Tuesday 20 July 2010

I wrote down everything I saw from the train that was yellow.

(I feel like I spend quite a lot of time on trains on my own. This was between London and Grantham, it was an exercise in ...something. Inconsistency and repetition, mostly. I kind of find it funny.)

Yellow line painted along the edge of a platform,
Yellow sign at the entrance to a tunnel as we leave it

Another line along a platform,
a salt and grit bin,
a tariff sign in a car park

some ragwort flowers

more ragwort

McDonalds and Subway signs,
another platform line, more car park signs

ragwort again
platform line
ragwort.

Paintwork on a train going in the other direction,
some graffiti under a bridge, a sign at a junction

a flag outside a showroom,
a sign on the door of an electricity terminal

Ragwort.
Another passing train, another platform line, more ragwort,
some machinery at the side of the track

Ragwort,
a field of ragwort.

Platform edge, again.
Ragwort,
a sign by the side of the track with a number 25 on it,
some fencing at a building site, the end of a passing train, the back of an ambulance.

Car parking barriers.
The roof of a children's push along car on a balcony.

Some flowers in a allotment,
number plates outside a car showroom, graffiti.

Another train.

Platform edge at Hitchin.
Some reels of cable at the side of the track.

Some crash barriers in a car park, the edge of a road sign, some stacked skips.

A sign with a number 34 on.

A metal frame around the top of a pick-up truck,
a burglar alarm on a house,
platform edge,
reflective stripes on a service vehicle,
a sign with a number 37 on,
ragwort.

Some paint on a telegraph pole.

Number plates on a housing estate,
platform egde,
burglar alarm.

Emergency telephone next to the track,
Signs at a sewage works,
ragwort.

Showjumping fences.

Ragwort, graffiti,
signs on some warehouses, numbering doors.

Warning signs at the base of a pylon,
another number.

Ragwort.
A road sign.

Writing on a sign for a builders' merchants, platform edge, ragwort, train end ragwort.

Yellow cover over a trailer.
Yellow box thing,
van at a level crossing,
ragwort,
bollards on a traffic island, graffiti under a bridge,
ragwort.

Platform edge.
Road markings,
piles of plastic tubing.

Graffiti, ragwort, graffiti, ragwort.
Passing train.

Signs on telegraph poles,
something on top of a block of concrete,
ragwort, salt and grit bin, ragwort.

More parked machinery.

Salt and grit bin, writing on lorries, entrance to a warehouse,
a bit of yellow plastic.

Danger of death sign,
graffiti,
danger unsafe roof sign on some garages,
end of another train, another sign about electrocution.

Kwik-Fit sign,
notices on a multi-storey car park,
a yellow car,
paint on the rails.

No trespassing sign on a building site,
burglar alarm, CCTV sign in a station car park, rear number plates, a yellow car.
A man with a yellow shirt on a billboard.
The handrail on the way out of Peterbrough station, a painted barrier, a salt and grit bin.

The back of a parked fire engine,
car park barriers,
stripes on a Network Rail building.
Parked freight trains, paint on a lamp post.

A generator and a floodlight,
more freight trains,
vehicles on a building site.

A blind in a window,
a house painted yellow.

Stripes on post office lorries.

Danger sign at a level crossing,
ragwort,
danger sign at a level crossing.

Number plates at a caravan site, a Jet station,
a crane.

Ragwort.

A danger sign at a power station.

Ragwort.

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