Wimbledon

I find strolling slowly up and down the platform a good way to pass the time while waiting for trains and when that palls, provided one is at a suitable station at the right time & on the right sort of day, one can always play aeroplanes, which I do at both Wimbledon and Earlsfield.

Both of which stations have now sprouted serious fences to stop one straying from the slow to the fast platforms and I suppose that the considerable expense was directed at hindering people from jumping in front of trains, which, apart from anything else, can be a considerable rush hour disturbance, disturbing the journeys of plenty of tired people on their way home, or perhaps to the pub. There might have been a crowd control angle at Wimbledon but that does not run at Earlsfield. So what is special about these two stations? Do they have fences at Surbiton or Vaushall?

It is not as if we have mental hospitals which they might be near these days - unlike the high bridge over the M5 at gmaps 50.682907, -3.511766, which at one time had both big fences and big mental hospital. Or at least that is what I thought, with fences well above waist height, but the fences do not look very big in streetview this morning. So is memory defective, streetview misleading or have the fences changed?

And what about the central platforms at places like Clapham Common tube station? Platforms which I always thought rather dangerous, although one only rarely hears of accidents.

For a similar view of Wimbledon before fence see http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/trio.html.