 9:54 a.m. | #

Thank god we can’t go back to the 1980s when millions of people were killed each year after bumping into lamp posts etc (though of course local authority street lights don’t carry these).

Kim | 30.05.26 - 10:18 a.m. | #

Though at Beauleigh Park the grey OHLE (electric wires) support mast is plain grey.

Kim | 30.05.26 - 10:21 a.m. | #

To extend the point about lamp-posts being quite OK without these markings, this is another one of those "rules" that becomes embedded in our risk-adverse H&S culture. One doubts any actual recorded issues or actual quantified amount of risk or harm took place; this is a solution in search of a problem. RNIB being another unelected third sector body making up rules that aren't legal regulations but everyone has to act as if they are the law (see: many other such cases). And of course no-one dares to question whether such rules actually help anybody, if the cost is worth the benefit gained, because doing so (and diverting from the perceived wisdom of the masses) might make you "wrong" but no one gets fired for copying what everyone else does.

Sure in this case it's a fairly basic inoffensive outcome but this type of approach is systemic within the built environment sector and leads to all the more extreme examples like fish discos, bat tunnels, high speed trains behind walls, energy producers paid not to produce energy, interest groups being paid by the Government to object to projects being delivered by the same Government, etc...

Green Ninja | 30.05.26 - 12:52 p.m. | #

When you’re able-bodied you may not think twice about measures designed to help those who aren’t (they don’t actually impinge on your daily life), but if you have an accident or a problem affecting your mobility or sight you might just be glad of the DDA. Bat tunnels have nothing to do with it.

Labourer | 30.05.26 - 2:54 p.m. | #

What Green Ninja appears to be describing, and for some reason taking great offence to, is statutory instruments which is an established process in law to deal with the impracticality of parliament ratifying every rule that needs to be implemented.

Typically, a statutory instrument is a set of rules established by an appropriate professional body but can only come into law with the approval of the appropriate minister. So, to take one example, it is probably a medically qualified professional body that recommends which drugs are categorised A, B and C and the home secretary is free to overrule them and MPs can take the necessary action in parliament if they believe the provisions of a statutory instrument are inappropriate. This rarely happens as most people including MPs recognise that the appropriate body (RSPCA, RNIB etc) is best placed to come up with recommendations for the minister to approve or not. By this means, parliament is not bogged down in debating things about which most MPs are not really qualified to speak about and aren't really that interested in anyway.

I believe the TfL byelaws are implemented by means of a statutory instrument. Do we really need a debate in parliament including Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland MPs to approve these byelaws?

Pedantic of Purley | 30.05.26 - 5:13 p.m. | #

I can attest that these bands are really helpful.

Thanks everyone for support :)

Michael | 30.05.26 - 6:46 p.m. | #

Need stripes in the gaps between platforms and trains. Especially on Liz eastbound at Ealing Broadway, my one and only ever trip event getting on a train.

Strabismus | 31.05.26 - 1:35 p.m. | #











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