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Vertically mounted Alpha 3's!
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2026 9:12 pm
by FrontSideBus
Was on a train heading out of Manchester Picadilly today and I noticed several of these Thorn Alpha 3's mounted vertically on columns post top style!
I never managed to get a photo as I was on a speeding train but I had a look on Google Streetview and you can see a couple of them:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/G8DtY5Hn6H8cNvCV8
What the actual fuck?
Re: Vertically mounted Alpha 3's!
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2026 9:23 pm
by Andy
That really is bizarre!
I even lived a few streets from there back in the late 1990s but never noticed them.
Re: Vertically mounted Alpha 3's!
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2026 10:00 pm
by AgentHalogen_87
What on earth were they trying to achieve with that? Unless there was some huge statue that's been removed they can't have been very useful
Re: Vertically mounted Alpha 3's!
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2026 12:56 pm
by FrontSideBus
I doubt it in a train maintenance depot lol.
Re: Vertically mounted Alpha 3's!
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2026 7:23 pm
by Ash
I can imagine for a yard of this size somebody came up with a desire to put them on high incline (45deg) brackets. Then they figured that they dont have any, but how much will it matter if they put the lanterns like this ?