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Re: Rare Roadsigns

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The old faded T junction sign that i posted last year near me has a newer give way sign beyond it. My thoughts are that it has been forgotten about as it is partially hidden when trees are in leaf.

I don't seem to see many of the newer style ones but this one i pass regularly. https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3701504 ... 384!8i8192
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Here's another of the newer ones, Rambo https://maps.app.goo.gl/eA1NV7zFXub6BUFv6 although it should be a standard 'side road' sign. It was only put in after the mini roundabout was installed (last year, I think).

There's a correct sign for the junction when approaching from the opposite direction https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tf5XjN1bfeAFXsab9
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Talking of rare signs - According to "Know Your Traffic Signs", the "worded warning sign" can, as well as things like "Ford" and "Gate" that we've all seen, read "No smoking". I've never seen one of these. I can't see why it would ever be installed as a permanent sign. I've seen "no smoking" signs around roadworks for gas main works, but never as a red triangle road sign - usually just the crossed out cigarette in a circle. Has anyone seen one of these?
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Just remembered an unusual sign I saw at Christmas. Completely forgot about it as it was a very long stressful journey.

We were coming down the A19/A168 near Thirsk and there was something about an Aviation Control Zone... :-? :?:
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Big Nick wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 18:48 Just remembered an unusual sign I saw at Christmas. Completely forgot about it as it was a very long stressful journey.

We were coming down the A19/A168 near Thirsk and there was something about an Aviation Control Zone... :-? :?:
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Big L wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 18:59
Big Nick wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 18:48 Just remembered an unusual sign I saw at Christmas. Completely forgot about it as it was a very long stressful journey.

We were coming down the A19/A168 near Thirsk and there was something about an Aviation Control Zone... :-? :?:
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Pilgrim Dan wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 20:27
Big L wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 18:59
Big Nick wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 18:48 Just remembered an unusual sign I saw at Christmas. Completely forgot about it as it was a very long stressful journey.

We were coming down the A19/A168 near Thirsk and there was something about an Aviation Control Zone... :-? :?:
Avian flu?
Avian flu sign shown in first picture of this article
That looks very similar. Thanks!
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Not a road sign per se, but a rare sign beside the M74: a direction sign to a Lucy Box. I don't recall seeing a sign like it elsewhere. Do others exist?
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swissferry wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 20:01 Not a road sign per se, but a rare sign beside the M74: a direction sign to a Lucy Box. I don't recall seeing a sign like it elsewhere. Do others exist?
What is a Lucy Box?
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SouthWest Philip wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 21:36
swissferry wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 20:01 Not a road sign per se, but a rare sign beside the M74: a direction sign to a Lucy Box. I don't recall seeing a sign like it elsewhere. Do others exist?
What is a Lucy Box?
I believe its an electricity box.
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swissferry wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 22:00
SouthWest Philip wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 21:36
swissferry wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 20:01 Not a road sign per se, but a rare sign beside the M74: a direction sign to a Lucy Box. I don't recall seeing a sign like it elsewhere. Do others exist?
What is a Lucy Box?
I believe its an electricity box.
I guess it's this box (next to the fence - and probably connected to the transformer on the pole in the field) - the sign is telling you not to try and climb up the bank, but to go to the end of the cutting and walk back along the top. Presumably access is needed rarely enough that it's not worth constructing steps up to it.

It seems a bit odd to specify "walk 200m" - presumably the person needing access arrived in a vehicle, so it would make more sense to move their vehicle 200m along the road then walk back rather than walking 400m there and back.
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SouthWest Philip wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 21:36
swissferry wrote: Sat Jan 22, 2022 20:01 Not a road sign per se, but a rare sign beside the M74: a direction sign to a Lucy Box. I don't recall seeing a sign like it elsewhere. Do others exist?
What is a Lucy Box?
The biggest makers of roadside electricity boxes and streetlamps in the early days were the Lucy Foundry in Oxford from around 1905. Today Lucy Group Ltd still produce modern versions of these boxes.
https://www.lucyzodion.com/
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A sign and plate newly-installed on the road out of Bethel as part of the Caernarfon bypass works. The sign probably isnt too uncommon but there can't be many plates with this wording, certainly not brand-new installations:
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The glider site is background-right in this photo; I tried to get the windsock but couldn't squeeze it in.

There did not used to be any signs for this but the bypass will run under the approach/overshoot, hence the need for warning. I didn't know of this site before seeing this new sign but I believe it's microlights rather than gliders. I would expect there to be similar signs on the main bypass carriageway as well.

Edit: It's Cae Mawr airfield, operated by the Snowdonia Light Flyers Club. A good aerial photo on their site that shows how close the new bypass will be to their site https://www.snowdonialightflyers.club/where-we-are
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I can't say I've seen too many No Motorcycles sign.
https://goo.gl/maps/TDG8Yycdm8NEUfhB6

Are there many of these about?
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Kevin Roads wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 13:52 A sign and plate newly-installed on the road out of Bethel as part of the Caernarfon bypass works. The sign probably isnt too uncommon but there can't be many plates with this wording, certainly not brand-new installations:

20220201_132802.jpg

The glider site is background-right in this photo; I tried to get the windsock but couldn't squeeze it in.

There did not used to be any signs for this but the bypass will run under the approach/overshoot, hence the need for warning. I didn't know of this site before seeing this new sign but I believe it's microlights rather than gliders. I would expect there to be similar signs on the main bypass carriageway as well.
Love the Welsh respelling and pluralisation of the loanword. 🙂. Kind of reminds me of the service station we passed that advertised "Brêcs, Teiars, Siocs, Egsosts". 😂
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Is "Beware of Waves" a unique qualifying plate? If not it must be rare. Shown here at Porthmellon. Qualifying a Diag. 555 rather than a Diag. 562. Allowing of course that there is another one approaching from the other direction. Follow the road down in this time-frame and it's high tide and you can see the beach material deposited on the road.
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Found another No motorcyles sign
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Kevin Roads wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 13:52 A sign and plate newly-installed on the road out of Bethel as part of the Caernarfon bypass works. The sign probably isn't too uncommon but there can't be many plates with this wording, certainly not brand-new installations:

20220201_132802.jpg
There's another one on the A449 southbound between the Raglan junction and the Usk junction.

https://goo.gl/maps/Nd2FWsgtL6jHVJ9DA
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Octaviadriver wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 14:54
Kevin Roads wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 13:52 A sign and plate newly-installed on the road out of Bethel as part of the Caernarfon bypass works. The sign probably isn't too uncommon but there can't be many plates with this wording, certainly not brand-new installations:

20220201_132802.jpg
There's another one on the A449 southbound between the Raglan junction and the Usk junction.

https://goo.gl/maps/Nd2FWsgtL6jHVJ9DA
I love the way that the Welsh word for gliders is the English word re-spelled and pluralised in the Welsh way 😊
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Chris Bertram wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 18:29
Octaviadriver wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 14:54
Kevin Roads wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 13:52 A sign and plate newly-installed on the road out of Bethel as part of the Caernarfon bypass works. The sign probably isn't too uncommon but there can't be many plates with this wording, certainly not brand-new installations:

20220201_132802.jpg
There's another one on the A449 southbound between the Raglan junction and the Usk junction.

https://goo.gl/maps/Nd2FWsgtL6jHVJ9DA
I love the way that the Welsh word for gliders is the English word re-spelled and pluralised in the Welsh way 😊
It seems to be common for loan words, a Pwdding sign amused me & my Dad in a Welsh Sainsbury's once.
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