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Why Japan’s Rail Workers Can’t Stop Pointing at Things – Atlas Obscura

Why Japan’s Rail Workers Can’t Stop Pointing at Things – Atlas Obscura

Train conductors, drivers and station staff play an important role in the safe and efficient operation of the lines; a key aspect of which is the variety of physical gestures and vocal calls that they perform while undertaking their duties. While these might strike visitors as silly, the movements and shouts are a Japanese-innovated industrial safety method known as pointing-and-calling; a system that reduces workplace errors by up to 85 percent.

British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs – ianVisits – London news and events

British Rail’s short experiment with travelling pubs – ianVisits – London news and events

It’s May 1949 and British Rail was showing off its latest idea to please the public – a travelling pub.

Not a buffet car or restaurant, but a “tavern car” – a full on pub on wheels, in a mock-tudor appearance, with fake brick walls on the outside, and even a pub sign on the door.

How mid century British this seems.