So what's this a picture of then?

[Cmitchell]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38603329@N07/

Background knowledge:-
Walked down the Tissington Trail in Derbyshire from Tissington to Ashbourne.
This was beside the track at the Tissington end.
The Tissington Trail used to be a railway line, the full length of which went from Buxton to Ashbourne.
Here's the mystery:- Where it's pointing to left is actually downhill all the way to Ashbourne (except where there was a viaduct taken out that now makes a steep downward, then upward slope, but this is MUCH further down the line)

So what is this artefact? And why does it "suggest" it's uphill that way when it is not?

Ideally need to know this tonight.
All help much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Mitchell

[ludwig]

I know that path well CMitchell, but I'm not sure of the answer. This is just a guess but surely it's just showing the gradient either side of the marker. I don't know why it's the wrong way round. Perhaps they just made them all the same way round sloping down from left to right and it's just to indicate an incline rather than the direction of it.

[ludwig]

Look what I just found...

http://www.railsigns.co.uk/sect24page1/sect24p age1.html

[sddsddean]

As said, its a gradient indicator, but it has obviously been moved. They would not be sited right against a platform edge. If the gradient did change midway through a station, it was usual practice to put them between the lines (in a twin track station) or on the opposite side from the platform in a single track station.

[Cmitchell]

Thanks for all answers.

Yep Ludwig I'm sure it's a gradient sign and I also found same website. I think said sign has probably been moved from the opposite side for some reason. Just makes one wonder why it was moved, probably just to baffle people like me! So are you local or do you visit Derbyshire? Anyway thanks again guys.

sddsddean, yep as mentioned above I also think the sign was moved from the opposite side. I am blonde though and the rest of your message lost me. Thanks anyway. i know you're probably right.......whatever you meant.

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