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From: "Clive D. W. Feather" <clive@on-the-train.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: uk.transport.london
Subject: Re: Purple light on Bakerloo line, Baker Street
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:38:17 +0000
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In article <yYj7vvEGRdF8EwWW@purplehaze.freeserve.co.uk>, ">Kat<" 
<$news$@kat22.clara.co.uk> writes
>Sorry, I wasn't very clear.. why is a trip-cock tester light sometimes 
>purple and sometimes lunar white and what circumstances dictate which 
>colour should be used? Is it anything to do with the background it's 
>mounted on?

Oh, right.

There's nothing in any of the manuals that I have that specifies what 
colour should be used when. I would not be surprised to find that the 
original decision was made on a local (or pre-nationalisation company) 
level.

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